AP® Summer InStItute - Goucher College

Vernon “Ted” Gott
Ted Gott is a certified AP consultant with experience conducting Pre-AP and AP Calculus
workshops for the College Board and an AP Calculus reader. He has been teaching all levels
of math at Southern High School in Harwood, Maryland, for 41 years, serves as the chair of
the math department, and teaches AP Calculus BC. Ted has been a College Board consultant
for eight years, delivering workshops and summer institutes in all areas of Pre-AP Math
and Vertical Teams around the country, including the College Board Annual Conference. He
has a B.A. in mathematics from Washington College.
Reg Hahne
Starting his teaching career in Australia, Reg Hahne immigrated to America and continued
his teaching career in the Howard County Public School System in Maryland. He is now at
Reservoir High School, where he is the Instructional Team Leader for the Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math (STEM) cluster. With 35 years as a classroom teacher, Reg’s experience
covers the gamut of instructional levels and disciplines, from kindergarten through
college. Reg has been an AP reader and College Board consultant for over a decade. He also
was a member of the AP Development Committee from 2002 to 2006.
Geraldine Hastings
Geri Hastings has been a high school social studies teacher in Baltimore County, Maryland,
since 1974, an AP U.S. History teacher since 1983, and chair of the social studies department
at Catonsville High School since 1998. The National Council for the Social Studies named her
Outstanding Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the Year for 2003-04, and the Daughters
of the American Revolution named her Outstanding National U.S. History Teacher of the
Year for 2004-05. Ms. Hastings has taught an AP U.S. History Summer Institute since 1995
at Goucher College and has conducted summer institutes at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania;
the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix; Bellevue, Washington; and Texas Christian
University. In addition, she is a question leader for the AP U.S. History exam grading and a
workshop consultant for a number of College Board programs, including AP U.S. History,
Social Studies Vertical Teams, and SOAPSTONE. She is a member of the AP U.S. History
Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee working on the new AP curriculum to
be implemented during the 2014-15 academic year. Geri also serves as a steering committee
member for the AP National Conference, to be held in summer 2012 at Disney World.
John Hnatow Jr.
John Hnatow retired from public school teaching in 2008 after teaching chemistry for 36
years at Emmaus High School in the East Penn School District in Emmaus, PA, where he
was also chairperson of the science department. John is a Chemistry and Pre-AP Science
education instructor for APSI programs at Goucher College and the Lewes Institute. In
addition, he is an experienced AP Chemistry and Pre-AP Science consultant, a chemistry
workshop leader, and an AP exam reader, a table and question leader, and he has served
on the Chemistry Development Committee. John is co-chair of the AP Chemistry Redesign
Committee, a member of the AP Chemistry Redesign Curriculum Development Committee,
and is a member of the College Board’s Science Academic Advisory Committee. John is
a mentor teacher for New Orleans’ public and charter schools, and he presents Saturday
sessions for the REACH program in New York City. He is a Dreyfus Master Teacher and was
team leader of the WWNFF CHEM4 Chemistry team, with whom he presented over 27 weeklong
TORCH institutes for chemistry teachers throughout the country. John has presented
numerous technology workshops throughout the nation, including TI calculator and CBL,
LabPro, LabQuest, Hypercard, Graphical Analysis, Concept Mapping, and multimedia
workshops for science teachers. He has presented numerous topics at American Chemical
Society (ACS) meetings, chemistry education conferences, and demonstrated in the Flinnsponsored,
“An Incredible Evening of Chemistry,” at National Science Teachers Association
(NSTA) meeting in Boston. Several notable national awards include the 2004 Discovery
Center Science Teacher Hall of Fame Inductee, 1996 Chemical Manufacturer’s Association
(CMA) Catalyst Award, the 1995 Tandy Technology Scholars Award, and the 1987 Presidential
Award for Excellence in Science Teaching.
Kevin Howard
Kevin Howard has taught English for 22 years in Fairfax County, Virginia. Over the past 10
years, he has presented College Board seminars on teaching the AP Language and AP
English Literature courses, analytical reading strategies, and pre-AP English curriculum and
development. He has also been a reader for the AP English Language and Composition
exam. Recently, Kevin has worked as part of the REACH and VASS programs, which attempt
to bring the rich AP English curriculum to urban and rural high schools. Additionally, he
was selected to present a one-day AP English Language workshop at the 2009 National AP
convention.
Yu Bong Ko
Yu Bong Ko teaches AP Art History at Tappan Zee High School in New York and is a lecturer
in art history at Dominican College in Blauvelt, New York. As a presenter and session leader
at College Board-endorsed AP Teacher Conferences and Summer Institutes since 1995,
his travels have taken him to schools, colleges and museums where he has worked with
hundreds of teachers from coast to coast. Yu Bong continues to read AP examinations and
has served, since 1994, as reader and as a table and a question leader. Currently, he serves
on the College Board’s AP Art History Curriculum Review Committee as well as on the Test
Development Committee as its co-chair, where he was also served as a committee member
between 1994 through 1998. A former College Board advisor to AP Art History Content and
Professional Development, Yu Bong has contributed to two curriculum modules publications
for teachers on thematic and cross-cultural approaches to teaching AP Art History. He is a
graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities, where he studied painting, art history and art
education.
Ane Lintvedt
Ane Lintvedt has taught European and world history at the McDonogh School in suburban
Baltimore for over 20 years, and is currently the department chair. She has scored both the
AP European and World History exams, and has been with the World History AP exam reading
as a table and question leader since its inception. She served on the Test Development
Committee for the SAT II in World History and on the College Board AP World Redesign
Commission. Ane has written instructor’s guides and student guides for several of the texts
used in AP World History and has written many articles and papers on world history topics
and pedagogy. Ane is currently the secretary of the World History Association. She has
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