As an AP coordinator, I’m regularly called upon to employ innovative leadership strategies that encourage powerful instruction in AP classrooms, identify student needs and help teachers to modify instruction accordingly. I have developed Hudson’s AP plan and facilitated the review of class, school, and district AP data by my AP teachers and empowered them to write goals for class and school AP participation and performance. In addition, I have promoted professionalism and collegiality among our AP teachers, making our AP program elite among the staff, and have marketed AP to our students in much the same way, working to change a culture that previously hasn’t valued academic rigor or excellence. I developed and delivered professional development based on teacher-articulated needs; I created a professional development for AP teachers in which they worked in content area teams to articulate the essential skills needed to be successful in AP courses and the best practices to be utilized in AP courses and the prerequisite courses. My work with AP has increased the number of courses offered from 11 in 2013 to 14 offered in 2015 and the number of exams taken from 233 in 2013 to 352 in 2015.
The following is evidence of my work with AP at HHS as an instructional leader:
Allison Poindexter 