Read more about:
- Definitions of New, Experienced, and Combined for courses
- Registration fees for in-state and out-of-state participants
- Cancellation dates and fees
- Information you need to register – College Board Account
- Online Institute dates and times with courses available during each week
- In-Person On-Campus Institute dates and times with courses available during the week
- Priorities for Arkansas AP and Pre-AP Teachers
A new AP teacher may have experience in teaching but has never attended an AP Summer Institute in the specific subject area or has been trained but has taught the course for only one year.
An experienced AP teacher is one who has attended at least one AP Summer Institute in the specific subject area and has taught the course for two or more years.
Combined courses include both New and Experienced Teachers.
Institute fee for in-state:
- $525 English and Social Studies courses
- $550 Math, Sciences and Art & Design courses -a lab/art fee of $25 included in the registration fee.
Institute fee for out-of-state/private schools: All private and out-of-state schools are responsible for their teachers’ registration fees.
- $700 English and Social Studies courses
- $725 Math, Sciences and Art & Design has a lab/art fee of $25 included in the registration fee.
Cancellations after May 15, 2025, will incur a $500 cancellation fee plus the cost of College Board materials $80.
No Show fee is $500, plus cost of College Board materials $80.
- Your College Board User Id and Password (if you do not have one you can easily create one by clicking on the “Create New Account” on College Board website). ***Please use an email that you will have access to all summer. The system will send all emails (including certificate emails) to the email address associated with your College Board account. ***
- Contact College Board Call Center for support: 1-866-315-6068, option 2, then option 1 (to change your name, email address or institution)
- Password resets: there is an online user/password reset under “My Account” tab on the College Board site: https://account.collegeboard.org/login/login
- Your principal’s name and email address and your AP Coordinator’s name and email address.
Once your registration is submitted, a confirmation notice will be sent to the email address on file. All correspondence will be through your email account. If the email confirmation is not received, the registration failed. Please resubmit.
2025 UA Little Rock Online AP Summer Institute Dates
Courses offered: AP English Language: New and Combined, AP English Literature: New and Combined, AP World History: Modern – Combined, AP U.S. History: New and Combined, AP African American Studies, AP Calculus: New and Combined, AP Biology – New, AP Chemistry – New
Each participant will receive a digital copy of the College Board materials the week before the workshop begins.
Please Note: This APSI is conducted entirely online, therefore access to dependable internet service is a must!
Courses offered: AP U.S. Government and Politics, AP Computer Science A, AP English Language-New and Combined, AP English Literature- New and Combined, AP Chemistry-Combined, AP Biology-Combined, AP Statistics – Combined, AP Environmental Science, AP Precalculus, AP Spanish Literature.
Each participant will receive a digital copy of the College Board materials the week before the workshop begins.
Please Note: This APSI is conducted entirely online, therefore access to dependable internet service is a must!
2025 UA Little Rock On Campus AP Summer Institute Dates
Courses offered: AP Biology-Combined, AP Chemistry-Combined, AP Physics 1, AP Psychology, AP Art and Design-New and Combined, AP Spanish Language, AP English Language – Combined, AP English Literature – Combined, AP Computer Science Principles, and AP World History: Modern – New, AP U.S. History – Combined.
Each participant who completes registration by 5:00 pm on June 30, 2025 will receive a physical copy of the College Board materials at the workshop. After that time (and there will be No Exceptions) you will receive a digital copy of the College Board materials. There can be no exceptions to this because of the time required to receive the physical materials. If you miss the deadline, you can order a CED from the College Board Store for $25.
Other Important Information
ADE Grant Funds are available for Arkansas Public and Charter School Teachers until exhausted. Arkansas public and charter school teachers should inform their schools that they will be responsible for payment if there are not sufficient state funds to cover their costs for the Institute.
Priority Status for Arkansas AP and Pre-AP Teachers
Arkansas public and charter school teachers attending APSI 2025 for professional development training in Advanced Placement (AP) and Pre-Advanced Placement (Pre-AP) will receive funding according to the priority status below:
- Priority 1: Currently employed Arkansas AP teachers never having attended an APSI.
- Priority 2: Arkansas AP teachers currently teaching in a high poverty school (70% or more schools receive free/reduced lunch) and/or a school that submits data to support a gap in minority students’ access or outcomes in AP courses.
- Priority 3: Currently employed Arkansas AP teachers teaching in a district that is involved in Arkansas AIMS.
- Priority 4: Currently employed Arkansas AP teachers having attended an APSI more than 5 years ago(during or prior to the summer of 2020).
- Priority 5: Currently employed Arkansas Pre-AP teachers never having attended an APSI. *Note- APSI training may not be substituted for the College Board Pre-AP Program required initial training for Pre-AP teachers.
- Priority 6: Currently employed Arkansas Pre-AP teachers having attended an APSI more than 5 years ago (during or prior to the summer of 2020).
*Note- APSI training may not be substituted for the College Board Pre-AP Program required initial training for Pre-AP teachers.
- Priority 7: Arkansas educators who wish to become “AP Ready.” These may be a) currently Arkansas employed educators who are not teaching AP who would like to receive the training to be ready to teach AP should the opportunity arise; OR b) Arkansas pre-service teachers who are entering their final year of an educator preparation program or who are completing their final year, but have not yet been employed by a district. For educators in this category, AP training should correlate with their intended licensure area(s). Note: There are limited seats in “AP Ready.”
*”Teachers attending AP training at UA Little Rock’s Advanced Placement Summer Institute in their subject areas satisfy the training requirement as outlined in Section 4.03 of the Arkansas Department of Education Rules for Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Diploma Incentive Program.”
