AP* Summer Institute

Ms. Dana Duenzen is a College Board* Endorsed Consultant and a National Leader for the College Board*.  She has been teaching in the public schools for the past thirty-eight years; nineteen years teaching AP* Economics and seventeen years teaching AP* U.S. History.  She has a B.S. degree in Social Science with a focus in history.  Her Master’s Degree is in American Studies; her thesis, “The Cultural Image of Femininity and Women In Sports” received national recognition.  As a consultant for The College Board, Ms. Duenzen has been a presenter at many week-end workshops as well as week-long institutes in the summer.  She has taught an AP* strategies course at the University of California, Riverside and has been a consultant to numerous school districts, and individual schools, specializing in Pre-AP* (Building Success and Vertical Teams).  She has been an AP* U.S. history reader, a Table Leader and is currently serving as Exam Leader.  In 1991 and 2003 Ms. Duenzen was named the Irvine Unified School District High School Teacher of the Year.  She is a founding member of the faculty at Woodbridge High School in Irvine, California, where she is currently teaching.