District 88 staff members participate in Advanced Placement (AP) events
District 88 strives to provide all students with the opportunity to access the most rigorous curriculum, including Advanced Placement (AP)/college-level courses. Supports are implemented to help students successfully complete those classes. Through AP courses, students also are able to take a corresponding assessment to potentially earn college credit.
Chicagoland AP Consortium
On May 15, District 88 teachers and administrators attended the 5th Annual Chicagoland AP Consortium Reflection and Renewal Conference. Top left: Willowbrook math teacher Josh Zwart and Addison Trail math teacher Natalie Stach Wilen participate in the conference. Top right: Pictured are Willowbrook social studies department chair Katherine Strand-Carroll and Willowbrook social studies teacher Miguel Molina. Bottom: Pictured are (back row, from left) Willowbrook social studies teachers Brian Eslick and Matt Clapper and (front row, from left) Addison Trail social studies teachers Brad Donaldson, Brendan Lyons (department chair) and Mark Olson.
Pictured is Dr. Sian Beilock, who was the keynote speaker at the conference. Beilock discussed the science behind performance.
To stay at the forefront of the College Board AP program, District 88 teachers and administrators recently attended the 5th Annual Chicagoland AP Consortium Reflection and Renewal Conference. That event took place on May 15 at Westmont High School and was an opportunity for teachers to debrief on the recently administered AP exams, share best practices and build student-centered strategies to enhance the educational environment of the classroom. District 88 Superintendent Dr. Scott Helton; Willowbrook Principal Dr. Dan Krause; District 88 Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Dr. Adam Cibulka; and District 88 Director of Technology, Teaching and Learning Dr. Aaron Lenaghan also served on the consortium committee.
Hundreds of teachers from more than 30 high schools attend this annual event, which features workshops on the various AP subject areas – including biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, English, European history, human geography, macro/micro economics, physics, psychology, Spanish, statistics, U.S. government and politics, U.S. history and world history this year.
The keynote speaker for the conference was Dr. Sian Beilock, author of “How the Body Knows Its Mind” and “Choke.” During her presentation, Beilock discussed the science behind performance and how the mind and body can react in stressful situations. She provided insight and strategies to improve performance through understanding our mind, body and surroundings. For more information about Beilock, go to http://sianbeilock.com/about.html.
AP Reader and AP Advocates program State Advocate Lead
Pictured is Willowbrook social studies teacher Andrew Levin, who will serve as an AP Reader this summer.
Willowbrook social studies teacher Andrew Levin has been named as an AP Reader by the College Board's Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) and Educational Testing Service. From June 3 to 9, Levin will join about 15,900 college faculty and AP teachers from throughout the world, who combined will evaluate and score about 21 million free-response answers. He will help score AP U.S. government and politics assessments, and this is the second time Levin will serve as an AP Reader.
Pictured is Addison Trail world language teacher Judie Vitiritti-Lynch, who has been selected as the State Advocate Lead for Illinois through the AP Advocates program.
Addison Trail world language teacher Judie Vitiritti-Lynch has been selected as the State Advocate Lead for Illinois through the AP Advocates program. As a State Advocate Lead, Vitiritti-Lynch will help:
- Build and establish a network of teachers to initiate, moderate and analyze online and in-person discussions that develop policy recommendations for supporting and expanding AP
- Share knowledge and resources with the teacher network and appropriate stakeholders
- Create and cultivate relationships with policymakers to help them better understand teacher views to present teacher-generated solutions on key state and federal AP policy issues
- Collaborate with other State Advocate Leads
She also will attend a State Advocate Lead Training on July 20 and 21 in Huston.