About AP Summer Institutes

AP Summer Institutes offer the most thorough professional learning available for AP educators. Attendees engage in 30 hours of content-rich training designed to strengthen how they teach their AP courses.

You’ll leave your AP Summer Institute (APSI) experience with ready-to-use strategies and pedagogical tools from an experienced educator within the AP community.

At an AP Summer Institute, you’ll:

• Get to know each section of the course and exam description (CED), while making connections to the curricular requirements
• Explore AP resources such as unit guides, topic questions, progress checks, question bank, instructional planning reports, syllabus development guides, sample syllabi, and the online AP Community
• Begin to develop a course plan by unit and topic that incorporates the full scope of your AP course into your school’s academic calendar
• Examine formative and summative assessment questions to identify the targeted content and skill pairings
• Create lesson plans to reinforce content and skill connections
• Practice applying the scoring guidelines from the most recent AP Exam to samples of student work
• Identify student strengths and weaknesses using data available through AP Classroom and Instructional Planning Reports
• Explore ready-to-use strategies, instructional materials, and pedagogical tools for the content and skills required for success in your AP course
• Develop meaningful connections within the AP community

Dates, Locations, and Registration

Use our AP Professional Learning Calendar to find an AP Summer Institute. Search by AP subject area and then follow the instructions to register.

AP Summer Institute dates and locations are posted as host institutions schedule sessions. Each APSI independently handles their own session schedules and registration; College Board does not own or manage any of the institutes. We don’t control when or if an APSI will offer a specific session.

All AP Summer Institutes for the year will be added to the calendar by February. If you don’t see a session matching your criteria, you may need to widen your search to a different timeframe or location. Contact the institutes directly with any registration or scheduling questions.

Fees and Tuition Waivers

AP Summer Institute fees vary by host institution and College Board offers tuition fee waivers for qualifying teachers. The tuition fee waiver application is open January through May each year, or until all waivers have been distributed.

Summer Institutes for AP Capstone

Teachers of AP Capstone™ courses—AP Seminar and AP Research—are required to take part in professional learning at select AP Summer Institutes. Learn more about AP Capstone professional learning.

Host Institutions

To ensure quality and consistency, each AP Summer Institute is managed by staff at a host institution endorsed by College Board. Learn more about what it takes to host an AP Summer Institute, and see the full list of AP Summer Institute host institutions.