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Advanced placement Summer Institute Economics Dick Brunelle is the Executive Director of the Economic Education Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting high school economic programs by providing professional development and support to high school teachers. He also teaches economic courses at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. He taught AP Economics at Ashland High School, where he also was the chair of the Social Studies Department before retiring from that position. Dick has conducted economic institutes throughout the U.S. and Canada for more than ten years, and has served for 5 years on the Test Development Committee for AP Economics. ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION John Brassil, of John Bapst High School, Bangor, Maine, has taught AP English Language & Composition for more than 20 years. A table leader at the AP English Language and Composition reading, he has conducted AP summer institute sessions and professional development workshops throughout New England and in Canada. He also mentors new AP English Language teachers in Maine. ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION Sharon Hamilton has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois. She taught English at several colleges, at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, where she taught AP English for twenty-six years and, for twenty-one years, also headed the English Department. She served as a Reader for the English Language and English Literature Advanced Placement Exams for eight years (2000-2007). A College Board Consultant since 2001, Sharon has taught day-long workshops for AP teachers and summer workshops at the Taft Educational Center. She has presented at several educational conferences, including the AP Annual Conference in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. She has authored five books, including Shakespeare’s Daughters (McFarland, 2003) and Essential Literary Terms (Peoples and Norton, 2007). ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Jeanne Kaidy teaches biology and AP Environmental Science at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, N.Y., where she serves as chair of the science department. Jeanne also is an adjunct instructor of environmental science at Monroe Community College. She has participated as a reader for the College Board for the past five years and is an AP consultant. Jeanne is co-author of the test bank and instructor’s manual that accompanies the most recent edition of the AP textbook, Living in the Environment, by G. Tyler Miller, and is a contributing author to the AP lab manual for environmental science, an inquiry-based lab manual that accompanies the text. European History Dr. Lenore Schneider has taught AP European History for 15 years at New Canaan High School, Conn., where she also teaches AP World History. She has served as table leader for ten years at the scoring of the national AP test, been a 6
july 2012 www.sjcme.edu/apsi member of the AP European History Test Development Committee, and taught numerous workshops and institutes in the past years. FRENCH LANGUAGE & Culture Mona Mulhair has taught French at Gavilan and Cabrillo Community Colleges and presently teaches AP French Language and Literature at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, Calif. She has been the world language mentor for the district and is presently the department chair at Las Lomas. She has been a reader and consultant for the College Board since 1995. She was a member of the test development committee and has been a table leader since 2001. Mona has conducted several curricula and grading workshops nationwide as well as internationally – Paris/France and Montreal/Canada. She has presented many five-day workshops. In 2002, she presented AP French Language and Literature in the First National AP Conference in Chicago and was certified as a National Consultant Leader for the College Board. Mona was Teacher of the Year for the Acalanes District in 1994, and she has been the recipient of numerous Awards of Excellence in her field. Latin: Vergil Jill Crooker taught Latin, all levels including AP Vergil and AP Latin Literature, for more than 25 years at Pittsford Mendon High School, N.Y. She has served as reader, table leader, and presently question leader for samples for more than 10 years. She has conducted numerous AP summer institute sessions and has led professional development workshops in Maine and New York, as well as at The American Classical League Institutes for many years. She serves as the College Board Advisor on the AP Latin Test Development Committee and has responsibility for the professional development needs of teachers. Physics B Jiang Yu is a professor of physics at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. She has been a physics exam reader for the AP program since 2000, and currently serves as the chief reader designate for the AP Physics reading. Jiang is a College Board certified workshop consultant and has led many AP Physics workshops and institutes. She is also a certified AP Physics syllabi auditor. Psychology Al Kirton has taught both General Psychology and AP Psychology at Natick High School in Massachusetts during his 34-year tenure there. He has been both a Table Leader and Reader for the AP exam since 1993 and has been a College Board consultant conducting both AP workshops and summer institutes for the past 17 years. Al is a past recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools Excellence in Teaching Award. In addition to his involvement with AP Psychology, Al is currently a supervisor of student teachers for Simmons College in Boston. 7
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