AP Seminar ELA – Terri Pruitt

This session AP Seminar – with Terri Pruitt is offered IN PERSON during Week 2: June 22-25, 2026 at Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia.

Meet your APSI Consultant for AP Seminar ELA

Terri T. Pruitt is a dedicated educator, instructional coach, and national AP consultant with nearly three decades of experience in secondary English instruction, curriculum development, and teacher leadership. She currently serves as the High School Literacy Coach for AP Capstone and AP Alignment in the Red Clay Consolidated School District in Delaware, where she supports teachers and students across multiple schools and works to expand equitable access to rigorous coursework.

A College Board AP Seminar Consultant and AP Reader/Table Leader, Terri trains and mentors teachers across the country and serves on College Board’s National AP Seminar English 10 Teaching & Learning Team for which she conducts “Chat with a Content Expert for AP Seminar English 10” and delivers Pre-Implementation Workshops for new districts launching AP Seminar as a 10th-grade English course. For College Board, She has also served on the AP Seminar Generative AI and the Pre-AP English & AP Seminar Vertical Alignment Team.  

Terri’s national impact includes her role with A+ College Ready in Alabama (2023–2025), where she supports teachers implementing AP Seminar statewide, and her repeated presentations at the College Board’s AP Annual Conference—most recently in 2023, 2024, and 2025—highlighting strategies for access, instructional differentiation, digital exam readiness, and teacher collaboration.

Since 2015, she has taught AP Seminar and, since 2020, AP Research, helping students develop inquiry, research, and communication skills foundational to the Capstone program. Her teaching portfolio also includes AP Language and AP Literature, where she fosters advanced literacy, rhetorical reasoning, and close reading skills. In 2024, she completed IB DP Category 1 training in English A: Literature through FLIBS, further expanding her interdisciplinary reach.

Whether working one-on-one with students, leading district initiatives, or presenting to national audiences, Terri brings passion, precision, and a deep commitment to empowering learners and educators alike. She believes that access to challenging coursework should not be a privilege, but a promise.

APSI Session Description

The AP Capstone Summer Institutes train instructors to teach college-level critical thinking and research skills while exploring academic and real-world questions, problems, and issues from different disciplines and from multiple perspectives. Special focus is given to facilitating student learning in collaborative settings while motivating students to think critically and innovatively about research questions.

The summer institute will cover:

Course goals, objectives, content, and resources

• Curriculum framework of the program

• Teaching strategies and best practices

• Creation of course calendar, class activities, lesson plans, and formative assessments

• Development of course syllabi for the AP Course Audit

• Through-course and end-of-course assessments

• Demonstration of AP Digital Portfolio

2026 WaltonAPSI / AP Seminar ELA / Terri Pruitt