Benefits
Pre-AP is about achieving results for all students. Here’s how the program is designed to accomplish that.
- Engaging instructional resources meet students where they are.
- Learning checkpoints show 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 5 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 Benefits | Teacher Benefits |
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Access & Opportunity: Instruction focuses on building important skills and confidence. |
Focus: Spend time on fewer, more essential concepts to focus and truly engage students. |
Perspectives
Hear how the Pre-AP Program has made an impact.
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Pre-AP Perspectives: Student Voices
Students from each Pre-AP course talk about their experiences. -
Pre-AP Empowers Educators to Drive Student Growth
The principal at a Pre-AP Partner School discusses the positive impact of the program. -
Pre-AP Empowers All Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning
A Pre-AP Biology teacher shares her observations of how Pre-AP helped students in her classroom. -
Pre-AP Challenges All Students to Build Their Critical Thinking Skills
A Pre-AP district coordinator explains how Pre-AP helped students develop the skill set needed to think for themselves.
Success Stories
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Cabot Freshman Academy
Leaders at the Cabot Public School District and the Cabot Freshman Academy share how Pre-AP has encouraged student collaboration and critical thinking in their 9th grade students, as well as teacher co-planning.
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Bloom Township High School District 206
Cynthia Gonzales, Director of College Career Readiness and Interventions, shares her district’s experience with Pre-AP as a way to encourage consistency, given their high student mobility rate.
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Highland High School District
Melinda Murphy, Principal, shares her district’s experience with Pre-AP as a way to provide consistency across courses so that, no matter the teacher, students in the same course would have access to the same learning outcomes.
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