Recent news and events from NCAPP
NCAPP AP Symposium Series - October professional development information (new)
Symposium Series registration link (new)
Symposium Series registration link (new)
Session Overviews
Session 1 Description: Teaching Units 3 through 5 with Focused Instruction and Assessments – Units 1 and 2 of the Course and Exam Descriptions allow teachers to assess and accelerate student learning. Units 3 through 5 build on this learning and further scaffold student progress in skill development. In this session, AP teachers will discuss how the next three units in the Course and Exam Description serve as a way for AP teachers to focus AP instruction on “required course content” while assessing student skills frequently to inform instruction.
Session 2 Description: Teaching Challenging Topics in Units 3 through 5 -- Each AP course has its tricky topics either in what resources to use or what ways are best to teach students a challenging concept. In this session, AP teachers will discuss specific challenging and/or tricky Topics in Units 3 through 5 of the Course and Exam Description and leave the session with details on how to address the tricky and the challenging.
Session 1 Description: Teaching Units 3 through 5 with Focused Instruction and Assessments – Units 1 and 2 of the Course and Exam Descriptions allow teachers to assess and accelerate student learning. Units 3 through 5 build on this learning and further scaffold student progress in skill development. In this session, AP teachers will discuss how the next three units in the Course and Exam Description serve as a way for AP teachers to focus AP instruction on “required course content” while assessing student skills frequently to inform instruction.
Session 2 Description: Teaching Challenging Topics in Units 3 through 5 -- Each AP course has its tricky topics either in what resources to use or what ways are best to teach students a challenging concept. In this session, AP teachers will discuss specific challenging and/or tricky Topics in Units 3 through 5 of the Course and Exam Description and leave the session with details on how to address the tricky and the challenging.
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).”