Faculty of AP Summer Institute, Northwestern University School of Professional Studies - Northwestern School of Professional Studies

Bryan Ashkettle

Government and Politics - U.S.

Bryan Ashkettle is currently an AP® U.S. Government and Politics teacher at Solon High School near Cleveland, Ohio. This is his 27th year in the profession, with over 20 years’ experience teaching AP® Government. Bryan has been an AP® Reader for 16 years and was hired by the College Board® to be an AP® Consultant in 2015. He has taught various one-day workshops and AP® Summer Institutes throughout the United States.  

Bryan received his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Kent State University in 2014. He is also an adjunct professor and consultant in Teacher Education at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio. His research interest is self-study as a tool to better instructional practice. He lives Chagrin Falls, Ohio with his wife, Stefanie (also a teacher), and their two daughters — Frankie, 15 and Julia, 17.  

Susan Barber

English Literature and Composition

Susan Barber teaches AP English Literature, Multicultural Literature, and Writers Workshop 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. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Edutopia, and is 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. 

Angelika Becker

German Language and Culture

Angelika Becker teaches German level I, III, V, AP, and IB at Carmel High School in Indiana. She is a workshop presenter for AATG, a College Board consultant and an AP Reader. Her special interests include children and youth literature, using authentic materials at all levels, and differentiated instruction. In her free time, she likes to knit, listens to audio books, and takes care of her cats as well as the foster kitties she and her husband take in.  

Myrte Campbell

English Language and Composition

Myrte Campbell is an educator who currently works as a Field Supervisor with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her expertise includes transforming classrooms and developing teacher capacity. She teaches and coaches in response to school, and instructional needs. Myrte is committed to supporting and empowering both veteran teachers, new teachers, and pre-service teachers.  

In addition, Myrte uses the classroom as a learning lab for both students and teachers. Her goal is to change thinking in order to change practice, she provides experience-based strategies that are designed to show her colleagues that all students can learn if we design, deliver and facilitate a supportive learning environment. 

In her former role as an instructional coach, Myrte developed and designed professional development training for teachers, coaches and administrators; she lead monthly trainings, and developed and published academic documents for the Department of Curriculum & Instruction for her district. 

Myrte grew up on the island of Jamaica, but she received her B.A. at Marquette University, and an MA at Georgia State University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Language & Literacy at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee.  

Myrte has over twenty years of experience in education, and has taught AP courses for approximately twelve of those years, in addition to teaching AP Language, she has taught AP Literature and AP U.S. History. She scores the AP English Language exam as a table leader. In addition, Myrte has been a College Board consultant for approximately five years, presenting for both the College Board One Day Workshops, Pre-AP English Workshops and Summer Institutes.  

Christine Custred

United States History and World History: Modern

Christine Bond-Custred currently teaches Advanced Placement (AP)® United States History and AP® World History at Edmond Memorial High School in Edmond, OK. She has taught AP® U.S. History since 1998 and AP® World History since 2007 and has developed and team-taught a combination course that bridged AP® U.S. History and AP® English Language. Ms. Custred has been a College Board® consultant since 2000, presenting at numerous domestic and international College Board® institutes and conferences including the Southwest Regional College Board® conference and the AP® annual conference in Orlando in July 2019.  

Ms. Custred became an AP® Summer Institute consultant in 2003 and has presented at well over 50 summer institutes since that time. She has previously served as a reader for the AP® World History exam,and is currently a table leader at the AP® U.S. History reading and serving her third and final year as a member of the consultant advisory panel for the College Board®. In addition, Ms. Custred served as an AP® mentor from 2015-2017 in a mentoring program designed and offered by the College Board®, during which she conducted monthly webinars with new AP® U.S. History teachers.  

Ms. Custred's publishing credits include the Research and Education Association (REA) test prep book for AP® United States History (co-author), Fast Track to a 5 for AP® World History (co-author), writing the AP® review questions for the AP® edition of the Making America textbook, and the teacher's edition of the Ways of the World textbook (contributing author). She holds a Master's degree in Education Administration and School Counseling (M.Ed.) and is a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT). 

Nick Fernandez

Psychology

Nick Fernandez teaches AP Psychology at Livingston High School in Livingston, NJ. He has been teaching in northern New Jersey for the past 18 years, the past 14 of which have been exclusively AP Psychology. Early in his teaching career, he worked closely with the Bergenfield School District in creating an open-enrollment AP Psychology course from the ground up. This course was met with great excitement and enthusiasm; each year his schedule consisted of five sections with 30 students in each. For the past five years, Nick has continued to exclusively teach AP Psychology at Livingston High School. 

Nick has served as a Reader for the AP Psychology exam since 2014 and as a Table Leader since 2017. Early in 2020, he was hired by the College Board to serve as a consultant for their AP Summer Institutes (APSI) as well as their one-day regional workshops. Additionally, he was a member of the online faculty for the Virtual High School (VHS Learning) out of Maynard, MA. Nick was with VHS Learning from 2014-2022 teaching AP Psychology during the school year and Criminology during the summer months.  

Nick earned his BAs in Criminal Justice, History and Secondary Education at Caldwell University and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction, also from Caldwell University. When he is not immersed in the world of AP Psychology, Nick enjoys spending time with his family, coaching softball and baseball, and traveling. 

Theresa Horvath

Calculus

Theresa Horvath has been teaching AP Calculus in McKinney, Texas since 2009. She is passionate about reaching all students through her love of mathematics and implementation of varied, discovery-based, engaging strategies. She has been an AP Calculus Reader since 2014. She was a member of the College Board Instructional Design Team for AP Calculus to prepare the online resources and 2019-20 Course and Exam Description. She is one of the AP Daily Video instructors for AP Calculus BC. Theresa is an approved College Board AP Calculus consultant and a NMSI Calculus and Computer Science consultant. She enjoys time with family, playing card/board games, exercise, and hiking in our beautiful national parks. 

Lloyd Hoshaw

English Language and Composition

Lloyd Hoshaw has taught language arts and composition in public high schools for over 20 years, but his study of rhetoric began at age 10 when he began honing his skills of language selection through the careful creation of mixtapes designed to attend to an audience. More recently, Lloyd has deftly deployed these skills in crafted playlists designed to mold his three children’s taste in music. 
 
Today, Lloyd teaches at Millard West High School in Omaha, Nebraska, where he established the AP® English Language & Composition course over a decade ago. In 2013 he created a co-taught interdisciplinary AP® Language and AP® United States History course, and in 2015 he and Matthew Heys (AP® U.S. History) co-authored A Guide to Team Teaching AP® English Language and Composition and AP® United States History (Bedford/St. Martin’s), a teachers' guide to use with the textbooks Conversations in American Literature and America’s History. 
 
Lloyd has served as a reader for the AP® English Language and Composition exam since 2013, and has been a co-presenter on topics related to partnering AP® English Language with interdisciplinary work at NCTE (‘14, ‘16), NCSS (‘15, ‘17), and the AP® National Conference (‘16). In addition to teaching AP® Language and Composition, Lloyd acts as the English Department Head and teaches Literature & Film, as well as teaching two courses in the Millard Education Academy focused on developing future educators. 

Andy Kuemmel

Computer Science Principles

Andy Kuemmel has been an integral part of the AP® Computer Science Principles program since its inception. In addition to being a member of the first AP® Computer Science Principles Test Development Committee, Andy taught AP® CS Principles as a Pilot Instructor and teacher at West High School in Madison, WI, and subsequently created the Madison Metropolitan School District's district-wide CSP curriculum. He has authored several College Board® documents, including a CS Principles Course Planning and Pacing Guide and a set of official Practice Exam Solution explanations. Andy has served as a reader and table leader for the CS Principles reading, authored the official solutions to a College Board® Practice Exam, and is a contributing CS Principles question writer for ETS. Andy has also worked as the College Board® CS Principles Teacher Community Moderator and a College Board® Online Mentor. Andy led several training sessions for CS Principles Pilot Instructors and Consultants, has presented at summer institutes across the country, and has presented workshops at CSTA, SIGCSE, and the AP® Annual Conference. 
 
In addition to teaching math and computer science at West High School, Andy is also a Faculty Associate in the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2013, Andy was on the leadership team of a consortium that included Marquette University, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, and the Wisconsin-Dairyland Chapter of the Computer Science Teacher Association, that was awarded a three-year, $1 million National Science Foundation grant aimed at doubling the number of computer science teachers in Wisconsin high schools. 

Éliane Kurbegov

French Language and Culture

Éliane Kurbegov has taught French at secondary and higher education levels for the past 30 years and is Éliane Kurbegov has taught French at secondary and higher education levels for the past 30 years and is the author of numerous French language learning titles; she is currently an adjunct professor of French at Miami Dade College. Over the course of many years, Éliane has served the College Board® in multiple capacities, participating in AP® readings as a table leader and a question leader, serving on the AP® French Language test development committee, and training and mentoring College Board® consultants. She currently conducts College Board® workshops and monitors the AP® French Language and Culture Community website. 

Éliane co-authored the Barron's Guide to the AP® French Language and Culture Exam and the textbook Thèmes, published by VHL, in addition to having written many French manuals for McGraw-Hill. She is a native speaker of French and has twice been awarded the Palmes Académiques for her promotion of the French culture and language. Most importantly, Éliane has a true passion for the teaching of French and for sharing her lifelong experiences with her esteemed colleagues. 

Michael Little Crow

Pre-calculus

Michael Little Crow is an Indigenous Math Educator from the Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe-Cree people.  With his co-founder Uraiwan Pinthong, OPEN Global Village, Original Peoples Education Network, Inc. was created to support two education abroad projects to Thailand and one sabbatical teaching mathematics through robotics in Kazakhstan.  He works with the education agencies of several tribal nations including the Pascua Yaqui, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Gila River Indian Community, and several of the Chippewa nations in North Dakota and Wisconsin to provide professional development in mathematics.  

Little Crow was an instructor at Oregon State university from 1988 - 2004, residential faculty at Scottsdale Community College from 2004 - 2018, and currently is a lecturer at Arizona State University as well as an adjunct at SCC.  He is in the Mary Lou Fulton School of Education working on an EdD in Educational Leadership and Innovation. 

Mary Lopez

United States History

Mary Lopez has taught U.S. History and American Studies at all levels at Schaumburg High School since 1995. In that time, she has structured the U.S. History curriculum for all levels taught in her district.  

Mary has served as a Reader at the AP® Reading for 17 years, and has been a Question Leader or Exam Leader for the last seven years, including the online Readings in 2020 and 2021. In addition, Mary served as a member of the U.S. History Development Committee for the College Board from 2015-2019, helping to guide the direction of the course and constructing the AP® Exam. She has presented in multiple states through the College Board, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Council of History Education. 

Mary has earned two B.A.s from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in History from DePaul University, and is A.B.D. status in the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her areas of academic specialty are American Women’s History and U.S. History since 1763. She has four children, one of whom will take AP® U.S. History this year and thinks that his mother doesn’t know very much, and a lovable but not-too-bright dog. 

Greg Sherwin

Human Geography

Greg Sherwin has taught AP® Human Geography since its inception in 2000-2001. In addition to teaching at Stevenson High School in Chicago’s northern suburbs, he is active in the AP® Human Geography community and currently mentors new human geography teachers for the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio. Mr. Sherwin served on the AP® Human Geography Test Development Committee from 2002-2006 and has served in a variety of leadership capacities at the annual AP® Human Geography reading. 
 
Mr. Sherwin recently co-authored Human Geography for the AP® Course with Erin Fouberg, Alec Murphy and Paul Gray (March 2020). Previously, he teamed up with the same writers for the 10th and 11th editions of Advanced Placement® Study Guide for Human Geography: People, Place and Culture. Additionally, Mr. Sherwin has teamed up other expert AP® Human Geography teachers to create an app (iScore5) to prepare students for the AP® Human Geography Exam. In 2015 he received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the National Council for Geography Education (NCGE). His cultural landscape field study assignment was recognized by the College Board® and is available on the AP Central® Website. 

Benjamin Walters

Psychology

Benjamin Walters has taught AP Psychology for 14 years outside of Charlotte, NC.  In his first year teaching AP Psychology, he had 28 students take the AP exam. Currently, he has 175-200 students take the AP Psychology exam each year. He has had the opportunity to score AP Psychology FRQs for 7 years. He created a stand-alone AP Psychology online course for his district that has grown and has been very successful. Since 2017 he has worked with the National Math and Science Initiative as an AP Psychology consultant, mentor, and curriculum writer. Ben has worked as a College Board consultant since 2020. Ben has a passion to work with students and teachers to not only increase students’ AP exam scores but create a rich enjoyment of Psychology!  

Nichole Wilson

English Literature and Composition

Nichole Wilson teaches Advanced Placement® English Literature and English 4 at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio, where she is also the Senior English Team Leader. She is an AP® English Literature Exam Reader, Mentor, and Consultant. She has spoken about best practices at a number of conferences, including the Advanced Placement® Annual Conference (2017, 2018, 2019), the College Board® National Forum (2013, 2015, 2017), the College Board® Midwest Regional Forum (2013), and the ISTE National Conference (2013). 

Through the J. William Fulbright program, Ms. Wilson taught Literature, Language, and Media Studies at East Norfolk Sixth Form College in England. She has also worked as a journalist for a daily newspaper, and as a Public Relations Director and adjunct instructor at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Nichole has an M.A. in Education and an M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction. 

Jorge Zamora

Spanish Language and Culture

Jorge embarked on his teaching journey in 2002 at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, IL, a suburb of Chicago, where he has dedicated his career. His expertise spans across various levels of Spanish education, from introductory to AP courses. For the past 16 years, Jorge has been instrumental in instructing AP Language and Culture, concurrently participating as an AP Reader since 2016. His roles as a Reader, Table Leader, and more recently as a Question Leader have contributed significantly to the selection of benchmarks, sample assessments, and leadership tasks during the Reading. 

Extending his influence beyond the classroom, Jorge is an accomplished presenter at local, national, and international forums, focusing on the pedagogy of AP Spanish and leveraging technology within World Language instruction. His contributions to Spanish textbooks and related publications reflect his commitment to educational advancement. Jorge earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Northern Illinois University and furthered his academic pursuits with a master's degree in educational technology from Concordia University in Chicago. 

Outside the academic sphere, Jorge devotes his time as a soccer coach for both boys’ and girls’ teams, having also coached volleyball and track and field. He finds solace in reading books in both Spanish and English, staying active through workouts, indulging in video games, and cherishing moments with his family.