Angelann Stephens has been an AP English Language and Composition instructor since 2005. She has also been a university adjunct composition lecturer, teaching Freshman Composition. A 23-year veteran of the English Language Arts (ELA) classroom, Angelann has taught primarily in urban and inner-city classrooms. She has helped ethnically diverse students navigate the AP English classroom using robust scaffolding techniques to bridge students’ academic needs with the demands of the AP English course. Angelann has served as a Department Chair, a curriculum writer for Georgia’s SLO Assessments for Atlanta Public Schools, and has worked for the College Board’s ReadiStep (Reading) test as a consultant in its initial phase. Angelann has been a continuous AP Reader since 2016.
Angelann has presented at several of the College Board’s National Conferences. Some of her workshops included “Using American Protest Literature to Teach Rhetoric” (2015); “The Interactive Notebook for Scaffolding Pre-AP Content for Non-traditional Students” (2013); “Making the Synthetic Argument Applicable to Younger Students” (2010); “Teaching the Research Paper to ‘At-Risk’ Students Using Children’s Literature” (2008). She has also presented at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference as well as the Georgia Educational Technology Conference (GaETC) and Metro RESA (Griffin). Her most recent presentation was for NCTE’s Annual Conference in 2023. Angelann is well-versed in instructional technology and taught for five years in Fulton County Schools’ Fulton Virtual Schools program, blending technology and ELA. She is currently an English teacher at Creekside High School for Fulton County Schools.
Angelann has also been the recipient of several nationally recognized professional development programs for teachers: the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Seminar, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum Summer Institute: Teaching the Humanities through Art Seminar (SAAM).
A certified College Board Consultant, Angelann earned a BA in English from UNC-Charlotte, an MA in English and African-American Literature from North Carolina A&T State University, an Ed.S. in Teaching and Learning from Liberty University, and in 2022, she earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Students (Social Foundations) from Georgia State University. She is also endorsed in Gifted and Talented from Valdosta State University.
Angelann Stephens is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.