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Creating a Collaborative AP Statistics Community

• Mandi Kraemer
• Freedom High School
• Orlando, Florida
• Amanda.Kraemer_at_ocps.net

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My Context

• Low income school, lots of ELL students
• Began encouraging AP Stats 4 years ago
• AP Stats population grew from 28 to 210!
• Brought challenges and opportunities
• Collaboration!

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What We Do

• Plan lessons together
• Create common assessments
• Analyze data
• Conduct completely non-randomized experiments

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What if Im a loner?

• Orange County Public Schools District-Wide
  Advanced Placement Professional Learning
  Communities (OCPSDWAPPLCs)
• Initially met during pre-planning at AP Summit
• Meet 3x throughout school year (Saturdays)
• 4-5 hours at a time

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OCPSDWAPPLCs

• Share lessons
• Discuss issues
• Give and analyze common assessments
• How to grow program
• Practice Exam data
• Next year AP Exam data

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What if Im still a loner?

• Internet!
• Skype/Google hangouts
• Look around
• AP Teacher Communities (formerly Electronic
  Discussion Groups)

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Questions? Comments?

• Mandi Kraemer
• Amanda.Kraemer_at_ocps.net