Pre-AP
Pre-AP Breakdown
All freshmen attending Milwaukee High School of the Arts will be enrolled in Pre-Ap classes. The Pre-AP Program offers consistent, high standards in focused courses that help build, strengthen, and reinforce students’ content knowledge and skills. Pre-AP courses get students ready for AP and other college-level coursework. Pre-AP courses are designed to be the standard, baseline course in each respective subject. Pre-AP is for ALL students.
Pre-AP Shared Instructional Principles
Close Observation and Analysis
Higher-Order Questioning
Evidence-Based Writing
Academic Conversations
Pre-AP Program
Pre-AP is about achieving results for all students. Here’s how the program is designed to accomplish that.
Engaging resources meet students where they are.
Meaningful feedback shows teachers where each student needs additional support and focus.
Effective practice helps every student to build, strengthen, and master content knowledge and skills.
Flexibility in instructional resources honors the skill and authority of teachers.
Challenging coursework emphasizes key literacy, quantitative, and analysis skills across all five disciplines and reinforces these skills in multiple classroom experiences.
Open access—a program requirement—means that Pre-AP courses and their high-quality instruction and assessments will serve all students
Student Comments
“Pre-Ap classes have helped to teach me individual and group skills that will help me better prepare for a successful future”
-Alexander Eberhage, Visual Arts Major
“Pre-AP teaches advanced skills that help to make more difficult material understandable. It has been very helpful to be able to apply these skills across the different classes that I have. .”
-Amya Camberos, Visual Arts Major
Principal Message
“Pre-AP is a new program offered by the College Board. The program was developed to strengthen student’s college readiness skills to prepare them for college-level coursework. Our goal is that Pre-AP will develop the skills and confidence to succeed in Advanced Placement courses and other related college-level coursework. Students at MHSA are able to experience the rigor of Pre-AP instruction in both their core academic areas and art area majors”
-Mr. Farris, MHSA Principal
Pre-AP Contacts:
Pre-AP/AP Coordinator: Ms. Dean
Email: deansx@milwaukee.k12.wi.us