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Enhancing Academic Excellence through Effective AP Program Strategies

The SAISD AP Program, led by Administrator Ed Gordon, focuses on creating a culture of high expectations and academic performance. Our initiatives include vertical teaming, curriculum alignment, and increasing access to Pre-AP and AP classes. With resources like the AP Capacity Assessment Tool and regular tutoring sessions, we aim to elevate student performance and awareness of academic acceleration options. Engaging both students and parents, our comprehensive program emphasizes critical and analytical thinking, effective communication, and data-driven decision-making, ensuring that every student receives the highest quality education.

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Enhancing Academic Excellence through Effective AP Program Strategies

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  1. SAISD AP Program Ed Gordon SAISD Program Administrator (210) 354-3983; fax (210) 472-1967 egordon@saisd.net

  2. Successful AP Practices and Policies • Create a culture of high expectations and consistently high levels of performance • Plan and collaborate to support this culture • Provide resources to support this culture • Institutionalize vertical teaming with horizontal collaboration • Align curricula

  3. AP Program Objectives • Identify and eliminate barriers to open access • Increase the number of pre-AP and AP classes offered • Increase the level of student performance in pre-AP and AP classes and on benchmark assessments • Increase student and parental awareness of • academic acceleration options • the commitment required for pre-AP and AP success

  4. AP Program Design • 4 district level lead teachers (1 per core area) • Best practices laboratory classroom • Develop vertical teams • APCAT (AP Capacity Assessment Tool) • Campus Implementation Plan • Student and Teacher Support • Develop data accumulation/analysis model

  5. Habits of Mind(www.s4s.org) • Critical thinking • Analytical thinking • An inquisitive nature & interest in research • Willingness to accept critical feedback and adjust accordingly • Openness to possible failure from time to time

  6. Habits of Mind cont’d • Ability and desire to cope with frustrating and ambiguous learning tasks • Express one’s self in writing and orally in a clear and convincing fashion • Discern the relative importance and credibility of various sources of information

  7. Habits on Mind cont’d • Draw inferences and reach conclusions independently • Use technology as a tool to assist the learning process rather than as a crutch

  8. Pre-AP Math Strategies • Presenting comprehensive problems linking several concepts • Presenting contextual word problems • Using technology appropriately • Asking questions with multiple parts that depend on previous parts

  9. Pre-AP Math Strategies cont’d • Exposing students to information expressed in graphical, numerical and equation form • Helping students to make connections between these multiple presentations • Requiring students to justify their solutions in written form and draw conclusions • Stress conceptual understanding over skills

  10. Pre-AP Science Strategies • Develop the skill of acquiring data by experimentation and observation • Develop the ability • to record and manipulate data • to communicate and share results • to design experiments • Develop the understanding of science as a process

  11. Exemplary Program • Student support • Regular tutoring (some district $$$) • Prep sessions: weekends, summer, breaks • PSAT for all 8th, 9th & 10th graders • Many (AP) course options • Several course-taking options • Regular day • Before or after regular school day • Summer school • Online

  12. Exemplary Program • Teacher Support (some district sub $$$) • Professional development – content • Professional development – pedagogy • Vertical team training • In classroom mentoring • Best practices model • Aligned curriculum • Student assessment tools • Self assessment tools • Summary of Answers training

  13. Exemplary Program • Staff support • Counselor training • AP Potential • AP Coordinator • Administrator training • AP Administrator • Data accumulation and analysis plan

  14. Exemplary Program • Parental support • Contracts for AP (pre-AP) students • Presentation on general college awareness and expectations • Presentation on AP Program

  15. District Tool Kit • College Board Conferences/Workshops (some sub $$$ available) • In Class Mentoring • 8th, 9th & 10th Grade PSAT • Parent Presentations by the College Board • ½ Day Counselor Training • ½ Day pre-AP/AP Teacher Training by CB

  16. District Toolkit • Summary of Answers & Skills Workshop • APCAT • CollegeEd for Middle Schools • Some Substitute $$$ • Some tutoring $$$ • “Special” College Board Workshops • Student Prep Sessions

  17. District Toolkit • Pre-AP English Laying the Foundations training • Pre-AP English teachers from each grade 6 – 10 • Meets quarterly • Stipend • College Board conferences/institutes

  18. SAISD students deserve the best education possible!!!

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