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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:
New is designed specifically for teachers with 0-3 years of experience teaching the specified AP subject.
Experienced requires the participants have taught the specified AP subject for a minimum of 3 years.
Please understand that years teaching AP may be different than total years of teaching experience.
AP African American Studies
AP African American Studies
Instructor: Tori Sparks
Syllabus: AP African American Studies
AP African American Studies
AP African American Studies
Instructor information coming soon.
AP Human Geography
AP Human Geography
Instructor: Laura Kmetz
Syllabus: AP Human Geography
AP Human Geography
AP Human Geography
Instructor Information coming soon.
AP Psychology
AP Psychology
Instructor: Joseph Swope
Syllabus: AP Psychology
AP Psychology
AP Psychology
Instructor information coming soon.
AP Comparative Government & Politics
AP Comparative Government & Politics
Instructor: Thomas Kuhn
Syllabus: AP Comparative Government & Politics
AP Comparative Government & Politics
AP Comparative Government & Politics
Instructor information coming soon.
AP U.S. Government & Politics
AP U.S. Government & Politics
Instructor: Kenneth Spiegelman
Syllabus: AP U.S. Government & Politics
AP U.S. Government & Politics
AP U.S. Government & Politics
Instructor information coming soon.
AP U.S. History
AP U.S. History
Instructor: Christine Custred
Syllabus: AP U.S. History
AP U.S. History
AP U.S. History
Christine Custred has taught Advanced Placement (AP) United States History and AP World History in Oklahoma for over 20 years. She holds a Master’s degree in Education Administration and in school counseling (M.Ed.) and is a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT).
Ms. Custred has been a College Board consultant since 2000, presenting at numerous College Board institutes including international institutes. She has been an AP Summer Institute consultant since 2003, presenting at well over 50 summer institutes. She co-authored the Research and Education Association (REA) test prep book for AP United States History, she wrote the AP review questions for the AP edition of the Making America textbook, she co-authored the Fast Track to a 5 for AP World History and was a contributing author of the teacher’s edition of the Ways of the World textbook. She has developed and team taught a combination course that bridges AP U. S. History and AP English Language and has co-presented at a Southwest Regional College Board conference and presented at the AP annual conference in Orlando in July, 2019. She served as an AP mentor from 2015-2017, this mentoring program, designed and offered by the College Board, entailed conducting once a month webinars with new AP United States history teachers. She has served as a member of the consultant advisory panel for the College Board. She has served as a reader for the AP World History exam and is currently a table leader at the AP United States History reading.
AP World History
AP World History
Instructor: William Zeigler
Syllabus: AP World History: Modern
AP World History: Modern
AP World History: Modern
Bill Zeigler lives in San Diego with his wife, Marianne. He earned his BA in history and MA in education from San Diego State University. He is a veteran history-social sciences and English teacher with over 35 years of experience. Bill currently serves as the Assistant to the Chief Reader for AP World History.
Bill has always had a keen interest in world history. He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation at Princeton, studying the “long nineteenth century” in world history, and a fellow in a two-year NEH program to explore India and China at Cal Poly Pomona. Bill has worked with QFI and the Solanki Project to increase historical awareness of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, respectively. He has led national and international sessions in History-Social Science and Vertical Teaming in Social Sciences for the College Board since 2000. Bill has presented at the World History Association, National Council for the Social Studies, and the AP Annual Conference, and is a College Board consultant in World and US History and Pre-AP World History and Geography with presentations worldwide. He also serves as a Mentor for World History and was a lead developer for the Project-Based Learning curriculum in AP World History. Bill has served as a member of the program committee and the executive board of the World History Association and the program committee for the AP Annual Conference.
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