I’m excited to present the AP Biology Summer Institute at Augsburg!

I graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Medical Technology and worked as a Med Tech for 15 years. I got the bug to go back to school at the age of 36 to get my teaching certificate. After a move to Illinois from Michigan, I first became an adjunct professor in Anatomy and Physiology at the College of DuPage. I spent 4 years getting my Masters Degree in Biology at Northern Illinois University, on top of being a mom to two girls, teaching in the evening, and working at the local hospital part time. I became a high school teacher quite by accident and began teaching Intro to Physical Science and Biology to freshmen. After a few moves to different schools, I landed at the school where I would spend the rest of my career. I taught freshman Honors Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Medical Careers, and of course, AP Biology. In 2009, I was presented with the National Association of Biology Teachers’ Outstanding Biology Teacher Award. I retired in 2017, but wasn’t ready to walk away from education yet. I became an adjunct again, teaching Anatomy and Physiology for Elmhurst College. That ended when we moved back to our hometown in Iowa. One bright spot during COVID was teaching Intro Bio and Genome Biology online for St Xavier University in Chicago. I became a consultant for the College Board and enjoy presenting APSIs. I am a Teacher Ambassador for HHMI, presenting and writing science curriculum using Biointeractive resources. In my spare time, I love to travel; I want to go to all of the places! I also find time to visit my daughters and 6 grandkids.

Kathy Van Hoeck is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

Kelly Hemmerling has taught AP Calculus, Precalculus as an AP, honors and “regular” class, Geometry and Algebra 2 for the past 18 years at Milford High School in Highland, Michigan. In addition, she has been an adjunct instructor at Oakland Community College for over ten years.

As a College Board consultant, Kelly has served as a workshop presenter, teacher mentor, APSI leader and item writer for AP Precalculus. She has served as an AP Calculus exam reader for 4 years and is excited to have a leadership role in the 2024 AP Precalculus reading.

Kelly is co-author of “Fast Track to a 5” for AP Precalculus, scheduled for release by Cengage/National Geographic Publishing in January of 2025. Kelly is also content creator of the YouTube channel @MsHemmysAPPreCalc, a video log for teachers of AP Precalculus.

Kelly Hemmerling is teaching two workshops at Augsburg this summer. See our registration sites with the buttons below.

Shauna Aningo is a high school social studies teacher at Clayton High School in Clayton, Missouri. Actively shaping the minds of students, she has been involved in the successful implementation of the new AP African American Studies pilot. Shauna currently teaches World and US History II and AP African American Studies.

Shauna holds a BA in psychology, a MS.Ed. in Educational Psychology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction in Secondary Social Studies from Concordia University Portland. Prior to teaching at Clayton High School, Shauna taught at Normandy High School, St. Louis Community College at the Meramec campus, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Beyond the classroom, Shauna is a mother of seven and a lover of African American history, reading, dancing, and learning.

La Shauna Aningo is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

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.

Paul is a co-author of two chemistry laboratory manuals, an author and reviewer for the Journal of Chemical Education, and a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, often discussing techniques to improve molecular-level problem solving skills and ways to further the innovative use of technology in chemistry and physics. Paul is also a question leader at the annual AP Chemistry reading and served as a member of the AP Chemistry Test Development Committee for 10 years. Currently, he continues to help develop the Pre-AP Chemistry course for the College Board.

Away from school, Paul enjoys spending time with his wife, Lenore, and seeing the world through the eyes of his two children, Micah and Kiersten. He can be reached anytime at tvschem@sbcglobal.net

Paul Price is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

My teaching career began with elementary students in St. Louis, Missouri for 15 years. I jumped at the opportunity to teach high school students art, which included AP Studio Art and AP Art History for 16 years.
Sharing my passion of art and love of art history with high school students helped shape my own art. I was the Art Department Leader and Regional Leader for 7 years at Parkway West High. I have enjoyed being an AP Reader for Art and Design during the last 12 years. I had the opportunity to work as a Table Leader during the AP Art and Design Read in 2020-2023. For 2 years I taught high school students virtually, meeting 2 times a week and working towards their AP Art and Design exam. I have been a consultant for College Board during the last 5 years and still going. I guide high school art teachers through the expectations of the AP exam Art and Design exam, while sharing my experience and knowledge to help improve their AP Art students creative process and hopefully their AP scores.

I love to create art and will do so alongside of my participants. I pay attention to my journey, going on pathways through open doors, on long roads that go up and down hills and eventually find my way. I use oil paint, scrap canvas and lace to show my focus on doors, windows and pathways. I continue to think about texture and a simple color palette. I have had doors close as chapters end in my life and a window open, to give me a new focus on my journey and my paintings.

I am inspired by artists in present day and in the past. We have so much to learn from them. I have always been a sponge for knowledge of art history and it helps raise the bar for my participants and my students. Artists are deep thinkers and discover so much about their world. I enjoy presenting an artist and their works to others. We have to figure out what the artist is researching, questioning and thinking about.

Peggy Dunsworth is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

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.

Richard Cowles is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

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.

Susan Barber is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

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.

Tamra Carl is teaching two workshops at Augsburg this summer. See our registration sites with the buttons below.

Alex Schenk currently serves as a lead STEM teacher at Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, a magnet high school in St. Louis Public Schools. As the founding teacher of the computer science program, Alex has overseen growth in computer science from 30 students in 2016 to over 100 students in 2021.

Alex is a College Board® Consultant for AP® Computer Science Principles and has presented workshops for institutions across the country. He co-authored the textbook “Fast Track to a 5” for AP Computer Science Principles, published by Cengage. He has served as an AP® Reader and a member of the Standard Setting Committee for the course. As a member of the Instructional Design Team, Alex contributed activities for the AP® Computer Science Principles Course and Exam Description published by the College Board in Fall 2020. In Fall 2019, he attended the AP Computer Science Teacher Summit hosted at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

Alex Schenk is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.

I have taught AP Comparative Government for nearly 30 years and currently teach at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL.

I came into the course having no experience as a Comparative teacher or student, so I know how it feels to be both excited and overwhelmed in teaching this incredible course. I have also worked in numerous positions with College Board responsibilities related to AP Comparative including scoring exams, writing exam questions, developing FRQ essay rubrics, and developing the College Board course description. The APSIs I teach include the materials I use in my own semester-long course as well as instruction on how to best prepare your students for success on the exam based on my varied experiences.

Andrew Conneen is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.