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ixBill PolaskyStillman Valley High School %u2013 Stillman Valley, ILAP%u00ae Skills WorkshopsBill has taught history for thirty years at Stillman Valley High School in Stillman Valley, IL, where he is Division Chair for Social Sciences. A coauthor of the 2020 Emergency Pandemic Teaching and Learning Standards for Social Sciences for the State of Illinois, he is a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) Certified Master Teacher, as well as a 2019 Illinois Teacher of the Year finalist. He also served for over a decade as an adjunct faculty member at Rock Valley Community College in Rockford, IL, where he taught a U.S. history survey course. Bill holds two BA degrees and two MA degrees from Northern Illinois University, in Political Science and History, and History and Educational Administration, respectively. Bill is active within the College Board community; besides serving as an Educational Testing Service Exam Item Writer of DBQ, Short-Answer, and MultipleChoice Questions for the National Exam, Bill has participated in the National AP%u00ae U.S. History Exam Reading since 2000, serving as a reader, table leader, or early arriving table leader (formerly called exam leader), and is currently chair of the AP%u00ae U.S. History Reading Best Practices Committee. As a National Consultant to the College Board for nearly twentyfive years, he has led numerous training sessions and AP%u00ae U.S. History Summer Institutes, providing professional development and APUSH training for hundreds of teachers across the country. He is an online presenting faculty instructor of AP%u00ae U.S. History for both the College Board%u2019s AP%u00ae Classroom and AP%u00ae Live Review platforms, as well as the Princeton Review%u2019s GETAFIVE Online AP%u00ae Learning Platform. He is a contributing author on numerous AP%u00ae U.S. History textbook ancillary and support materials, including the AP%u00ae U.S. History Survival Guide (2014), the Teacher%u2019s Resource Materials for Documenting United States History: Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP%u00ae Course (2015), and the Iscore5 AP%u00ae U.S. History Review Application (2018%u2013present).Kyle VanderWallGrandville High School %u2013 Grandville, MIAP%u00ae Exam PracticeKyle (PhD candidate, Western Michigan University) has taught history for twenty-two years at Grandville High School in Grandville, MI. For twenty of those years, he has taught AP%u00ae U.S. History. During that span the program has grown significantly. The AP%u00ae U.S. History course at Grandville is designed for sophomores and has no prerequisites for admission. During the last ten years, Kyle has led numerous workshops and summer institutes around the country to help improve historical pedagogy. His instructional design and work focus on increasing students%u2019 self-efficacy in historical inquiry. Kyle has more than a decade of experience in the AP%u00ae Reading as both a Reader and Table Leader scoring Short-Answer, Long Essay, and DocumentBased Questions.Ashley Vanderwall%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.