AP Annual Conference 2025 Kicks Off in Boston

More than 2,000 educators are gathered in Boston, Mass., for the AP Annual Conference 2025. Each year the conference, College Board’s largest annual event, brings together education professionals from the Advanced Placement^® (AP^®) and Pre-AP^® communities. It provides them with an opportunity to network, attend content-driven sessions, and learn the most current information about the AP Program. Attendees perform a variety of roles in their schools and districts; they include new and experienced teachers of all 40 AP courses, AP chief readers, AP coordinators, counselors, superintendents, and principals.

On Thursday, July 17, Trevor Packer, Head of the AP Program, will take the main stage and share 2025 AP course and exam updates. Tom Moore, Chair of the College Board Trustees and Superintendent of Niles Township High Schools District 219 in Illinois, will deliver an inspiring message for educators looking for new ways to make an impact on their students. Sharing the stage with Moore will be his former student, Kelly Brouse, Assistant Director of Pupil Services for West Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut. 

The programming on Friday, July 18, will feature a panel of education experts, including Adrian Mims, Founder and CEO of The Calculus Project, Nathan Kuncel, Marvin D. Dunnette Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota, and Trevor Muir, Educator, Author, and Founder of Epic PBL, to discuss the importance of access, standardized testing, and project-based learning. Following the talk, College Board leaders will report on how the organization is advancing these initiatives. Other featured sessions will offer deep dives on course-specific topics and cover critical issues such as college access for rural students and generative AI in the classroom.

To read more highlights from the 2025 AP Annual Conference, visit College Board’s All Access blog.
 

About AP

The Advanced Placement Program^® (AP^®) enables willing and academically prepared students to pursue college-level studies—with the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both—while still in high school. Through AP courses in 40 subjects, each culminating in a challenging exam, students learn to think critically, construct solid arguments, and see many sides of an issue—skills that prepare them for college and beyond.