John Unruh-Friesen has taught AP® Government & Politics since 1997 and has been at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, MN since 2001. John is a College Board consultant for both AP® United States Government and AP® Comparative Government and has served as a national exam reader. John has loved technology ever since he found an Atari 2600 under the Christmas Tree in 1981 and is always looking for ways to integrate technology into his lessons.
John Unruh-Friesen is teaching three workshops at Augsburg this summer. See our registration sites with the buttons below.
Karen Hyers has taught mathematics at Tartan High School in Oakdale, MN since 1997. Karen began teaching calculus in 1989 at the University of Minnesota while completing her MS and MEd in mathematics. She has taught AP Calculus since 1998.
Paul D. Price is the Science Department Chairman at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas, where he has taught chemistry, AP Chemistry, physics, and AP Physics since 1998. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rumor has it that Paul’s courses are difficult because he is a stickler for understanding “the why” in chemistry. Fortunately, students say his classes are always entertaining. In 2004 the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society honored Paul with the Werner Schulz Award for Outstanding High School Chemistry Teaching. He has also been awarded the ACS Southwest Region Teacher of the Year in 2005 and was named one of the top teachers in Fort Worth by Fort Worth, Texas Magazine in 2014.
After graduating from the University of Texas, Richard Cowles began in his education career in Central Africa with the United States Peace Corps. He spent three years in Chad in the village of Pala teaching middle school mathematics. Since starting the AP Statistics program at McCallum High School in the fall of 2000, Richard has built the program into one of the largest in the Austin school district. In his twenty years as a College Board consultant, Richard is often exploring the use of technology, discovery and graphic organizers in aiding the understanding of statistics. He is lucky to have an in-house consulting team consisting of his 18 year old daughter Samantha and 14 year old fraternal twins, Benjamin and Megan.
Susan Barber teaches AP English Literature at Midtown High School in Atlanta, Georgia and serves as the College Board Advisor for AP Literature and on the NCTE Secondary Steering Committee. She has offered training at NCTE, GCTE, and the Folger Shakespeare Library and frequently leads ELA workshops across the country. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Edutopia, and she is the co-author of The Norton Guide to AP Literature. Susan, however, is most proud of the work she does on a daily basis in E216 and never tires of the beauty and chaos of the classroom. You can find her along with Brian Sztabnik sharing their thoughts on their site MuchAdoAboutTeaching.com.
Tamra Carl has taught AP Micro for 20+ years and AP Macro for 10+ years, and she has been a reader in AP Micro. She serves on the AP Micro Test Development Committee, served on the AP Micro Content Development Team for three years, and she helped create the AP Daily Micro videos in 2020. In addition to teaching, Tamra has written curriculum for Marginal Revolution University, presented with the St. Louis Fed at the AP Annual Conference in 2018, and presented at NCSS in 2020 and 2022. Her student teams have won the Illinois State Econ Challenge twice and was a national finalist at the Euro Challenge. Tamra holds a Masters in Education from DePaul University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan.