Biology
Darrel James: Fred C. Boyer High School, Modesto, CA
Email: dbioman@sbcglobal.net
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Darrel grew up in Bend , Oregon and received his BS in Biology from Pacific University in Oregon and his MS in Marine Science from Oregon State . He has taught Biology for twenty-three years, and is presently teaching at Beyer high School in Modesto , CA. Darrel teaches gifted and talented as well as AP* Biology and is the Department chair. He also serves as the school’s AP* coordinator. Darrel has served as a reader, table leader, and assistant chief reader for the AP* Biology Exam. He has led numerous one-day AP* Biology curriculum and grading workshops for the College Board. Darrel has presented weeklong institutes for the past 13 summers. He has coached football, track, and girls’ basketball for Beyer High School . Darrel is also an avid cyclist and will talk bicycling with anyone. Darrel leads Marine trips to Hawaii for his AP* biology students. He loves to teach and show people how much fun Biology can be.
Calculus ABLarry Peterson: Northridge High School, Layton, UT
Email: larrypeterson@lgcy.com
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Larry Peterson earned his B.S. in Mathematics Education from Utah State University and his M. Ed. from Weber State University. He has taught AP* Calculus since 1976, currently teaching AP* Calculus and AP* Statistics at Northridge High School in Layton, Utah. Larry’s experience with Advanced Placement* ranges from Calculus to Computer Science to Statistics. He was a reader for the AP* Calculus exam for 13 years, serving as a Table Leader for six years. In 2003 and 2004 Larry was also a Question Leader. He is also a regular presenter at state, regional, national, and international conventions in mathematics and technology and has published materials for both AP* Calculus and AP* Statistics.
In addition to his work as a College Board consultant, Larry served a six year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. His awards include: Milken Educator, Tandy Scholar, Disney American Teacher Award winner, and Utah Teacher of the Year.
ChemistryBill Bond – Snohomish High School, Snohomish, WA
Email: William.Bond@sno.wednet.edu
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After graduating from the University of Washington in Seattle (1973), Bill Bond spent his first 5 years teaching Chemistry at Morwell Technical School in Australia (1973-1978). For the past 30 years, Bill has been a High School Chemistry teacher at Snohomish High School in Washington State where he served as science department chair. During the 1985-86 school year he was a Fulbright exchange teacher to London, England and in 1988, received his Masters Degree in Science Education from the University of Washington.
Bill has been responsible for writing questions for the Advanced Placement Chemistry Exam as a member of the Test Development Committee (1996-1999), and has been an exam “Reader” for 11 years. Bill has presented over 50 AP* Chemistry Workshops and Institutes throughout the U.S., Canada and overseas as a consultant for the College Board, and is the principal author of “A Teachers Guide to Advanced Placement Chemistry” (2000). Bill won the Siemens Advanced Placement Award (1999), was a Dreyfus Fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1990) and has had his Chemistry research published in “Analytical Chemistry” (1996). Bill has been a member of the Academic Council for the Western Region of the College Board (2001-2004), and served on the Development Committee for Advanced Placement Science Vertical Teams (2001-2004). Bill was selected and trained as a National Leader in AP* Chemistry for the College Board–responsible for the training and evaluation of new College Board presenters (2005-2006). Most recently, Bill has been trained as a presenter/consultant for Science Vertical Teams Institutes and Workshops. (2009)
Bill’s hobby is restoring his 1937 Studebaker car!
English Language & CompositionPat Bond: Snohomish High School., Snohomish, WA
Email: Patricia.Bond@sno.wednet.edu
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After graduating from Trinity Christian College in 1971, Pat Bond went to Australia with her husband, where she taught English and Humanities as well as adult education classes at Morwell Technical School in Morwell, Victoria, from 1973 until 1977. She left teaching upon the birth of her first child, and spent the next several years at home raising four children. In 1993 she completed the requirements for a paralegal degree, but decided to go back to teaching, her first love. In 1995, she went back to the classroom, substitute teaching for a year and then teaching English at Snohomish High School, where she has been ever since. She is currently the AP* Department chairperson at Snohomish High School.
While AP* English Literature had been part of the Snohomish High School curriculum for many years, no one had ever taught AP* English Language there. In 2000, Pat initiated and developed the first AP* English Language class at SHS; she has enjoyed teaching this class since then. In 2007 Pat was granted adjunct professor status at Everett Community College.
In 1998 Pat received a grant from the Grace Nixon Foundation to begin work on a Master’s Degree at the University of Idaho. She completed this in 2001 and was awarded a Master of Arts in Teaching Degree.
She has been a reader of AP* English Language exams since 2004.
English Literature and CompositionKris Tully: University High School, Tucson, AZ
Email: kristully@msn.com
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An English teacher for over thirty years, Kris Tully has taught Advanced Placement* English for nineteen years at University High School, a magnet school for gifted students in Tucson, Arizona. She scored the AP* English Literature and Composition Exam from 1995-2007, working as a Table Leader 2001-07. Since 1993, she has conducted College Board workshops in Pre-AP* English, AP* English Literature, English Vertical Teams and Building Success. Kris received her B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from Boston University and her M.Ed. in Foundations of Education from the University of Arizona. She has been named a Teacher of Excellence by the NCTE (2001) and a Distinguished Teacher by the U. S. Department of Education (1999 and 2001). Her teaching emphasizes critical reading and analytical writing skills that help high school students succeed at college-level work.
Environmental ScienceBen Smith: Palos Verdes Penninsula High School, CAS
Email: smithb@mail.pvpusd.k12.ca.us
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Ben is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the 2009-2010 academic year marks his twenty-third year of teaching environmental and biological science. He has taught in public schools for eighteen years, a private school for three years and for one year his classroom was Yosemite National Park, where he taught environmental science and natural history with Yosemite Institute. Ben has been involved in the Advanced Placement* Environmental Science program since 1996. In July of that year, he participated in the Environmental Science AP* “Train-the-Trainers” workshop held at Dartmouth College, where approximately twenty-five high school instructors from across the country gathered with a number of college faculty members to discuss and explore potential laboratory and field investigations, as well as other course content.
In September of 1996, Ben piloted the course at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills, California, with 128 students in four sections. Ben has been a College Board Environmental Science workshop presenter since 1998, leading approximately 40 single-day workshops and 26 week-long summer institutes across the United States, in locations such as Chicago, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Seattle, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Denver, Las Vegas, La Jolla, Tacoma, Durango, and Lake Tahoe, to name a few. In September 2005, he traveled to China to lead a two-day environmental science workshop for teachers preparing to teach the course in Shanghai, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. He has made numerous presentations at conferences organized by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the National Biology Teachers Association (NABT), and the California Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Ben served as an Environmental Science Resource Reviewer for the College Board’s AP* Central website and is the author of the AP* Central article entitled, “Teaching AP* Environmental Science to Large Classes”. He also authored a portion of the AP* Instructor’s Guide to accompany G. Tyler Miller’s environmental science text Living in the Environment, published by Thomson/Brooks-Cole in May of 2006. To date, he has taught 60 sections of AP* Environmental Science and approximately 1,700 students in this course. He co-chaired the Environmental Science AP* Redesign Commission and is currently a member of the Curriculum Design and Assessment Committee for this course.
Ben served as a Table Leader for the 1998, 1999, & 2008 Environmental Science Exam Readings and as a Question Leader for the 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 Readings. He served as one of the Alternate Exam readers for the 2004-2006 Readings. He served as a member of the AP* Environmental Science Development Committee from 1998-2002. In November of 2001, Ben received the Siemens Foundation Award for Advanced Placement* Teaching. In November 2005, he received the Educator of the Year honor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District.
Ben has participated in two Earthwatch Institute field research projects, gathering data in 1997 for the “Moose and Wolves of Isle Royale” study and in 2001 while on the “Snow Leopards of Nepal” project in the Annapurna region of the Himalayas. In the summer of 2003, he worked as a backcountry ranger with the National Park Service in Lassen Volcanic National Park and also worked as an interpretive ranger in Yellowstone National Park during the summer of 2009. During the 2004 summer, he lived on the Homathko Glacier for 28 days while participating in the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Waddington Range mountaineering course in British Columbia. In addition to backpacking, climbing, and cross country skiing, Ben enjoys trail running, cycling, and triathlons. He is a finisher of the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run and the Everest Challenge Cycling stage race in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountain Ranges in California.
In addition to teaching five sections of Environmental Science at Peninsula High School, Ben is currently enrolled in a graduate program at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and will complete his degree in environmental science, policy, and management in May of this year.
U.S. Government and PoliticsDaniel Devitt: Menlo School, Atherton, CA
Email: ddevitt@menloschool.org
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Daniel Devitt graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1988, receiving a degree in American History with a minor in Political Science. In 1994 he received his MA in Political Science from San Francisco State University. He taught high school in San Francisco for ten years, including seven at Lowell High School where he taught AP* Government. He currently teaches at Menlo School in Atherton California, where he has taught AP* Government for the past seven years. As a College Board* faculty consultant, Daniel has conducted numerous AP* teacher workshops and summer institutes, including a workshop at the AP* National Conference. He has been an AP* Government reader and table leader for the past eight years and served on the AP* Government Test Development Committee from 2000-2004.
U.S. HistoryGeorge Henry: Rowland Hall, St. Marks School, Salt Lake City, UT
Email: georgewhenryjr@comcast.net
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George Henry has taught AP* United States History in the public and private schools in Salt Lake City Utah since 1985. He is currently on the faculty at East High School, and an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of History at the University of Utah. George has been a consultant for the College Board in AP* U.S. History and served on numerous College Board Committees. He has been reading AP* U.S. history exams since 1991. He was a member of the Social Studies Vertical Teams Development committee, and has been a contributing writer of the Special Topics for Social Studies Vertical Teams. George recently completed the 2010 edition of the AP* Achiever Guide for Glencoe McGraw Hill. Currently, George is serving as a College Board National Trainer.
