College Board Professional Learning
College Board offers both face-to-face and online professional learning for new and experienced AP teachers as well as AP coordinators. Led by experienced instructors, AP professional learning provides educators with the support and training needed to successfully teach an AP course.
AP Summer Institutes
June–August
AP Summer Institutes are offered online and in person, with 30+ hours of content-rich training on the course and exam, use of AP resources, and strategies for strengthening teaching and learning. Participant grants are available for qualifying teachers.
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AP Summer Institutes
Learn more about these summer workshops, which offer the most thorough professional learning available for AP educators.
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AP Participant Grants
Each year, College Board awards grants for qualifying teachers to attend an AP Summer Institute.
AP Project Based Learning Series
The AP Project Based Learning Series is a one-year program based on powerful research showing that project based learning can improve student performance on the AP Exams. Teachers engage in four days of online or in-person professional learning during an AP Summer Institute, followed by up to five online support sessions throughout the school year.
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AP Project Based Learning Series
The AP Project Based Learning Series helps teachers implement an engaging and student-centered project based instructional approach in their classrooms.
AP Workshops
September–April
AP workshops are one- and two-day synchronous sessions that help you prepare to teach a specific AP course. Led by experienced AP teachers, the workshops cover the course and exam description, AP Classroom resources, and instructional strategies.
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Attend an AP Workshop
Strengthen your teaching during the school year at a one- or two-day workshop. Offered online and in person in select locations, AP workshops cover the course and exam description, AP Classroom resources, and instructional strategies.
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Host an AP Workshop
Bring an AP workshop to teachers in your school, district, or state. Course-specific and cross-curricular workshops can be tailored to your goals and hosted in person or online.
AP in Practice Series
August–April
The AP in Practice Series helps you navigate instructional decisions during the first five years of teaching your AP course. It includes five 2-hour virtual sessions that are connected to your course and timed to what you’re teaching throughout the school year.
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About the AP in Practice Series
Learn how to get course-specific support timed to what you're teaching, from fall planning through spring exam preparation.
Online Modules
Working with Challenging Primary Sources
These free online resources offer strategies for teaching reading and writing focused on challenging primary sources. The modules were developed for AP U.S. History teachers, but the nonfiction reading and writing strategies they explore will be useful for teachers of a variety of AP subjects:
Teaching and Assessing
These optional teacher modules have been discontinued due to low use.
AP Community
Once you sign in to this online space and join the community for your AP course, you can:
- Share real-time strategies, ask questions, and collaborate with teachers worldwide.
- Search, add, and rate teacher resources with your peers in the resource library.
- Follow daily or weekly digests to keep up with your community, wherever you are.
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AP Community
AP teachers, coordinators, and administrators can connect in this collaborative online space.