NCAPP AP Teachers’ Summer Refresher Series
Zoom Sessions, July 12-15; July 19-22; July 26-29
Attention NC AP Teachers - Want to get re-energized with fellow AP teachers after a difficult year? Looking for some inspiration? Look no further….The North Carolina Advanced Placement Partnership is excited to offer a FREE session series led by North Carolina AP teachers, for North Carolina’s AP teachers!
Teachers can attend virtual sessions specific to their AP course to discuss strategies designed to strengthen AP instruction and improve student learning through AP tool integration and support. NCAPP will pay all registration costs, and teachers may attend as many as they wish.
What to expect:
Click HERE for the Course Session Catalog and Registration Links (starts on p. 2)
NCAPP Purpose
The mission of the Partnership between College Board and the state of North Carolina is to prepare, inspire, and connect students to postsecondary success and opportunity, with a particular focus on minority students and students who are underrepresented in postsecondary education. The purpose of the Partnership is therefore to assist in improving college readiness of secondary students and to assist secondary schools to ensure that students have access to high-quality, rigorous academics with a focus on access to Advanced Placement courses.
Questions? Email Michelle Lourcey at mlourcey@collegeboard.org.
Zoom Sessions, July 12-15; July 19-22; July 26-29
Attention NC AP Teachers - Want to get re-energized with fellow AP teachers after a difficult year? Looking for some inspiration? Look no further….The North Carolina Advanced Placement Partnership is excited to offer a FREE session series led by North Carolina AP teachers, for North Carolina’s AP teachers!
Teachers can attend virtual sessions specific to their AP course to discuss strategies designed to strengthen AP instruction and improve student learning through AP tool integration and support. NCAPP will pay all registration costs, and teachers may attend as many as they wish.
What to expect:
- 90-minute Zoom sessions designed by successful NC AP teachers who want to collaborate and connect with other NC AP teachers
- Register for one, two, three or four sessions -- whatever looks interesting to you!
- Beginning AP teachers can register for Experienced AP teacher sessions and vice versa.
- Participants will receive a printed Course and Exam Description binder if registered (be advised that we will try, but it may not arrive prior to the session dates).
- Participants who complete the survey at the end of each session will receive a certificate of participation by August 30, 2021.
Click HERE for the Course Session Catalog and Registration Links (starts on p. 2)
NCAPP Purpose
The mission of the Partnership between College Board and the state of North Carolina is to prepare, inspire, and connect students to postsecondary success and opportunity, with a particular focus on minority students and students who are underrepresented in postsecondary education. The purpose of the Partnership is therefore to assist in improving college readiness of secondary students and to assist secondary schools to ensure that students have access to high-quality, rigorous academics with a focus on access to Advanced Placement courses.
Questions? Email Michelle Lourcey at mlourcey@collegeboard.org.
Resources and Information for Advanced Placement
What we are reading/watching ...
- New Analyses of AP Scores of 1 and 2 - College Board, March 2021
- A Broader View of College Readiness - By Eric Johnson and Dante A. Ciampaglia; The Elective, April 22, 2021
- What I Learned in 23 Years Ranking America's Most Challenging High School - By Jay Mathews, Education Next; March, 2021
- How is Richlands High School using Advanced Placement to prep students for success? - By Lowell Matthews, Jr., ExcelinEd; Jan. 12, 2021
- District aims to increase Black students and English Language Learners in AP courses - By Mollie Belt, The Dallas Examiner; Jan. 11, 2021
- Resource: From Tails to Heads: Building Momentum for Postsecondary Success; Study from Education Strategy Group; Authored by Ryan Reyna and Lauren Norton
- AP versus the excellence gap - By Chester E. Finn, Jr., Fordham Institute; 2.12.2020
- Inequities in Advanced Coursework: What's Driving Them and What Leaders Can Do - Jan. 2020, The Education Trust
- E(RACE)ING INEQUITIES, The State of Racial Equity in North Carolina Public Schools - By Nicholas P. Triplett, PH.D | James E. Ford, Report 2019, CREED
- North Carolina's Leaky Education Pipeline - Series from EdNC
- The Opportunity Myth - TNTP, 2018
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"It is the intent of the State of North Carolina to enhance accessibility and encourage students to enroll in and successfully complete more rigorous advanced courses to enable success in post-secondary education for all students. The North Carolina State Board of Education shall seek a partner to form the North Carolina Advanced Placement Partnership, hereinafter referred to as Partnership, to assist in improving college readiness of secondary students and to assist secondary schools to ensure that students have access to high-quality, rigorous academics with a focus on access to Advanced Placement courses (G.S. 115C-174.26).”