AP Institutes

Summer Institute

Advanced Placement® (AP®) Summer Institutes provide the most intensive professional development available for AP® educators. Summer institute attendees engage in thirty or more hours of content-rich training designed to strengthen how they teach their AP® courses. Any recent changes to AP® will be addressed at the AP® Summer Institutes. College Board endorsed consultants will guide attendees through resources such as course outlines; content-specific handouts; and student samples, scoring guidelines, and commentary from the most recent AP® exams.

2026 West Virginia Advanced Placement Summer Institutes

Week One

Location: University High School, Morgantown, WV 
Dates: Tuesday, July 21 - Friday, July 24, 2026

Sessions

• Art & Design
• Biology
• Business with Personal Finance
• Calculus AB
• Chemistry for New AP Teachers
• Chemistry for Experienced AP Teachers
• English Language for New AP Teachers
• English Language for Experienced AP Teachers 
• English Literature for New AP Teachers 
• English Literature for Experienced AP Teachers
• Environmental Science
• Human Geography
• Precalculus
• Psychology
• Seminar: English 10
• Spanish Language and Culture
• Statistics
• U.S. Government & Politics
• U.S. History for New AP Teachers 
• U.S. History for Experienced AP Teachers 
• World History: Modern

Week One Registration

Business with Personal Finance Registration 

Week Two

Location: Online
Dates: Tuesday, July 28 - Friday, July 31, 2026

Sessions

• Art & Design
• Calculus AB
• Calculus BC
• English Language
• English Literature
• European History
• Music Theory
• Physics I
• Psychology
• Statistics
• U.S. Government & Politics
• U.S. History

Week Two Registration

AP Computer Science Sessions

AP Computer Science Principles, AP CSP Recertification and AP Computer Science A will be provided through CodeWV. For workshop information, applications and registration, please visit CodeWV Workshops. AP CSP and AP CSA require an application before registering; the recertifications do not.

New and Experienced Sessions

Teachers who have taught the AP course for three or fewer years must attend the specified session for new AP teachers. Teachers who have taught the course for four or more years should attend the session for experienced AP teachers. Experienced AP teachers may attend the sessions for new teachers if a basic course refresher is needed. However, new AP teachers may not attend the experienced sessions.

Sessions not specified new or experienced are open to both new and experienced AP teachers of that course.

2026 Summer Institute Registration Fees

• WV teachers: $50
• Out-of-state teachers: $850

Lodging

WV teachers living at least 50 miles from the institute location qualify for lodging under the WVDE direct-billed room block.

AP Courses Not Listed on the 2026 Schedule

WV teachers who must attend courses not listed on the schedule may be eligible to attend an APSI session in another location. Contact Karen Linville for more information.

AP Computer Science Principles and AP Computer Science A will be provided through CodeWV. Registration details will be available on this page at a later date.