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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.
Mathematics
Mathematics
Instructor: Laszlo Nagy
Syllabus: AP Calculus AB/BC Combined-Experienced
AP Calculus AB/BC Combined-Experienced
AP Calculus AB/BC Combined-Experienced
Instructor information coming soon.
Instructor: Brian Shay
Syllabus: AP Calculus AB/BC Combined - New
AP Calculus AB/BC Combined - New
AP Calculus AB/BC Combined - New
Instructor information coming soon.
Instructor: Crissie Ricketts
Syllabus: AP Precalculus
AP Precalculus
AP Precalculus
Crissie Ricketts is in her first year teaching at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, following 23 years of experience at McLean High School in Fairfax County, VA. She has taught nearly every high school math curriculum course, including AP Precalculus, AP Calculus AB and BC, AP Statistics, and AP Computer Science Principles. Crissie was an AP Reader for Calculus for 5 years and is a Question Leader for AP Precalculus. She became a College Board consultant in 2023. Crissie is co-author of “Fast Track to a 5: AP Precalculus,” published October 2024, and “Fast Track to a 5: AP Calculus,” with publication date early 2026. She is also a member of the Power Hour team for AP Precalculus, a College Board sponsored professional learning community that supports teachers as they navigate the AP Precalculus course.
Crissie holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a Master of International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina. She entered education after working for ten years in the business arena. After becoming a teacher, Crissie completed her Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Capella University. Since 2016, Crissie has taught math with NC Virtual, the second-largest virtual high school in the nation, and has served as an Instructional Leader for NC Virtual since 2017.
Crissie was awarded the Fairfax County Public Schools Excellence Award in 2024. She was named the 2015 and 2024 Teacher of the Year by those graduating classes of McLean High School, and also won the Norma Dektor Award in 2018, given to the teacher at McLean High School who has had the greatest impact on the graduating class.
Crissie has three adult children, a husband of 29 years, and two dogs. She enjoys reading and traveling in her free time.
Instructor: Penny Smeltzer
Syllabus: AP Statistics
AP Statistics
AP Statistics
Instructor information coming soon.
AP Computer Science
AP Computer Science
Instructor: Jill Westerlund
Syllabus: AP Computer Science Principles
AP Computer Science Principles
AP Computer Science Principles
Jill Westerlund is an instructor of computer science (CS) at the University of Alabama (UA) where she teaches courses for undergraduate CS students and undergraduate and graduate pre-service education majors seeking a CS certificate endorsement. Jill’s work at UA also includes supporting teachers and students through funded grant projects focused on broadening access to K-12 CS education.
In 2017, Jill was selected as Alabama’s Aspirations in Computing Educator of the Year by the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT). She served in reading leadership and as a reader for AP® CS Principles as well as on the College Board’s Development Committee during 2018 - 2023. Currently, Jill serves as the lead consultant for the College Board’s CS A course, as a College Board CS syllabus reviewer, and as a workshop consultant for both AP® CS Principles and AP® CS A. During 2023, Jill served on the College Board’s AP® Educator Advisory Committee on Generative AI.
An avid knitter and quilt maker, Jill lives in Homewood, Alabama, and in Farmersville, Texas, with her husband, Eric, and their basset hound, Louie.
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