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Pat Sherbert is a career teacher who and their classrooms, including the Mosaic Slow-
taught AP® English Literature and AP® Conference project and the Garden of English.
English Language, as well as coordinated the
district Advanced Placement Program that Michael Atwood is a graduate of the University
she initiated in Broken Arrow Schools and of Southern California’s master of professional
continued in Tulsa Public Schools. She is a writing program and Boston College. He
t/k former member of the Southwest Regional t/k currently teaches AP® English Literature and AP®
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Advanced Placement Advisory Council and the College Board English Language at New Bedford High School
Academic Council. She consults for the College Board for but has taught just about every level of English language arts over
Advanced Placement Institutes and works as a consultant-reader for his 24-year career in education. In 2010, Aqueous Books published
Educational Testing Services. For six years, she was a member of the Atwood’s first short story collection, HiStory of Santa Monica: Stories.
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Leadership Team for the AP® English Language and Composition In 2016, he published HiStory of Santa Monica II: More Stories.
Exam as the assistant chief reader and as the alternate exam Both collections featured various disillusioned characters, struggling
question leader. Pat currently is a reviewer for the course audits for to survive in Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Los Angeles. In 2021,
AP® English Literature and Composition. Currently, Pat teaches Atwood published his third short story collection entitled Delirium
at Lindenwood University for Introduction to Literature and Fades, a blend of international suspense and detective fiction. He has
Composition I and II. written for a number of publications, including The Boston Globe,
Patriot Ledger, North Attleborough Free Press, and Attleboro Sun
Brandon Abdon, D.A. is a former English Chronicle. He is currently working on his first novel and adaptations
teacher who has been doing instructional design, from his fiction into screenplays.
school coaching, and professional development
around the intersection of composition, Jacquelyn Stallworth is a passionate high
literacy, literature, pedagogy, and technology school literature teacher; diversity, equity, and
t/k for over a decade. Currently, he serves as a inclusion coordinator; and an endorsed AP®
curriculum, instruction, and assessment consultant and teacher English Literature and Composition consultant
coach. A fellow of the National Writing Project, Brandon believes for The College Board. She is also the founder
in the power of writing daily in the classroom. He also knows that of Stallworth Educational Consulting Team,
all students have a path to literacy when engaged and challenged t/k a company committed to schools’ curricula
suitably. He has trained hundreds of teachers and worked directly reflecting the diverse world in which we live. She is the writer of
with thousands of students across the country and the world. He the literary blog called “The Big Sea.” In her free time, she loves
has consulted for or served in some capacity with the National reading, talking about books, and cycling.
Council of Teachers of English, the National Writing Project, the
Bluegrass Writing Project, the Kentucky Council of Teachers of
English, the National Math-Science Initiative, Applied Practice, and
others. In addition to consulting and professional development,
he was formerly a director of curriculum, instruction, and
assessment with the College Board’s Advanced Placement English
Program. While at the College Board, he led the development of
the current course and exam descriptions for both AP® English
courses, including the creation of course skills, revision of exam
guidelines, and the development of analytical scoring. Along with
experience with an array of organizations, he holds advanced
degrees in both English and education — including a doctorate in
English — and certification as a teacher, reading/literacy specialist,
and administrator. His academic work revolved around the
rhetoric of fiction — specifically the fiction of Richard Wright in
its context — and literacy and reading instruction in the secondary
grades. During his full-time work in high school classrooms, he
was recognized with the National Council of Teachers of English
“High School Teacher of Excellence” award in 2010. He has
taught at the University of Kentucky and Georgia State University,
teaching courses that include English Composition 1, Introduction
to Literature, Literature for Teachers, Composition for Teachers,
and others. He is the senior author of two textbooks for AP®
English Literature (2021) and AP® English Language (2020) and a
collaborator on a number of projects to support English teachers

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