All sessions will begin on Monday, July 6, 2026 and end on Thursday, July 9, 2026. All consultants teach or have taught AP and are endorsed by the College Board. They include AP Exam Readers and AP award winners, and they serve as lead consultants for other regional and national AP Institutes.
This week is ONLINE, with both Synchronous and Asynchronous instruction, from Monday – Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Consultant Information and Course Descriptions
Katie Stueart –
AP English Language and Composition – Combined (both New and Experienced teachers)
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Christine Carson – Legacy Academy, Albuquerque, NM
AP English Literature and Composition for both Experience and New teachers
Christine Carson has been a teacher in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area for the last 21 years, teaching AP and Pre-AP English Language Arts in grades 9-12 for the last 17 years. She holds a B.A in Secondary Education with endorsements in English and Social Studies from the University of New Mexico and an MS in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment from Walden University.
Carson has been serving as an AP Literature and Composition reader for 15 years, and is currently a Question Leader for the exam. As a consultant, she has facilitated APSIs for the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Texas Tech University, the University of Arkansas Little Rock, and institutions in the Kansas City, San Francisco, San Diego, Albuquerque, and Atlanta areas. In addition, she has authored assessment materials for AP English Literature for a renowned textbook company. She describes herself as a diligent, enthusiastic educator who seeks genuine, authentic connections with students to encourage them to grow into mature readers, writers, and thinkers.
Course Description
This workshop explores the world of teaching AP® Literature and Composition for New AP English Literature and Composition teachers. Some of the areas that will be covered will include the Course Framework, passage analysis strategies, close reading methods and practices, drawing inferences, and importance of purpose or effect in analysis as well as novel unit organization suggestions and activities. Creation of challenging analytical tools for major works, teaching and scoring student writing, creative discussions, strategies for multiple choice testing, Lesson simulations in poetry, short fiction and longer works of fiction, and simulated AP® exam grading will be included. Participants will also have opportunities to share best practices as well in this asynchronous and synchronous interactive workshop.
Aaron Mathieu – Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, Acton, MA
AP Biology – Combined (New and Experienced teachers)
Aaron Mathieu is an award-winning AP Biology and Science Research Teacher at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts. Throughout his 29-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 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 an AAAS Featured teacher.
Course Description
In our 4-Day AP Summer Institute, you’ll develop a toolkit of effective, ready-to-use strategies and pedagogical techniques to integrate into your teaching practice immediately. We’ll begin with an overview of the course, breaking down the course and exam description (including unit guides) making connections to the course requirements. This includes planning your AP course within your school’s academic calendar (with shared pacing guides for various schedule types) and, for new teachers, resources to assist with AP Audit approval. We’ll explore both formative and summative assessment items to identify key content and skill pairings, building lesson plans that reinforce these connections. This includes utilizing AP Classroom resources, along with data from AP Classroom, Instructional Planning Reports, and the Chief Reader’s Report, to focus on areas needing instructional emphasis. We’ll also discuss AP Exam scoring, including how to use rubrics from past FRQs and practice applying the latest scoring guidelines to student work. Additionally, we’ll cover the AP Reader experience. In our sessions, we’ll also introduce engaging, ready-to-use strategies and materials, including labs that let students actively explore the six science practices integral to AP Biology. Finally, we’ll exchange valuable resources as a group, establish meaningful connections, and discuss ways to connect with the broader AP Biology community. If you would like more details, check out the 4-day Agenda.
Todd Abronowitz –
AP Chemistry – Combined (New and Experienced teachers)
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Gina McCarley –
AP Computer Science Principles (New and Experienced teachers)
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Todd Steckler –
AP Precalculus (New and Experienced teachers)
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Doug Tyson – Central York High School, York, PA
AP Statistics – Combined (New and Experienced teachers)
Doug Tyson has taught mathematics and statistics to high school and undergraduate students for more than 30 years. He currently teaches AP Statistics, Intro to Statistics, and Statistical Reasoning in Sports at Central York High School in York, PA. Doug is committed to increasing the visibility and quality of statistics education around the country. To that end, he happily served on the NCTM/ASA Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability, worked as a Question Leader at the AP Statistics Reading, is a Professional Development/Workshop Consultant for the College Board, runs workshops and teacher training events in statistical education around the country, and is an active NCTM and ASA member.
Doug’s commitment to statistics education includes various publications: a College Board curriculum module on random sampling and random assignment (co-author), creator of AP Daily Videos for the College Board, the Teacher’s Edition for Statistics and Probability with Applications, 3rd, 4th, and 5th edition (author), media supplements to accompany The Practice of Statistics 5th, 6th, and 7th edition (author and project manager), and the Teacher’s Edition for The Practice of Statistics 7th edition (author). He has been a speaker at regional and national mathematics education conferences, including NCTM Annual and state conferences, and been nominated for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
In a perfect world, Doug would be able to teach statistics without talking. While he still hasn’t achieved this goal, he’s gotten closer to achieving it.
Outside of work, Doug likes to spend time with his family, hunt, fish, read, eat corn dogs, and make snow with his homemade snow-making machine.
Course Description
Welcome to the wonderful world of Statistics! Without a doubt, this is the most enjoyable course I get to teach. I look forward to working with you and hope that you leave feeling prepared and excited about the opportunity to teach AP® Statistics.
During the workshop we will:
- Highlight important parts of the Course and Exam Description.
- Participate in many classroom-tested activities that illustrate key Learning Objectives.
- Discuss how to use resources from the College Board found within AP Classroom including Personal Progress Checks and the Question Bank.
- Review important topics from the course, including free-response questions from the AP® Statistics exam.
- Discuss how the AP® Statistics exam is created and how it is scored, with a focus on the most recent year’s AP® Statistics exam. We will also discuss common student errors and how to avoid them.
- Practice using various types of technology, including graphing calculators and web apps.
- Discuss other important topics for running an AP® Statistics course, including textbook selection, recruiting students, assessing students, and other day-to-day issues.
- Answer as many questions as possible!
Digital copies of my lesson plans and other resources will be shared on our course website. Please bring a laptop/tablet and a graphing calculator. I will feature the NumWorks and TI-84 graphing calculators, but any graphing calculator with statistical capabilities will suffice. You can bring your textbook if you would like, but that is optional.
Scott Ravinius –
AP Comparative Government – Combined (New and Experienced teachers)
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Matt Tawney –
AP Seminar (New and Experienced Teachers)
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Erin Reiner –
AP Art History – Combined (New and Experienced teachers)
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