Academic Dean Newsletter

With the May 2025 exam administration, nine AP® Exams will be fully digital:

Join this session with Brandon and YouTube Teacher sensations Timm Freitas and Beth Hall as they provide a few of their top strategies for the exam.

Join us live on January 30 at 8 p.m. EST! Register here!

Join Brandon and experienced teacher and consultant Celine Gomez for this session focused on a few common sense approaches to help AP Lit students get past their fear of poetry.

Join us live on Tuesday, January 30 at 6:45 p.m. EST! Register here!

AP Seminar is a yearlong, interdisciplinary course most frequently taught as an English course. AP Seminar gives students the opportunity to develop and practice skills in research and effective communication through speaking and writing.

Why Expand:

• Expands access to serve more students. A more diverse group of students take AP Seminar than any other AP course and exam score gaps are smaller across Black, Latino and White students than any other course.

• Prepares students for futured advanced courses. 10th graders who take AP Seminar go on to earn higher scores on AP English, History and Government exams taken in 11th and 12th grade.

• Improves outcomes. AP Seminar students outperform non-AP students in their first-year college GPA and have a higher likelihood of persisting to the second year in college than their non-AP peers.

• AP Seminar has great outcomes for students as well as great results for subsequent course taking/success for all student groups. During the 2023 AP Exam administration, 84% (52/62) of students earned a qualifying score of 3 or higher. (SAISD Data)

• Based on the most recent AP Potential data, San Antonio ISD has 1115 students that demonstrate potential for AP Seminar

• Based on SAT®, PSAT/NMSQT®, PSAT™ 10 scores from this year

• One piece of data to help see what AP courses students might do well in. Helpful for recruiting and master schedule considerations.

• How is the campus recruiting and encouraging our black students to enroll in AP courses?

Link to reports

If you are new to AP, this session is for you! In this one-hour Zoom, we will review resources and supports for AP teachers and AP coordinators found on AP Central: apcentral.collegeboard.org.

• January 22, 2024 (4:00 – 5:00 p.m.) - CLICK HERE to Register

In this session, participants will learn about the updates to SAT Suite K12 Reporting, including updated reports and features. Additionally, time will be spent learning and discussing how the new Knowledge and Skills report, Skills Insight Tool, and SAT Suite Question Bank can be engaged to impact curriculum, instruction, and student achievement. Participants will also learn how they can access AP Potential, a free, online tool that allows schools to generate rosters of students who are likely to score a 3 or higher on a given AP® Exam based on their performance on the PSAT/NMSQT®, PSAT™ 8/9, PSAT™ 10, or SAT®.

• January 31, 2024 (9:30 – 10:30 a.m.) - CLICK HERE to Register

Are you the only person managing SAT school day for your campus? Come spend an hour on Zoom making sure you know where to find what you need and clarifying what you need to do.

While the sessions will not be recorded, all resources shared will be sent out to all who register for the event.

• February 6, 2024 (9:30 – 10:30 a.m.) - CLICK HERE to Register

• Official Digital SAT Prep webinar from November 2023- webinar recording

The purpose of this program is to increase underrepresented populations participation in the transportation profession by supporting increased diversity at the undergraduate level.

There are 4 cornerstones to this program:

· Financial support (a total of up to $20,000 in scholarship support: up to $4000 annually per student for up to 5 years of undergraduate enrollment)

· ITE Student Chapter engagement

· Mentoring

· Internship Opportunities

This program is open to any U.S. high school student or community college student planning to transfer to a 4-year university, who is of African-American; Native American, Alaskan, and Hawaiian; or Hispanic/Latino heritage with an interest in a career in transportation and seeking to study transportation engineering, planning, or in a related-field at a school with an established ITE Student Chapter.

The deadline for all applicants is 3/15/2024. All of the eligibility requirements and application information is available on www.ite.org/diversityscholar.

The first 3 Deans that email kcline1@saisd.net with 3 take-aways from the newsletter will receive a prize.