School Improvement: Building a Culture of Success through AP

John Moscatiello is the founder of Marco Learning. He has been a teacher, tutor, and author since 2002. Over the course of his career, John has taught more than 4,000 students, trained hundreds of teachers, written content for 13 test preparation books, and worked as an educational consultant in more than 20 countries around the world.

Andrew Sharos is an author, consultant, and keynote speaker who still works in a high school. For more thoughts on instructional methods in AP® and the award-winning turnaround story that made history in Andrew’s class, check out his book, “All 4s and 5s: A Guide to Teaching and Leading AP Programs.”

Carolina Buitrago leads Mass Insight’s work on networked school improvement initiatives supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, Carolina leads school teams from six high schools in the New England region to increasing AP participation and success for historically marginalized students through the systematic testing of strategies and Improvement Science methods. She has led the development and dissemination of the AP Equity building tools, a practical toolkit for supporting equity in AP at the classroom, school and district levels. Carolina has over 25 years of experience in education, which combine mixed-methods research on school improvement and teacher effectiveness, data analytics and innovation in survey design, program evaluation of school-based and national initiatives, policy development and implementation, and middle school counseling.