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The College Board-endorsed AP Summer Institutes provide teachers with in-depth training in AP courses and teaching strategies. Participants engage in at least 30 hours of pedagogical and content rich training led by College Board-endorsed consultants and receive printed materials, including course outlines ; content -related handouts; and student samples, scoring guidelines, and commentary for the most recent AP Exam free-response questions. 

The Silver State AP* Summer Institute is offering the following AP sessions. Please note some AP sessions are split by participant's years of teaching the specified AP subject; this may be different than years of experience teaching. Please register according to the following requirements:

Please understand that years teaching AP may be different than total years of teaching experience.

English Language & Composition

Instructor: Sherry Wynn Perdue

Syllabus: Eng Lang - Exp

English Language & Composition-Experienced

Sherry Wynn Perdue, Ph.D., is a writing center director, a Writing and Rhetoric faculty member, and an AP English Language and Composition consultant and table leader. In September 2020, she assumed leadership of the International Writing Centers Association, which serves writing center professionals and tutors all over the world. To nurture these endeavors, she earned graduate degrees in English/American Studies (Michigan State University) and Educational Leadership (Oakland University) and attended the School of Criticism and Theory (then at Dartmouth College).  Dr. Wynn Perdue’s publications on evidence-based research in writing centers, the unique needs of dissertation writers, information literacy, and undergraduate research have appeared in The Writing Center Journal, Education Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Perspectives in Undergraduate Research and Mentoring. In addition to composing her own scholarship, she has served as Co-editor of The Peer Review, Managing Editor of The Oakland Journal, and Editor of Re-Visions: Journal of the Women's Studies Program at Michigan State University and The Oil Pipeline Monitor. For the last decade, she has maintained WriteSpace, a website devoted to all things AP Lang. She also runs her own editing, ghostwriting, and consulting business.  When not teaching or consulting, Sherry is mentoring researchers, collaborating with high school teachers, or presenting her research at conferences. In her fleeting spare time, she takes long walks with Pike, her Standard Poodle, and composes her memoir, Married on a Monday—7 ½ Years Later—and Other Quirky Tales of an Academic Storyteller.


Instructor: Tim Moxey

Syllabus:  Eng Lang - New


English Language & Composition-New

Tim Moxey has been teaching at Lower Moreland High School (Huntingdon Valley, PA) for 31 years. He has been the AP English Language and Composition teacher for 20 years, and also teaches a British Literature survey course to college prep and honors students. He has served as a reader, table leader, and sample selector for the AP English Language exam since 2007, and consulted on the redesigned curriculum framework for the course in 2015.  He has a BA in English from La Salle University, where he was an adjunct lecturer in American Studies in 2017-2018, and an MA in English from Beaver College (now Arcadia University).  He has taught Freshman Composition at the University of Delaware.  Prior to his teaching career, Tim worked for a few years as a copywriter at a small ad agency outside of Philadelphia.  He has published in The English Journal and Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature, in addition to local newspapers. 

English Literature & Composition


Instructor: Brian Sztabnik

Syllabus: Eng Lit-New

English Literature & Composition-New

 Brian Sztabnik teaches AP English Literature and Composition at Miller Place High School in New York where he is also the boys' varsity basketball coach. He has served as the College Board Advisor for AP Literature and Composition for the past six years, he is a member of the AP Literature Test Development Committee, and is a part of the six-member College Board English Advisory Committee. He has been an AP Reader for the past six years and is the creator and moderator of the AP Literature Facebook group. He has presented at the AP Annual Conference, NCTE, and the New York State English Council Conference. In 2018, he was a finalist for the New York State Teacher of the Year. Brian is also the voice of Talks with Teachers, a top education podcast on iTunes as well as an award-winning blogger for Edutopia. His writings have appeared in EdWeek, Heineman, and Teaching Channel.


Instructor: Tamara Schoen

Syllabus: AP Eng Lit - Exp

English Literature & Composition-Experienced

Tammy Schoen is celebrating her 33rd year as a teacher.  She taught in South Carolina from 1991-1997 prior to moving to South Florida.  Tammy taught at Coconut Creek High School until helping to open Coral Glades High School in 2003.  At Coral Glades, Tammy teaches AP Literature (and whatever else they give her) and serves as the Literacy Department Chair.  Tammy has been active in many College Board programs:  serving as a reader for AP Literature since 2003, and an Early Table Leader for all three essay questions.  Tammy has led AP half-day and full-day workshops as a national consultant, taught summer APSI’s and is a proud member of the Design Team who worked to create more support content for AP teachers everywhere through the new CED and AP Classroom.  She has contributed to several textbooks, seeking to help design engaging programs for young scholars. In her spare time, Tammy enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with her family.