2024 Auburn University AP Summer Institute will offer AP teacher in-person workshops:

The AP® Summer Institute (APSI) Workshop is endorsed by College Board and designed to aid the professional development of teachers, counselors, and administrators who are involved with Advanced Placement (AP®) courses. Workshops are designed for teachers who are teaching an Advanced Placement course for the first time and for experienced teachers desiring refresher training. Topics include subject matter content, test construction, pupil and teacher selection, College Board policies and procedures, and preparation and grading of AP tests.

All workshop instructors will be College Board Endorsed Consultants who have current information regarding AP® policies, including updates on any exam changes that may be occurring.

APSI is a collaborative effort between:

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*College Board, AP, Advanced Placement Program, AP Vertical Teams, Pre-AP and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. Used with permission.

2024 Auburn University AP Summer Institute will offer AP teacher in-person workshops:
Week 1: July 8-11, 2024 – IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS
  • AP US Government and Politics New and Experienced
  • AP English Language and Composition New and Experienced
  • AP English Literature and Composition New and Experienced
  • AP Psychology New and Experienced
  • AP Art and Design
Week 2: July 15-18, 2024 – IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS
  • AP Biology New
  • AP Biology Experienced
  • AP Chemistry New
  • AP Chemistry Experienced
  • AP Physics 1 New and Experienced
  • AP Environmental Sciences New and Experienced
  • AP Precalculus

Enrollment in each workshop is limited and these offerings are contingent upon sufficient demand. If you wish to attend, register early to ensure that your subject area will be offered and that you will have a seat in the class. Enrollment is not complete until Purchase Order, payment by check, or scholarship information is provided.

APSI Scholarships offered by the College Board for AP teachers:
  1. AP Fellows: For teachers at schools with a majority underrepresented minority and/or low-income student population
    1. Scholarship amount: $1,000 max.
    2. Eligible AP subjects: All AP subjects EXCEPT AP Capstone (Seminar and Research)

  2. AP Rural Fellows APSI Scholarship: For teachers at rural schools
    1. Scholarship amount: $1,500 max.
    2. Eligible AP subjects: All AP subjects EXCEPT AP Capstone (Seminar and Research)

  3. AP Capstone APSI Fee Waiver: For teachers who are planning to attend the AP Capstone summer professional development event.
    1. Scholarship amount by way of a Fee Waiver code to cover the cost of tuition.
    2. Eligible AP subjects: ONLY AP Capstone (Seminar and Research)

Learn more about the College Board scholarships and access application links at the APSI Scholarship website.

Kellye Self
Kellye Self
U.S. Government and Politics

Kellye S. Self teaches Advanced Placement U.S. Government & Politics at Naples Middle/High School in Naples, Italy. She has been a classroom teacher for 33 years and has taught the Advanced Placement course for 16 years, formerly teaching at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama.

Kellye has been involved with curriculum development and teacher professional development for numerous organizations including A+ College Ready in Alabama, iCivics/Study Edge, the Street Law Institute and the Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Institute.

Kellye has been an A.P. reader since 2011 and has served in a leadership role for many years, as a table leader, early table leader and question leader.

Kellye also co-moderates and co-administers a Facebook community of over 5000 Advanced Placement U.S. Government teachers from around the world.

Kellye believes that all learners are capable of growth and mastery of complex material when properly guided and inspired. She regularly attends and leads high quality professional development sessions where teachers will walk away with classroom ready resources and hands-on practice as a student.

Kellye has a B.S. in History, with a minor in Political Science, and M.A.Ed. degree in Secondary Social Science Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Elizabeth Hall
English Language and Composition

Bio coming soon.

Elizabeth Davis
Elizabeth Davis
English Literature and Composition

Elizabeth Davis has served as a College Board Consultant since 2001 and has taught Advanced Placement, honors, and on-level junior and senior English, and served as English Department chair at two high schools throughout her career. She participated in curriculum development and planning for the vertical team, articulating skills across the grade levels.

Elizabeth served as a reader for the AP Language exam and is currently an AP Literature reader. She has co-authored two AP English textbooks for Bedford Publishing Company, Ideas in Argument and Ideas in Literature. In addition, she worked in collaboration with The College Board in developing English Literature resources for the Course and Exam Description (CED) as a member of the Instructional Design Team.

Having taught both AP English Literature and AP English Language has deepened her understanding of the crossover skills between these two courses and the preparatory courses before them. This work has reinforced the importance of teaching writing and analysis at all levels of the vertical team, intentionally spiraling and scaffolding instruction of skills.

Outside the classroom, Elizabeth enjoys being a wife, a mother of two young men and their lovely brides, a grandmother, a spoiler of dogs, Texas Aggie sports fan, and a singer in her church choir and ensembles.

Garry Shriver
Garry Shriver
Psychology

Garry Shriver has taught five AP subjects and two International Baccalaureate subjects, including IB Psychology, during his 32 years as a public-school teacher in the Memphis, TN area. Over his career Mr. Shriver has taught AP Psychology for 22 years, served the College Board as a reader and table leader for the AP Psychology exam for 12 years, participated as a multiple-choice question writer for the AP Psychology exam and was a member of the national development committee creating the national Psychology Praxis exam for the Educational Testing Service.

Most recently, Mr. Shriver has served on the Free Response Rubric Development Committee for the national exam. While working for Shelby County Schools, Mr. Shriver was a district workshop leader and psychology curriculum writer. He was the social studies department chair and Advanced Placement department chair at Bolton High School for 30 years. He has been a three-time National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship recipient and has served on numerous Superintendents' Advisory committees including the Tennessee Governor's Round Table for Education.

After 34 years in public education, Mr. Shriver now teaches at St. Agnes Academy in Memphis, TN. In his spare time, he hosts the How To Love Lit literature podcast with his wife, Christy, an AP English Language teacher and APSI consultant. He also works as a professional musician in the Memphis area.

Susan Altman
Susan Altman
Art and Design

Susan Altman is a Professor and Assistant Chairperson in the Visual, Performing and Media Arts Department at Middlesex College in Edison, New Jersey. She has over 35 years of experience in teaching studio foundations at the college level including Drawing, 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Design. In addition to teaching college courses, for 30 years she has taught middle school students and gifted and talented high school students for college credit as part of the Middlesex County Arts and Ed Center. Her research in the pedagogy of teaching studio art and her passion for teaching is enthusiastically shared with her AP® colleagues to bring successful strategies to their studio classrooms. She loves working with you; sharing new ideas, making art, and learning together to help your students succeed in the AP® Art and Design course.

As a College Board endorsed consultant to the AP® in Art and Design, she is a reader for the AP® Art and Design Exam, a Table Leader, and is actively teaching professional development workshops to both new and experienced AP® teachers. As a founding member, and current Director of the Center for the Enrichment of Learning and Teaching at Middlesex, she is active in professional development across disciplines. Her pedagogical research has been presented at national and international conferences including the College Art Association, FATE - Foundations in Art Theory and Education and The Lilly Conference for Brain Based Teaching and Learning.

Susan Altman received her BFA in Printmaking from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art. She has an active studio practice in drawing and printmaking, which has been shown nationally and internationally. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Library of Congress.

Mark Little
Mark Little
Biology - New

Mark Little had been a science teacher at Broomfield High School in Colorado for 32 years and has taught AP Biology for about 20 years and retired at the end of 2018. He has been very involved with the AP Biology re-design, including and not limited to field-testing some of the laboratory investigations and helping with the new CED. Mark has been an AP Reader and Table Leader for over fifteen years at the reading along with being an item writer for the exam. Mark received his BS degree from Colorado State University and his master’s from the University of Denver.

Mark incorporates the new curriculum framework ideas in his workshop and his focus for his institutes is to help the AP Biology come alive for students He incorporates the information learned in his workshops and stays current using research-based, pedagogically sound instructional strategies. Mark is involved with the AP Biology Teacher community and offers help to teachers directly in these groups. Mark is a National Board Certified and has been recognized for his teaching by receiving various awards, including the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for the state of Colorado in 2005. Since 2014, Mark has lead AP workshops in Alabama, Arizona, Minnesota, Montana and California. Mark was President of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) in 2013 and currently still very involved with the organization. He enjoys reading, fly fishing and golfing and traveling with his wife in his free time.

Aaron Mathieu
Aaron Mathieu
Biology - Experienced

Aaron Mathieu is an award-winning AP Biology and Science Research Teacher at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts. Throughout his 28-year teaching career, Aaron has worked to broaden student access to rigorous, engaging, and authentic science learning experiences, Aaron was named the 2015 Outstanding Biology Teacher for the state of Massachusetts.

He has been an AP Biology Reader since 2017, co-founded the New England AP Biology PLC in 2019 and became an AP Biology Consultant in 2022. Aaron served on the 2006 MCAS standard setting committee for the Massachusetts grade 10 biology exam and has developed and written curriculum as an American Association of Immunology research fellow, as a BioBuilder Teacher leader, and as a consultant for the Amgen Biotech Experience and LabeXchange,

From 2016-2022, he hosted the Life of the School Podcast where he interviews life science teachers about their teaching practices and goals. He has also been featured in Quanta Magazine and as a AAAS Featured teacher.

TJ Dortch
TJ Dortch
Chemistry - New & Experienced

Thomas Dortch (TJ) has been a high school educator for over 29 years and an AP Chemistry teacher for the past 23 years. He has been an AP Chemistry Exam Reader for the past ten years and has been a consultant for College Board for the past eight years. He has done workshops in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Chicago, Oklahoma, Texas, Indiana, and Arkansas and is looking forward to presenting in Denver, Colorado.

In 2008, he was named Oklahoma’s Siemens Award winner for Advanced Placement. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, which is about 15 miles north of Oklahoma City. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, he has taught high school science in Illinois, Texas, and Oklahoma. He has five children that he adores and a loving wife to keep him sane. He enjoys discussing chemistry education and is always trying to improve his craft.

Rebecca Howell
Rebecca Howell
Physics

Rebecca Howell has been teaching AP Physics since 2000 in the North Atlanta Metro area. She has always loved math and science. While she has taught every AP Physics Course, she currently teaches AP Physics C: Mechanics and AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism at Lambert High School in Suwanee, Georgia.

She has worked as a Question Leader, Table Leader, and Reader at the annual AP Physics Reading from 2003-2020. Rebecca served as a member of the AP Physics 2 test development committee, as the College Board Advisor from 2013-2018. Rebecca has presented several times at the American Association of Physics Teachers’ National Meeting. She has worked with the Georgia Department of Education in presenting one-day workshops since 2007.

From 2012 - 2017, Rebecca served as a Master Teaching Fellow through the Noyce I-IMPACT Teaching Fellowship Program at Kennesaw State University mentoring new Physics and AP Physics teachers while earning her Teacher Leader Endorsement. She was selected as 2019 and 2023 STAR teacher for Lambert and the school district.

In 2020 she was awarded the E. Scott Barr award for Physics Teaching Excellent presented by the University of Alabama. She is the Head Coach for the Science Olympiad and Physics Teams. During summer break, Mrs. Howell travels to various universities to lead College Board workshops. She enjoys working with new teachers. When not teaching, she enjoys spending time with her family. She loves coffee, being outside, making stuff, Disney, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and going on adventures.

Matt Wells
Matt Wells
Environmental Sciences

Matt Wells (MEd) is an award-winning teacher, science department chair, AP consultant and workshop presenter based in Houston, TX. Having an ecological research background working in Madagascar and Guyana, Matt launched his urban school district’s AP Environmental Science program in 2005 and has taught APES ever since in a low-income public school setting.

An AP Reader since 2012, Matt is also a consultant/coach for the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI), A+ Alabama, Arkansas AIMS, Rice University and the College Board. Matt has conducted Summer Institutes, Mock Readings, Student Study Sessions, conference workshops and other trainings across the US, and has received numerous awards for his work, including the Texas Chemical Council’s Award for Excellence in Environmental Education, the Butler Award for Educational Excellence, and NABT’s Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Texas.

As a national consultant and Past-President of both the Science Teacher’s Association of Texas and the Texas Association of Biology Teachers, Matt has seen many different ways to teach APES around the country. Whether urban or rural, wealthy or less privileged, large or small, Matt believes that APES can be taught effectively in any school setting and is passionate about helping teachers launch and develop their programs, so they can connect their students to the world around them in meaningful ways and prepare them effectively for the rigors of the exam.

Georgia Freeman
Georgia Freeman
Precalculus

Georgia Freeman has taught secondary math for 22 years in Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. She has AP Calculus AB at Spanish Fort High in Spanish Fort AL for 3 years as well as AP Calculus AB and BC at Zachary High School in Zachary LA for 5 years.

Georgia is passionate about teaching math and is highly motivated to provide engaging training, on-going teacher support, resources and encouragement to all math educators. Georgia currently teaches AP Pre-Calculus and Algebra Finance at Robertsdale High in Robertsdale AL. Georgia lives in Fairhope, AL with her husband Ashley and their three children Hootie, Ashton, and Mary-Carmen.

Week 1: July 8-11, 2024 (In person)
Courses Room # Instructor
AP US Government and Politics New and Experienced TBD Kellye Self
AP English Language and Composition New and Experienced TBD Elizabeth Hall
AP English LIterature and Composition New and Experienced TBD Elizabeth Davis
AP Psychology New and Experienced TBD Gary Shriver
AP Art and Design TBD Susan Altman
Week 2: July 15-18, 2024 (In person)
Courses Room # Instructor
AP Biology New TBD Mark Little
AP Biology Experienced TBD Lee Ferguson
AP Chemistry New TBD Danny Elegante
AP Chemistry Experienced TBD TJ (Thomas) Dortch
AP Physics 1 New and Experienced TBD Rebecca Howell
AP Environmental Sciences New and Experienced TBD Matt Wells
AP Precalculus TBD TBD

Parking
Visitor parking will be provided for all APSI attendees. An email from Parking services will be sent to all registrants. Please complete the given information to ensure parking permission. Failure to complete visitor parking instructions participants will be responsible for issued tickets.

Agenda
All times are Central:
Registration Check-in Monday 8:00-8:30 AM
Instruction begins at 8:30 AM
Lunch is provided and will be Instructor guided. The cafeteria opens at 11:00 AM
Location: The Edge at Central Dining

Instruction resume 1:00-4:30 PM
Break times will be Instructor guided. (Snacks and beverages are provided.)

2024 APSI Registration Deadline – July 8, 2024

$700 Tuition
AP US Government
AP English Language
AP English Literature
AP Psychology
AP Art & Design
AP Precalculus

$750 Tuition
AP Biology – New
AP Biology – Experienced
AP Chemistry – New
AP Chemistry – Experienced
AP Physics – New and Experienced
AP Environmental Sciences – New and Experienced

Week 1: July 8-11, 2024
Online Registration
(In-person Workshops)
Week 2: July 15-18, 2024
Online Registration
(In-person Workshops)


NOTE: Registration will be through the College Board CVENT system. All AP teachers and Coordinators will register through this system using their EPL login for College Board. If you do not have an account with College Board, then you may create an account when entering the system. All purchase orders and payments go to Auburn University.

Auburn University APSI will accept Purchase Orders or payment by check only. No online credit card payments through the CVENT system. You may call the Auburn APSI office at 334-844-5100 to pay by credit card.

Enrollment in each workshop is limited and these offerings are contingent upon sufficient demand. If you wish to attend, register early to ensure that your subject area will be offered and that you will have a seat in the class. Enrollment is not complete until Purchase Order, payment by check, or scholarship information is provided.

Contact Us

To learn more about Auburn University's AP® Summer Institute, contact Dr. Phil Chansler at (334) 844-3127 or by email at pac0012@auburn.edu

*College Board, AP, Advanced Placement Program, AP Vertical Teams, Pre-AP and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. Used with permission.

Lodging Information

The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center (on campus)
241 South College Street, Auburn, AL 36830
334-821-8200
auhcc.com

A block of rooms are available at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

Note: If you are making reservations for the day before the scheduled APSI, please remember to change the calendar to the appropriate date.

Additional Lodging Venues

TownPlace Suites by Marriott (1.8 miles from campus)
1117 South College Street
Auburn, AL 36832
334-466-8390
marriott.com

Holiday Inn Express (3.0 miles from campus)
2013 South College Street
Auburn, AL 36832
334-502-1090
ihg.com

Hilton Garden Inn (3.7 miles from campus)
2555 Hilton Garden Dr.
Auburn, AL 36830
334-502-3500
hilton.com

Tru by Hilton (4.4 miles from campus)
2411 W. Pace Blvd
Auburn, AL 36830
334-521-0400
hilton.com

Hampton Inn (3.9 miles from campus)
2430 South College Street
Auburn, AL 36832
334-821-4111
hilton.com

Courtyard by Marriott (4.4 miles from campus)
2024 W. Pace Blvd
Auburn, AL 36830
334-502-0111
marriott.com

Continuing Education Credit

Power School PD System - For your Power School accreditation Alabama teachers, please enroll for your designated AP workshop, prior to the start of the APSI at Auburn University, by using the below codes. All participants who complete 30 hours of instruction will also receive a certificate via email.

PowerSchool links coming soon.

APSI Courses
July 8-11, 2024		 PowerSchool Codes APSI Courses
July 15-18, 2024		 PowerSchool Codes
AP US Government and Politics New and Experienced Section #493042 AP Biology New Section #493049
AP English Language and Composition New and Experienced Section #493043 AP Biology Experienced Section #493050
AP English Literature and Composition New and Experienced Section #493045 AP Chemistry New Section #493051
AP Psychology New and Experienced Section #493047 AP Chemistry Experienced Section #493052
AP Art and Design Section #493048 AP Physics 1 New and Experienced Section #493053
AP Environmental Sciences New and Experienced Section #493054
AP Pre-Calculus Section #493055

Last Updated: June 7, 2024