Chad Smith
AP World History
Chad Smith is the AP World History teacher at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas. As a MacArthur teacher, he has taught on-level, honors, Pre-AP, and AP classes in both US and World History. He also coaches several academic teams, including Academic Decathlon and UIL Current Events. Chad is also an official reader, grader of the free response portion of the AP test, for the College Board and has presented at the AP National Conference. When the Coronavirus forced schools to shutdown in March 2020, Chad worked with the College Board to produce daily videos for students and teachers in a series called "AP Live" and you can find Chad in your AP Classroom by watching the AP Daily Videos for Units 4 and 5.
Christine Custred
AP US History
Christine Custred has taught AP United States History since 1998, AP World History since 2006 and Pre-AP World History from 1998-2006. She holds a Master’s degree in Education Administration and in school counseling (M.Ed.) and is a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT). Ms. Custred has been a College Board consultant since 2000, presenting at numerous College Board institutes including international institutes. She has been an AP Summer Institute consultant since 2003, presenting at well over 50 summer institutes. She co-authored the Research and Education Association (REA) test prep book for AP United States History, she wrote the AP review questions for the AP edition of the Making America textbook, she co-authored the Fast Track to a 5 for AP World History and was a contributing author of the teacher’s edition of the Ways of the World textbook. She has developed and team taught a combination course that bridges AP U. S. History and AP English Language and has co-presented at a Southwest Regional College Board conference. She served as an AP mentor from 2015-2017, this mentoring program, designed and offered by the College Board, entailed conducting once a month webinars with new AP United States history teachers. She has served as a reader for the AP World History exam and the AP United States history exam.
Rachel Stokes
AP English Literature & Composition
Rachel Stokes has been an AP Literature and Composition Instructor since 1996 and currently teaches at Greenville Senior High Academy in Greenville, SC. This is her 30th year of teaching. She has been an AP Reader for the AP Literature and Composition Exam since 2008 and is currently teaching AP Literature and Composition. Rachel began her teaching career at Blue Ridge High School in Greer, SC., and was also a Lecturer in English at Furman University for seven years, where she taught Composition and Rhetoric and Introduction to Literature. She also taught part-time for six years in an exclusively online charter school.
In addition to being a College Board Consultant, she is endorsed in Gifted and Talented Education, is an Edmodo Certified Trainer, a Level I Google Certified Trainer, and has presented a variety of sessions on incorporating technology and internet learning platforms at national conferences, including the AP Annual Conference, the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, the Quality Matters Annual Convention, FETC, and CUE. She has also published in scholarly journals and online. In addition to providing professional development at the school, district, and state levels, she was also a featured speaker for the EdmodoCon 2014 live webcast for over 40,000 viewers worldwide.
Jill Taylor
AP Pre-Calculus
Jill Taylor holds a degree in Mathematics from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, and an MEd in Mathematics Education from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Mathematics Education at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Over her 22-year teaching career, Jill has taught mathematics at the middle school, high school, and college levels across Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.
From 2018 to 2023, she served as the Math Department Chair and AP Lead Teacher at Broken Arrow High School, where she led initiatives to enhance and build the school’s AP program. Now an assistant professor of mathematics at Tulsa Community College, Jill also teaches AP Precalculus and AP Calculus online for Horizon Digital Campus.
Jill has been actively involved with the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics, serving on the Board of Directors as the District 4 representative. As a College Board workshop consultant for AP Calculus and AP Precalculus, she is also a member of the College Board National Faculty for the Pre-AP program. Since 2019, she has been an AP reader, an experience she values for the deep insights it brings to her AP teaching practices.
In addition to her professional work, Jill is a frequent presenter at conferences, summer institutes, and workshops at the local and state levels. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, watching sports, and spending time with her husband, children, and amazing grandson.
James "Ed" Howell
AP Calculus AB
James Howell is currently employed by the Dallas Public School district as an AP Honors Mathematics teacher at Trini Garza Early College High School. He has received the Dallas Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award twice in past years. Mr. Howell has been a College Board consultant for the past 16+ years and an AP Reader for both the AB and BC Calculus exams for the past 13 years.
Chris Manor
AP Chemistry
Chris Manor has taught Chemistry in Thompson’s Station, TN (30 miles south of
Nashville) since 2011 and has been teaching AP® Chemistry for over 20 years. He has
a B.S. in Chemistry and an M.A. in Secondary Education from Ball State University. In
addition to AP Chemistry, he also teaches Honors Chemistry and Honors Organic
Chemistry. Chris has been an AP® Chemistry Exam reader since 2020, contributed to AP® Daily
Videos as a member of the AP® Chemistry team, and served as an AP® Chemistry
consultant for the College Board since 2022. He has led APSI’s in Alabama, Mississippi,
and Online. Teaching Chemistry is Chris’s passion. He looks forward to engaging his students with Chemistry and
inspiring future STEM majors. Students leave Chris’s AP® Chemistry class prepared to be successful on the
AP® Chemistry Exam and ready to take on the challenge of other Math and Science courses at the college
level.
Christopher Saikin
AP Biology
