Consultant Bio

Jonathan Henderson has 27 years teaching experience spanning middle school, high school, and university classes. He studied history at the graduate level at Cambridge University, taught in Central Asia as a US State Department Fellow, and in 2007 was a Fulbright Scholar to China. He has been teaching AP World History since 2002 and is a reader for the exam, a table leader, and a sample selector at the reading. Jonathan is a member of the College Board’s Curriculum and Instruction Team for the current AP World History exam redesign and helped author the College Board’s AP Workshop Handbook for Summer Institutes. He is actively involved in the creation of assessment items for the AP World History national test and helped pilot the LEQ essays that were introduced on the 2018 exam. Jonathan edited and wrote material for several of the major AP World History textbooks, coauthored Fast Track to a Five: Preparing for the AP World History Examination, and contributed to The Sea in World History published in 2017. In 2008 He served on a College Board committee in New York to review and edit the Curriculum Framework for the course rewrite. He teaches AP World History and Humanities at Forsyth Central High School near Atlanta and is an adjunct instructor of History at the University of North Georgia. He can be reached at henderson678@yahoo.com