Advanced Academics

Mass Insight offers three Saturday Study Sessions per content area throughout the school year to students participating in the AP STEM & English program. At these sessions, they can receive extra content coaching and help from both their teacher as well as content area experts. The final of the three sessions is a mock AP exam.

Mass Insight facilitates one mock exam session each school year per AP math, science, and English content area. The mock exam session offers students the opportunity to take a mock AP exam, in an actual AP test environment, using AP exam-like questions and occasionally questions directly from the most recently released College Board AP exam. Mass Insight then facilitates the grading and reading of each mock exam and returns a score analysis back to the student and teacher, as well as provides (in some cases) deconstruction lessons, best practices, and summary reports.

Mass Insight requires schools to adopt open access standards and policies for all AP math, science, and English courses. To support schools and teachers in fully realizing the advantages of the open access concept, Mass Insight utilizes a set of questions, interviews, and policy reviews to evaluate schools and help make adjustments.

Mass Insight subject matter expert consultants provide knowledge and guidance on current and appropriate AP-level textbooks, equipment, and other AP-level resources. Additionally, Mass Insight facilitates the sharing of resources among the hundreds of teachers within the program's network. We provide funding for materials and equipment and offer a lending library of science equipment to our partner schools.

The AP Summer Institutes are five-day, College Board endorsed teacher trainings open to all teachers inside and outside of the Mass Insight AP STEM & English Program. The Institutes are subject-specific professional development opportunities led by College Board accredited instructors, providing teachers with the support and training needed to teach a variety of AP courses and to utilize strategies to teach students the fundamentals of AP to get them ready for the AP classroom. Holding Summer Institutes since 2008, Mass Insight has now provided training, Graduate Credits and Professional Development Points to over 10,000 teachers, and is one of the largest Summer Institutes in the region. Learn more here.

The goal of the annual Partners In Excellence (PIE) event is to honor AP teachers from across Massachusetts for their exceptional dedication to helping more students take and thrive in challenging AP classes.

Mass Insight subject matter expert consultants provide coaching and mentoring to schools and teachers on current and appropriate AP strategies key to student and class success.

The Two-Day Workshop is a concentrated and comprehensive professional development training for AP math, science, English teachers. Over the course of the two days, participants share best practices, engage in roundtable discussions, and learn focused and targeted strategies instrumental to successfully running their AP course.

Mass Insight is interested in staying in touch to follow the college and career paths of our AP STEM & English Program alumni. As we track down and connect with our nearly 60,000 alum, we expect this network will become a great community of support and resources. Please join us on our social media platforms: Facebook & LinkedIn. We hope to see you there!