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What Michigan high school principals need to know about Advanced Placement

What Michigan high school principals need to know about Advanced Placement. MASSP Podcast February 12, 2009. What is Advanced Placement?. Established in 1955 by College Board and Carnegie Foundation Purpose: support challenging course work for high school students

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What Michigan high school principals need to know about Advanced Placement

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  1. What Michigan high school principals need to know about Advanced Placement MASSP Podcast February 12, 2009

  2. What is Advanced Placement? • Established in 1955 by College Board and Carnegie Foundation • Purpose: support challenging course work for high school students • External examination: student can receive college credit, depending on score/ college policy • Over 1.7 million students take AP courses and exams per year • Nearly three million AP exams taken last year

  3. How big is AP? • College admissions • Course selection • “One of the most highly respected brand-names in secondary education” (Sadler & Tai, 2006)

  4. Where is Michigan in AP? • 2004: Cherry Commission’s concern about Michigan HS graduates in college • 90% of HS freshmen say they want to go to college • 41% of HS graduates enroll in post-secondary education directly out of HS • 18% finish bachelor’s degrees • Michigan’s AP participation • 2005: 27th among 50 states • 2008: 30th among 50 states

  5. Understanding AP • “AP is not college preparatory; AP is college.” • AP should be rigorous, but AP should not be a student’s first experience with rigor. • The principal’s role in a school’s AP program is big. • Understand what AP does to/for teachers, students

  6. Understanding AP: What really matters • Greater course selection • Offer more, and more varied, courses • Greater inclusion • More junior-level offerings • Less gatekeeping • More recruitment of underrepresented students (economically disadvantaged, ethnic groups) • Greater preparation • AP teachers • Pre-AP teachers • Students

  7. Understanding AP: What really matters • Greater exam participation • Current research: AP qualifiers have the greatest advantage in college • Strategy: • Emphasize exam • Increase exam participation • Increase exam success

  8. Understanding AP: Best use of resources • What is the best use of resources in supporting greater AP exam participation and success • Fee subsidies: Not generally a great use of funding, BUT. . . • Professional development for AP/Pre-AP teachers • College Board workshops • AP Summer Institute • Pre-AP and vertical team support • SpringBoard • AVID

  9. AP Summer Institute: Lapeer East HS • Two sessions in June 2009 • Features: • Air conditioning • Michigan’s only APSI hosted by a public high school • Lead instructors are all College Board consultants, AP exam readers • Sessions are course specific • Pre-AP: English for teams within building/district • CEUs/CMU graduate credit available

  10. Contact: Mike Hobolth Lapeer East HS 810.667.2418 mhobolth@lapeerschools.org

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