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Physics 2 – Holley Mosley

Holley MosleyHolley Mosley teaches at Liberty High School in Frisco, TX. She had the honor of opening the school in 2006 and has been teaching physics there since 2007. She is experienced in teaching all of the AP Physics courses (AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C: Mechanics, and AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, as well as the retired AP Physics B course). In addition to teaching physics, she serves as the Science Department’s Instructional Coach, a role where she invests in growing the professional capacity of other teachers in her department.

Holley has served as a reader, table leader, question leader, and writer for the AP Physics exams since 2014. She was a member of the AP Physics 2 Development Committee, the team of four high school teachers and four college professors who develop the AP Physics 2 exam and provide input for the curriculum, from 2018-2023. Additionally, she served as a member of the committee that revised the AP Physics Curriculum Framework, as an AP Daily Instructor, and as an AP Classroom question reviewer.

Holley has a B.S. in Forensic Science from Baylor University, M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of Texas at Arlington and a M.S. in Physics from Texas A&M – Commerce.

 

Holley Mosley is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

Art & Design – Gabriel Dorrego

I want to introduce myself. My name is Gabriel Dorrego.

I grew up in Miami, Florida, a child of Cuban immigrants. My mom said I could draw before I could talk. So as you can imagine, I decided to study art at the University of Central Florida. I’ve taught high school students ceramics, sculpture, drawing, and painting for twenty years in Orlando’s Orange County Public Schools.

Eleven years ago, I began scoring the AP art exam as a reader (scorer). During that time, they asked me to write the scoring rationale for 2D, 3D, and drawing on the CollegeBoard website. I did this for three consecutive years. Later, I was selected to contribute in the making of the AP Daily videos. These live-recorded lessons in the AP online classroom are accessible to students and teachers. These are intended to help understand the skills and expectations needed to succeed. In recent years I have continued to serve as a Table Leader. TLs train and manage groups of readers who score the exam. And finally, I’ve been an AP consultant for the last two years, teaching workshops with strategies for Art and Design.

I believe in the CollegeBoard’s commitment to serving students in readiness through vigor and access. I hope to share my experience of working with everyday kids through the AP Art and Design exam.

I look forward to working with you all, fist bumps to each of you.

 

Gabriel Dorrego is teaching two workshops at Augsburg this summer. See our registration sites with the buttons below.

Art History – Erin Reiner

Erin Reiner has been teaching visual arts at the high school level throughout the country since 2000 including Missouri, Texas, Florida, Connecticut and Colorado. Erin has taught Advanced Placement Art History since 2003 in-person, through distance education, and online.

Having attended the AP readings since 2011, Erin has participated in every role from reader, to table leader, and question leader.

As a consultant for the College Board since 2014, Erin has run Advanced Placement Summer Institutes across the country and online, one-day workshops including APAC, and several fall/spring online workshops.

Erin has contributed various resources in the development of the redesigned AP Art History course through the College Board, and was the writer of the AP Course Planning and Pacing guides for Thames and Hudson’s new text, Art History, A Global View.

In addition to teaching high school through the school year, Erin has been a high school instructor for Sotheby’s Summer Pre-College Institute in New York city for various Art History and Art Business courses.

Personally, Erin tries to travel to view art as often as possible which has included walking the Camino across northern Spain, seeing the opening of Christo’s Wrapped Arch in Paris, and most recently a visit to Israel, Jordan, and Turkey.

Erin loves working with and spreading her passion for art history to others including students in the classroom, adults at workshops, and art historians at the AP reading. Her teaching style is active, fun, and engaging, with the primary desire to get Art History into as many classrooms and lives as possible.

 

Erin Reiner is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

Physics 2 – Michael Haskins

Michael Haskins currently teaches at Greenhill School in Addison, TX. He has experience teaching all levels of AP Physics (AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, and both AP Physics C: Mechanics and AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism). In addition to teaching on-level and AP Physics, he serves as an advisor to a small group of Upper School students at Greenhill.

Michael has worked as a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader at the AP Physics Reading since 2015. Since 2022, he has been a member of the AP Physics 2 Development Committee which consists of a team of high school teachers and college professors that help create the AP Physics 2 exam and curriculum.

Michael has a B.S. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an M.A.T in Science Education from UT Dallas.

 

Michael Haskins is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

Music Theory – Akira Sato

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Akira Sato, Music Theory consultant

Since the 2013-14 academic year, Akira Sato has held a rather unique position as a full time AP Music Theory teacher at Plano West Senior High School in Plano, Texas, where he teaches up to six sections of AP Music Theory classes. Prior to this appointment, he was a faculty member at the University of North Texas, where he taught courses in Jazz Arranging and Composition. Concurrently, he was the director of the Meadows Jazz Orchestra and taught courses in Jazz Improvisation and Jazz Pedagogy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

In addition to his duties at Plano West, Akira works extensively for the College Board. As a Workshop Consultant, he leads AP Summer Institutes and One Day Workshops across the country. Since 2019, he has been a member of the AP Music Theory Test Development Committee writing and revising questions for the AP Exam. In August 2021, he created a series of 25 AP Daily Video lessons for the AP Classroom website. In addition, he has served as a reader for the AP Music Theory exam since 2015 and has gained experience grading every Free Response Question.

Akira earned a Master of Music Degree in Jazz Arranging from the University of North Texas, where he was a member of the One O’Clock Lab Band and had numerous compositions and arrangements recorded by the ensemble. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Business Administration Degree from the University of British Columbia and worked in the financial sector for several years. Currently, he lives in Plano, Texas with his wife, son, and two cats.

 

Akira Sato is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

Spanish Language – Amarilys Heard

A native of Puerto Rico, Amarilys Heard has been a resident of Florida since 1988. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Language Education from the University of Central Florida, and a Master of Education in Instructional Technology with an emphasis in World Languages from the University of Maryland University College, now University of Maryland Global Campus. Teaching experience includes teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages, Spanish for Natives/Heritage Speakers, and Spanish as a Second Language. Currently in her thirtieth year of teaching, Amarilys has 17 years in AP Spanish Language and Culture and 6 years in AP Spanish Literature and Culture. She has been a presenter at the AP Annual Conference, ACTFL Conference, Florida Council of Independent Schools (FCIS) Conference, the Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA) Conference, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), and the AATSP Florida Chapter Conference.

She is the AP Spanish Language and Culture Lead Consultant and has conducted workshops in Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and Minnesota in person and online. Amarilys sponsors the Florida State Spanish Competition (FSSC) team for her school (Miami Country Day School) and is the President of the FSSC organization. She is the President-elect for the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (SHH) or Honor Society for Spanish, and the Florida State Director of SHH. She enjoys traveling and enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters. Her whole family loves anything and everything Disney. She is a strong advocate of teaching and learning languages in early childhood and believes that educators are life-long learners who look for opportunities to adapt, modify, or innovate their current practices for better student outcomes.

 

Amarilys Heard is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

English Language and Composition – Angelann Stephens

Angelann Stephens has been an AP English Language and Composition instructor since 2005. She has also been a university adjunct composition lecturer, teaching Freshman Composition. A 23-year veteran of the English Language Arts (ELA) classroom, Angelann has taught primarily in urban and inner-city classrooms. She has helped ethnically diverse students navigate the AP English classroom using robust scaffolding techniques to bridge students’ academic needs with the demands of the AP English course. Angelann has served as a Department Chair, a curriculum writer for Georgia’s SLO Assessments for Atlanta Public Schools, and has worked for the College Board’s ReadiStep (Reading) test as a consultant in its initial phase. Angelann has been a continuous AP Reader since 2016.

Angelann has presented at several of the College Board’s National Conferences. Some of her workshops included “Using American Protest Literature to Teach Rhetoric” (2015); “The Interactive Notebook for Scaffolding Pre-AP Content for Non-traditional Students” (2013); “Making the Synthetic Argument Applicable to Younger Students” (2010); “Teaching the Research Paper to ‘At-Risk’ Students Using Children’s Literature” (2008). She has also presented at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference as well as the Georgia Educational Technology Conference (GaETC) and Metro RESA (Griffin). Her most recent presentation was for NCTE’s Annual Conference in 2023. Angelann is well-versed in instructional technology and taught for five years in Fulton County Schools’ Fulton Virtual Schools program, blending technology and ELA. She is currently an English teacher at Creekside High School for Fulton County Schools.

Angelann has also been the recipient of several nationally recognized professional development programs for teachers: the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Seminar, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum Summer Institute: Teaching the Humanities through Art Seminar (SAAM).

A certified College Board Consultant, Angelann earned a BA in English from UNC-Charlotte, an MA in English and African-American Literature from North Carolina A&T State University, an Ed.S. in Teaching and Learning from Liberty University, and in 2022, she earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Students (Social Foundations) from Georgia State University. She is also endorsed in Gifted and Talented from Valdosta State University.

 

Angelann Stephens is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

Spanish Literature and Culture – Angelica Jimenez

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Angélica M. Jiménez was born in México, grew up in Central California, attended UCLA, and has been an educator since 1982, teaching various levels of Spanish at the elementary, high school and community college level. She entered the AP® Reader “pool” in 2005, became a College Board consultant in 2007 and has presented workshops and AP® Summer Institutes nationwide. In 2010 she was selected to serve on the AP® Spanish Literature Test Development Committee, and in 2013 she served on the College Board’s Standard Setting Panel for the current AP® exam in Spanish Literature and Culture. That same fall she was named to the College Board’s Test Development Committee for the “SAT2 Subject Test in Spanish” and traveled several times to the ETS offices in Princeton, NJ between 2013 and 2016. Since 2014 she has also worked as part of the team of lead facilitators for California’s “Central California World Language Project”, sponsored by Fresno State, Bakersfield Community College and Stanford University. Her passion is sharing ideas and best practices, helping teachers new to the profession, as well as learning with others. To illustrate this, in 2013 Angélica created a blog with resources and strategies. She continues to update it each week and is proud to support teachers (and interested individuals) around the world that teach AP® Spanish Literature and Culture.

 

Angelica Jimenez is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

Environmental Science – Amy Fassler

A person with glasses and wavy dark hair wearing a brown V-neck sweater, standing in a wooden room.Amy Fassler has been teaching AP Environmental Science in Marshfield WI for 18 years. Her passion for, and knowledge of environmental science have made it one of the most popular courses on campus, attracting students from all levels. She is proud of the success her students achieve on the national exam, but also that they leave her course as inspired, scientifically literate young adults capable of understanding complex environmental issues. In addition to classroom teaching, Amy coaches Science Olympiad and mentors a student research group.

 

Amy is involved in science education leadership at the state and national level. She has served in various capacities in the AP Environmental Science community from exam development to question leader at the AP reading. She was a part of the team that developed the Course and Exam Descriptioin (CED) and contributed to development of the AP Environmental Science Lab Manual. Students and teachers alike have enjoyed the College Board review videos Amy produces, and she is thrilled to share her passion for AP Environmental Science with other teachers as a College Board consultant. In addition, Amy serves as an ambassador for HHMI Biointeractive, developing content and presenting workshops.

 

Amy is active in a variety of outdoor pursuits and enjoys cooking and reading. Her passion for adventure travel and the experiences she is able to share with her students has enhanced many aspects of her environmental science teaching.

 

Amy Fassler is teaching two workshops at Augsburg this summer. See our registration sites with the buttons below.

US History – Billie Clemens

Billie Clemens is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher and has a BA in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MAEd from Western Carolina University. Additionally, she is certified in Gifted Education and Curriculum, Instruction, and Supervision. Ms. Clemens taught APUSH for more than 25 years in a low-wealth district in the mountains of North Carolina. From 2015 until June of 2021, she served on the APUSH Test Development Committee. This committee, consisting of four high school teachers and four college professors, is responsible for creating the AP exam, rubrics, and curricular support materials. Additionally, she served for four years as the College Board liaison to the Teacher Community. Ms. Clemens has been an exam/question leader at the APUSH Reading. In this capacity, she led a team to develop the training materials for the DBQ or LEQ. The team then used those materials to train the readers to create a fair and consistent evaluation of student responses. Currently, she is a Co-Director for a K-8 charter school. She can be reached at billieclemens84@gmail.com.

 

Billie Clemens is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.