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Home > Pre-AP > Workshops > Pre-AP: Instructional Leadership Strategies--Promoting Excellence and Equity in AP Courses
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Pre-AP: Instructional Leadership Strategies--Promoting Excellence and Equity in AP Courses
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| | This one-day workshop is designed for administrators, counselors, and teachers interested in examining issues related to the development of instructional programs that reflect excellence and equity. The activities and discussions in this workshop are designed to help participants identify excellence and equity concepts that apply to all subject areas and further prepare students for AP courses. At the end of the workshop, participants will understand how to create high-achievement classrooms accessible to all students and how to make curricular decisions to increase student achievement and access to AP courses.
General themes:
- The College Board's commitment to access and equity within the AP Program
- The historical background of the equity and excellence debate in American schooling
- The importance of a rigorous curriculum for all children
- Ways to use data to identify needs within a program
- The role of administrators, counselors, and teachers in removing barriers to access and equity
- Ways to identify and remove natural and artificial barriers to access and equity
- A greater understanding of specific issues affecting minority and low socioeconomic status (SES) students
- Specific strategies to equip minority and low SES students with skills for success in AP courses
The workshop conforms to:
- The College Board's mission, particularly access and equity
- NASSP
The workshop provides:
- Connection between Pre-AP/AP and student success
- In-depth discussion of various stakeholders' roles within a system-wide approach to improving student achievement
- Achievement data analysis
- Activities for participants that serve as catalysts for future discussions
- Recommended professional development and resources (AP Central, Pre-AP professional development, and so on)
Agenda
Section 1: Owning the Mission
This section introduces participants to the College Board mission of access and equity. Participants will discuss some of the historical underpinnings that support access and equity, and they will begin a process of developing a mission for their own programs.
Section 2: Basic Skills vs. Advanced Skills--A Case for Rigorous Curriculum for All Students
With increased accountability and emphasis on basic skills, many may wonder how they can focus on AP enrollment. This section is designed to make the connection between basic skills and advanced skills and how advanced course work can improve minority and low SES achievement.
Break
Section 3: The Equitable AP Program--Brown Revisited
This section examines the prototypical AP program based on the College Board Access and Equity Statement. Participants will begin the process of setting obtainable goals that can be clearly communicated to appropriate stakeholders.
Activity: Developing an AP Prototype
Lunch
Section 4: Data and Dialogue
This section is designed to empower the practitioner to engage faculty, community, and central office administrators in the process of diversifying the AP program. Participants will learn how to use both positive and negative data to increase interest and participation in AP.
Section 5: Removing Barriers
This section examines the role of administrators, counselors, and teachers in identifying and removing barriers to access. Participants will discuss the role of social constraints versus institutional constraints.
Break
Section 6: Planning for Success
The purpose of this section is to help participants develop a communication plan that will assist them in starting an equity and excellence dialogue in their own school.
Author
Since 2000, Ken Green has served as the principal of Oak Ridge High School. ORHS was recently listed in the top 4 percent of all high schools in the nation based on student participation in advanced course work. ORHS has 1,500 students, offers 22 AP courses, and has a 90 percent rate of 3 or higher on AP Exams. Offspring Magazine ranked Oak Ridge Schools in the top 100 school districts in the nation, and ORHS student assessment data annually exceeds state and national standards. Green is completing his fourth year as a College Board administrative consultant. He has conducted numerous presentations and trainings throughout the south and the northeast, specializing in minority education and closing the achievement gap.
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