Benefits of Pre-AP - Pre-AP

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
Access & Opportunity: Instruction focuses on building important skills and confidence. Critical Thinking Skills: Students learn to apply evidence and think critically, not just memorize facts and figures. Cross-Curricular Alignment: Engage with interdisciplinary skills in all of their courses, reinforcing conceptual learning.	Focus: Spend time on fewer, more essential concepts to focus and truly engage students. Assessments for Learning: Use learning checkpoints and performance tasks to quickly check for understanding, focus on the right areas for improvement, and measure student growth. Engaging Model Lessons: Work with course content that features a curated selection of high-quality texts, sources, and authentic contexts.

Student Benefits

Teacher Benefits

Access & Opportunity: Instruction focuses on building important skills and confidence.
Critical Thinking Skills: Students learn to apply evidence and think critically, not just memorize facts and figures.
Cross-Curricular Alignment: Engage with interdisciplinary skills in all of their courses, reinforcing conceptual learning.

Focus: Spend time on fewer, more essential concepts to focus and truly engage students.
Assessments for Learning: Use learning checkpoints and performance tasks to quickly check for understanding, focus on the right areas for improvement, and measure student growth.
Engaging Model Lessons: Work with course content that features a curated selection of high-quality texts, sources, and authentic contexts.

Perspectives

Hear how the Pre-AP Program has made an impact.

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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