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AP Consortium PurposeIncrease the accessibility to advanced placement courses for Wisconsin’s rural, low income, and minority students by using “real time” classroom instruction deliv

Equal Access Means Equal Opportunity for All:

Creating a Real-Time Statewide Advanced

Placement Consortium

February, 2003

AP Consortium Purpose

Increase the accessibility to advanced placement courses for Wisconsin’s

rural, low income, and minority

students by using “real time”

classroom instruction delivered over Wisconsin’s fiber optic BadgerNet.

Project Concept

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AP STUDENT

AP CONSORTIUM

TEACHER

SCHOOL

COUNSELOR

UW-MADISON (TRAINING) CEW ADVANCED PLACEMENT CONSORTIUM

• Almost a quarter of Wisconsin’s public secondary

schools cannot/do not offer a single AP course

• Of the remaining schools that offer AP courses, ¾ offer only one or two per year.

• RESULT: Talented and ambitious students in these

schools are at a distinct disadvantage when they compete against their college bound counterparts from schools

with greater accessibility to AP course work.

Inaccessibility Dilemma

Inaccessibility Cycle

• School size, student interest, and local budget resources

determine availability of local AP courses in Wisconsin

• Low student interest for AP courses in rural or urban schools

indirectly excludes learners who wish to take rigorous, college level courses while in high school.

• Low student participation rates in AP

courses make it exceedingly difficult to

allocate scarce local teacher resources to AP

instruction.

• Unavailability of AP courses preclude

guidance counselors from promoting these

types of courses to their students.

Example of the Impact That This Inaccessibility Cycle Can Have

"I just wanted to drop you a line to say that I find your AP project very interesting- I come from a small, rural high school that did not offer any AP courses In fact, I was told by the middle school guidance counselor that high school students weren't capable of handling

college level work, so AP was a bad idea!

However, in the summer of 1991 I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a pilot program

at the University of Iowa called the Advanced Placement Academy The Academy consisted of

AP classes in English, History, Biology, and Mathematics, which were condensed into

six-week, intensive courses Students enrolled in one of the four courses, and at the end of the

coursework, took the appropriate AP exam I took the English course which turned out to

be the most valuable instruction in composition and literature I had during my entire high school career In fact, the admissions counselor [at the college] where I did my undergrad told

me that if I hadn't taken AP English, they would have been reluctant to let me in

I don't know how relevant my experience may be to your project,

but the extension of AP courses to rural kids is kind of

near and dear to my heart."

[Email correspondence to John Gugerty, AP Consortium Project Director, 12/3/02.

Quoted with permission.]

NUTS & BOLTS

PLAN OF ACTION I

Create, operate, and maintain a statewide advanced

placement distance learning clearinghouse for all

Wisconsin high schools

The AP Consortium staff will:

– Recruit AP teachers

– Arrange for their summer training at UW-Madison or

Lawrence University [Appleton]

– Help principals and counselors make a wide range of AP

distance learning courses available to their students

– coordinate fiscal transactions required to participate

NUTS & BOLTS

The AP Consortium will utilize each school’s existing distance learning (DS-3/fiber optic) teleconferencing facilities as the primary

instructional delivery platform.

PLAN OF ACTION II

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PILOT YEAR PROJECT OBJECTIVES

• Recruit as many as 25 AP Consortium high schools with two

AP Consortium teachers per school.

• Enroll as many as 500-700 AP students to participate in the

AP Consortium courses for the 2003-2004 school year

• Conduct an AP Consortium summer training course at UW-Madison and Lawrence University for AP teachers.

– AP Instructional Content: UW Division for Continuing Studies and Lawrence University

– AP Distance Education Approaches: UW Extension

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• problem-solving teaching strategies

• how to use a variety of contexts and

constructs

• how to monitor and direct the distance

learner

• how to best utilize distance learning

technology

• how to employ authentic assessment in a

distance learning environment.

During the 2003 AP Summer Training, AP

Consortium teachers will learn:

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INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY

Students will participate in their AP Consortium courses

in their respective schools in a “real time” environment.

AP Consortium teachers may supplement this “real time” instruction through use of web pages created and

supported by the AP Consortium staff Teachers can use these websites to post and receive assignments, provide on-line readings, or conduct other learning activities.

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AP Consortium Benefits: STUDENTS

Wisconsin’s rural and urban student populations will:

Get ahead by earning college credits before they leave high school

Save themselves thousands of dollars in college costs.

Enable them to expand and sharpen their existing

academic skills

Assist them in creating a more competitive admissions

package for the more select colleges

NUTS & BOLTS AP Consortium Benefits:

SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Rural and/or low income school districts can:

• Employ economies of scale as they pool their AP teacher talents with other school districts

throughout the state of Wisconsin;

• Begin to “level the playing field” of postsecondary preparation for their students;

• Provide incentives to strengthen curricula that

provide the foundation for these AP courses.

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• Increase their professional skills

• Increase their employment opportunities/security

• Enrich their professional lives

• Enhance their employability in other educational settings

AP Consortium Benefits:

TEACHERS

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The project will fund as many as fifty AP Consortium teacher summer training scholarships in Project Year 1 These

scholarships will pay for the AP teacher’s room, board, and

tuition incurred during a four day AP Consortium professional development course that will be offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Lawrence University, Appleton, beginning in June, 2003

AP Consortium Benefits:

TEACHERS II

NUTS & BOLTS

• Enhance campus diversity initiatives and results by developing and expanding a pool of students whose preparation will enhance their desire and ability to enroll in higher education.

• Provide an exemplar for PK-16 coordination.

AP Consortium Benefits:

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN CAMPUSES

NUTS & BOLTS

• Increase the systematic use of BadgerNET, the state-wide fiber-optic communication network

• Increase the skill levels of Wisconsin’s

future workforce

AP Consortium Benefits:

STATE OF WISCONSIN

Project web page:

http://www.cew.wisc.edu/ap_consortium/

AP Consortium web page:

http://www.apconsortium.wisc.edu/