Date: January 7, 2005
Contact: Irene Cromer
703-791-8720

COUNTY ART TEACHER SERVES ON NATIONAL PANEL

Vicki Burns, art teacher and art department chair at Battlefield High School, has been accepted as an Advanced Placement (AP) reader for AP Studio Art by the National AP Boards at Princeton University. As an AP reader, Burns will evaluate AP art portfolios submitted from across the country. Burns was encouraged to apply for the opportunity while attending an AP Studio Art workshop in Norfolk, Virginia.

AP readers are required to be teachers with at least three years of teaching experience and with a high level of success in their student outcomes for AP scores. They also must provide evidence of their own recent art production and submit a syllabus for teaching in their AP subject area which the AP boards can use on the board’s Web site or in publications for AP instruction. Burns received a letter from the AP boards in October congratulating her on her acceptance as an AP reader for studio art.

Burns has been teaching art for 26 years, the past 14 of which have been with Prince William County. Prior to teaching at Battlefield, Burns taught AP studio art at Osbourn Park High School for the past 10 years where all but three of her students during that time received a “3” or higher on their AP scores. Burns received her B.A. in studio art from Virginia Tech and her M.I.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University with a focus in painting, printmaking, and digital photography.

For more information about AP programs, visit the Web site at www.apcentral.collegeboard.com.

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