Overview
AP Mentoring provides online, teacher-to-teacher support for AP teachers of all experience levels through two programs: AP Mentoring Full-Year, offering 10 mentoring sessions over the course of the school year, and AP Mentoring Spring Support, which offers four sessions in the months before the AP Exam administration.
Enhance your teaching skills and strengthen student performance by connecting with expert AP teachers who have years of instructional experience and deep content knowledge.
Are you a principal or school leader? Read about implementing AP Mentoring in your school or district.
How It Works
Mentees choose an available AP mentor in their subject and join that mentor's group of up to four mentees.

Online Meeting
Each group uses an online platform to schedule sessions and share documents, and meets online monthly through video chat.
Teachers enrolled in the Full-Year program complete 10 hour-long sessions over the course of the school year. Teachers enrolled in the Spring Support program complete four hour-long sessions during the spring semester.

Feedback Early and Often
Mentees are active participants. They work with mentors to set goals, analyze and modify their own teaching practice, and share feedback with their fellow mentees.

Reflection Assignment
In between sessions mentees complete a reflection assignment designed to help them apply what they’re learning in the classroom.
Why Enroll in AP Mentoring
Research shows that peer mentoring can be highly effective in supporting teacher's practice when it’s sustained over the course of the school year and provides opportunities for reflection and application.
AP Mentoring enhances your teaching skills by focusing on AP requirements that will improve student performance.
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Meaningful collaboration with other educators who teach the same AP subject.
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Personalized feedback that can be applied in the classroom right away.
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Full-year program only: 2.0 continuing education units (CEUs) for full participation (at least 9 out of 10 sessions plus completion of reflection assignments).
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Teacher-to-teacher support no matter where you live and work.
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Supplement skills you learned at an AP Summer Institute or an AP one-day workshop.
AP Mentoring Session Outlines
Take a look at the topics you’ll cover in your AP Mentoring sessions, month-by-month:
AP Computer Science Principles
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Full-Year Program—AP Computer Science Principles (.pdf/94 KB )
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Spring Support—AP Computer Science Principles (.pdf/29 KB )
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Includes best practices for lesson design, approaches to tailoring assignment to build particular skills, processes for the through-course assessments, and strategies for creating data visualizations, and more.
AP English Literature and Composition
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Full-Year Program—AP English Literature and Composition (.pdf/118 KB )
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Spring Support—AP English Literature and Composition (.pdf/29 KB)
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Includes fresh ideas for teaching skills and concepts, designing activities to build understanding, designing instruction to help students analyze literature, supporting student exam preparation, and more.
AP U.S. History
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Full-Year Program—AP U.S. History (.pdf/34 KB)
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Spring Support—AP U.S. History (.pdf/29 KB)
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Includes fresh ideas for teaching skills and concepts, fostering the development of deep understanding, maximizing rubrics and scoring guidelines to inform instruction, supporting student exam preparation, and more.
AP U.S. Government and Politics
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Full-Year Support—AP U.S. Government and Politics (.pdf/44 KB)
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Spring Support—U.S. Government and Politics (.pdf/29 KB)
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Includes practices to help focus your instruction, better connect the content and skills, and opportunities to scaffold to better tackle tough questions and prepare for the exam.
AP Computer Science A
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Full-Year Support—AP Computer Science A (.pdf/99 KB)
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AP Mentoring Curriculum Outline for Spring Support—AP Computer Science A (.pdf/30 KB)
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Provides instructional approaches, strategies, and activities to strengthen your teaching practices and prepare students with varying levels of experience and understanding.
Pricing
For AP Mentoring Full-Year, fees cover 10 sessions conducted over the course of the school year. Tiered pricing is available for districts, schools, and teachers. For AP Mentoring Spring Support, fees cover four sessions conducted between January and May.
Teachers interested in participating in our full-year program for the 2021-22 school year may be eligible for a fee-waiver scholarship. Please check back in the spring for more information on how to apply.
Package |
Yearly Cost |
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AP Mentoring Full-Year |
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Full price, per teacher |
$895 |
10% discount for College Board membership |
$806 |
10% discount for signing up 4 or more teachers from the same school or district |
$806 |
20% discount for College Board members that sign up 4 or more teachers from the same school or district |
$716 |
AP Mentoring Spring Support |
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Full price, per teacher |
$399 |
Check if you are a College Board member here.
How to Enroll
Registration is now open.
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AP Mentoring Full-Year |
AP Mentoring Spring Support |
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Registration opens |
Rolling |
Rolling |
Registration closes (All credit card purchases and order forms due by this date) |
September 15 |
December 31 |
Sessions begin |
August-October |
January |
Sessions end |
July |
May |
Pay by Purchase Order or Check
To use a purchase order or check to pay for AP Mentoring, please complete this order form.
Pay by Credit Card
To use a credit card to pay for AP Mentoring, sign up at the College Board Store. Please note that the College Board Store cannot process discounts.
Please read the AP Mentoring Terms and Conditions before purchasing.
AP Computer Science A
AP Computer Science Principles
AP English Literature & Composition
AP U.S. Government and Politics
AP U.S. History
Need more information before ordering? Email us at apmentoring@collegeboard.org
Please read the AP Mentoring Terms and Conditions before purchasing.