1. “All In:  Creating an AP Culture That Expands Access and Raises Performance.” Eastern Technical High School

2. Tom Evans – Principal Harry Cook – English Department Chair (AP English Language) Eastern Technical High School

3. Eastern Technical High School

4. Eastern Technical High School

5. Eastern Technical High School “One of America’s Best High Schools” • Newsweek Magazine • U. S. News & World Report • Washington Post • US Challenge School 2011-2013

6. Eastern Tech is a magnet school in the Baltimore County Public Schools, Baltimore County, MD We serve approximately 1150 students in grades 9 – 12 Eastern Technical High School

7. Allied Health • Automotive Service Technology • Business Management and Finance • Construction Management • Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management • Engineering Careers • Information Technology (Cisco) • Law Related Careers • Interactive Media Production • Teacher Academy of Maryland Career Majors at ETHS

8. Mission Statement Mission: The mission of Eastern Tech is to ensure that every student meets a rigorous standard of academic achievement as measured by local, state, and national criteria.

9. Educators commit to: • Collaborating with parents and community • Engaging students with relevance and rigor • Supporting students to prepare for college/workplace • So that students will develop 21st Century skills such as: • Collaboration • Communication • Critical thinking • Creative problem solving • Technology Mission Statement

10. To prepare our students for college and for work in a global economy • To disseminate best practices so that all can benefit We Accept Responsibility

11. Policies • Example: Vertical teaming to backward map AP skills • Personnel • Example: Energetic, content masters who are willing to give extra time • Persistence • Example: A constant focus on how we can improve What Makes ET’s AP Program so Successful?

12. Eastern Technical High School Advanced Placement Performance

13. Race School % AP % African-Am 18% 15% Asian 5% 7% Hispanic 3% 3% White 74% 74% Enrollment vs. AP Participation

14. What are the benefits of taking an AP class? • What are the benefits of diversity in AP students? • What doors are opened by taking AP courses? Questions to AP Students

15. For teachers: • Vertical teaming • Create a strong Pre-AP program in early grades • Create a culture of success by celebrating the work of all teachers • Honest grading • Summer jump – meetings, assignments, contact Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Policies

16. For students: • Recruitment • AP Potential data • Personal letters from AP teachers • AP Night • No low level courses • Algebra I is lowest available math course • All students complete Alg. II by grade 10 Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Policies

17. For students (continued); • Complete summer assignments • Interact electronically with teachers • Use interactive message board • Take practice exams on weekends as a simulation Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Policies

19. Recruit energetic, content masters who are willing to give extra time, i.e. “Best and Brightest” • Willingness to interact electronically with students • Share “best practices” • Participate in professional development • Serve as AP Readers (Note: 4 on ET staff this year) Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Personnel

20. National Board Certification – 7 teachers • 5 earned; 2 working towards • Membership/Participation in State/National Organizations • Use of College Board personnel to train and provide feedback to AP teachers throughout the academic year • Annual updating of syllabus Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Personnel

21. Focus on constant improvement – “Good to Great” • Analyzing data – revising/adjusting instruction • Create a “farm team” • Willingness to work through senior issues Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Persistence

22. AP Exam date posted the first day of school in each AP Classroom • Honors level courses called “Pre-AP” • AP skills for success identified within curriculum of “PRE AP” courses. • Naming classrooms after highest AP scorers Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Persistence

23. Promotion of AP to prospective 9th graders • Posting class averages on exams for students to compare performance between AP sections • Top AP student averages and news posted on the school’s website and on the internal school electronic billboard. Eastern Technical High SchoolAP Persistence

24. ADVANCED PLACEMENTGOALS 2012-13MEASUREMENT ITEMS * In SY 11-12, The AP Team sought to increase the overall participation rate in AP courses (school-wide) from 33% to 35%. The 2013 participation rate (number of students in AP Courses divided by total school population) was 38% ( 452/1188=38.04%) Overall school-wide participation of individual students taking an AP tests (408/1188=34.34%)

25. Eastern Technical High School Advanced Placement Performance

26. Questions and Answers

27. Eastern Technical High School For additional information, contact Thomas G. Evans, Principal Harry Cook, English DC tevans@bcps.org; hcook@bcps.org www.easttech.org