Online 2026 Workshops | Week 2 | August 3-6
The workshop sessions are small, averaging fewer than 15 participants. Each session is designed to meet the needs of the individual participants to ensure that each teacher returns to the classroom with increased confidence and strategies for success.
Our online workshops run 4 days, Monday through Thursday.
Our consultants are experienced AP teachers with outstanding reputations in public and private schools. Many serve, or have served, as readers at their respective AP readings and are endorsed by the College Board to lead AP workshops. Many of our consultants are also table leaders and members of their respective course’s test development committee.
Register for a workshop the week of August 3-6
AP African American Studies
Instructor: Rachel Williams-Giordano
During this AP African American Studies APSI, you’ll explore the course framework, the exam, and the new AP resources that will help you plan and focus instruction—and give you feedback throughout the year on the areas where individual students need additional focus. You’ll also learn about completing the digital activation process at the start of the school year that will give you immediate access to the new resources and will help ensure that your students can register for AP Exams by the new fall deadlines. By attending this APSI, you’ll gain deeper insight into the following key takeaways, among several others: Understand the Course; Plan the Course; Teach the Course; Assess Student Progress; and Engage as a Member of the AP Community. In addition, specific attention will be paid to the following AP Classroom resources: unit guides, personal progress checks, AP teacher community, and the AP question bank.
AP English Language and Composition
Instructor: Jennifer Garner
The AP Language & Composition workshop provides teachers with instruction in best practices, pedagogical tools and strategies, and AP resources. Beginning with a thorough dive into the Course and Exam Description, participants will gain a deep understanding of required course skills, pacing, broadening access, AP resources (with special emphasis on AP Classroom), as well as the exam structure and how course skills align to the exam. Using a backward design approach (identifying what students must be able to do first), the workshop will focus on the four big ideas (Rhetorical Situation, Claims and Evidence, Reasoning and Organization, and Style), the eight skill categories, and the free response essays (Rhetorical Analysis, Argument, and Synthesis). In each of these content areas, participants will explore and share lesson ideas and resources. Participants also will take a deep dive into the scoring rubrics for the free response questions and will score essays similar to the process at the AP Reading. The workshop will conclude with instructional design, data interpretation, and syllabus creation/revision. Participants will have opportunities throughout the week to collaborate, discuss, and apply strategies.
AP Precalculus
Instructor: Brendan Murphy
In this session we will explore this new course from the College Board which builds on a typical Precalculus curriculum. This is a modeling course with emphasis on constructing, interpreting, and understanding the limitations of the various model types. The course is broken down into four major themes including:
1. Polynomial and Rational Functions
2. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
3. Trigonometric and Polar Functions
4. Functions involving Parameters, Vectors, and Matrices
We will review the various resources provided by the College Board including: AP Classroom, AP Daily videos, AP Central, and the Course and Exam Description (CED). We will review the three practice exams created for this course as well as the exam format and types of MCQ and FRQ questions. A graphing calculator will be used to help participants understand the various concepts.
Since the APPC Exam covers just Units 1-3, we will focus on those units.