AP Seminar: English: Chat with a Content Expert

Whether you’re considering AP Seminar: English, have committed to offering it and want practical advice on getting started, or have questions about the course and how it supports your school’s goals, our content experts can help.

You can schedule a one-to-one Zoom chat for your own questions, or a group chat to bring teachers and school leaders into the same conversation, so everyone hears the same answers. There’s no charge and no commitment to decide anything. 

You can ask the experts:  

• Whether AP Seminar: English satisfies your local English requirements, including course coding, alignment to your state’s English language arts (ELA) standards, and any teacher credentialing rules that apply
• What teachers should do to prepare to teach AP Seminar: English, including the training required before their first year, and what resources are available to support a successful course launch
• How literary texts fit into the course, whether as thematic anchor texts or as excerpts
• Where instruction on the English writing types like rhetorical analysis, literary analysis, and creative or narrative writing can fit into the year
• What Performance Task 1, the Team Project and Presentation, and Performance Task 2, the Individual Research-Based Essay and Presentation, require across the January–April task windows
• What the AP Capstone policies on plagiarism and generative AI require of students and teachers, including the checkpoints that determine whether performance tasks receive a score
• What instructional shifts matter most when moving from a traditional or honors English section to AP Seminar: English, and how to support students who are new to advanced coursework
• What the AP Seminar: English End-of-Course Exam assesses, and how to align instruction and formative assessments to it 

Meet the Content Experts for AP Seminar: English

Get to know our AP Seminar: English content experts and their areas of expertise. Schedule a chat—you’ll choose a one-to-one or group session and a time that works for you. 

JoEllen Santulli
	Role: AP Seminar: English teacher, AP reader Home State: Virginia School Setting: Suburban Expertise: AP Seminar as English, AP Seminar as English 10, incorporating literature in AP Seminar Schedule a Chat with JoEllen

Amber Stevener
	Role: AP Seminar: English teacher, AP reader Home State: Texas School Setting: Suburban Expertise: AP Seminar as English, AP Seminar as English II, incorporating literature in AP Seminar, scaffolding ELA instruction Schedule a Chat with Amber