Faculty
Timothy Cullen
Tim Cullen has been working with high school students for thirty-eight years. Department supervisor for Social Studies at Leonia High School in New Jersey, his classroom duties include Advanced Placement courses in both Social Studies and Economics.
Tim has been a reader for the AP examination since 1995. He also teaches professional development seminars for the College Board and mentors new teachers in his district.
Active in curriculum development, Tim has helped pilot programs in a variety of fields including: history, economics, sociology, tolerance, and student government. He is presently developing a new curriculum in A.P. Microeconomics.
A James Madison Scholar, and a former Associate Program Director for the Stratford Hall Seminar on Slavery, Tim was named a Princeton University Distinguished Secondary Teacher in 2006. He was also honored by The College of New Jersey as one of their 2008 Outstanding Educators.
Married to the former Claire Jacoby, the couple as three grown children and a pair of grandsons, Kevin and Luke.
Alan Feldman
Alan Feldman is a high school teacher of AP psychology, AP history and mathematics.
Professional experience: Alan was a teacher at Perth Amboy High School in Perth Amboy NJ from 1987 until 2005. Currently Alan is a teacher at Glen Rock High School in Glen Rock NJ. He has been an AP Psychology consultant for The College Board since 1994. Alan has been a consultant at many psychology summer programs and at over 60 College Board AP Psychology institutes and workshops. He has been a reader of the AP Psychology examination since its inception in 1992. From 2004-2008 Alan was a table leader at the AP Psychology reading. Alan was a member of the ETS AP Psychology Test Development Committee from 2001-2005. He is frequent contributor AP Central for AP psychology. He was an adjunct instructor for 12 years at Middlesex County College in Edison NJ where he taught introductory psychology, child development, social psychology, educational psychology, and abnormal psychology. He served on the TOPSS Executive Board for six years. In 1994 Alan received the Moffet Teaching Award for high school teaching from Division Two of the American Psychological Association and in 2003 Alan received Princeton University's Distinguished Secondary Teaching Award. In 1994 and 1996, Alan was an instructor and researcher on the triarchic approach to teaching psychology under the direction of Robert Sternberg of Yale University.
Education: Alan has a Masters degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in development psychology. He has taken numerous additional courses in history, mathematics, and literature.
Personal: Alan currently lives in Paramus NJ with too many books and a very large collection of psychology DVD videos. His hobbies are playing table tennis (once he was a ranked player), tennis, reading, and bicycling.
Anthony Gyapong
Dr. Anthony O. Gyapong has been an Associate Professor of Economics at Penn State University-Abington Campus for over 15 years where he teaches both Introductory Macroeconomics and Introductory Microeconomics. He is a former Advanced Placement examination Reader in Economics. Anthony has 10 years as Consultant for the College Board as an AP Workshop Instructor or 1/2 day and full day seminars as well as Summer Institutes.
Arna Margolis
Arna Margolis is the senior faculty member at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore where she has taught history from grades 5 through grade 12, chaired the History Department and developed the Edith Hamilton Scholars Program. Currently Arna teaches World History and AP World History as well as being a college counselor. She holds degrees from Goucher College and the Johns Hopkins University and has participated in several Fulbright and NEH seminars and institutes. Arna participated in the initial discussions leading to the creation of the AP World History program and in 2002, the first year of the AP World examination, moved from scoring AP European to World. She is a table leader and College Board workshop consultant as well as a reviewer of College Board workshop materials. Arna enjoys opera, and antique-ethnic textiles.
Marc Schimsky
Marc Schimsky is a 35-year veteran educator who has taught art at all levels of education and a well-regarded professional fine artist. He is a College Board certified AP Studio Art Faculty Consultant, a former AP Studio Art Exam Reader (2000-2004), an AP Studio Art Curriculum Audit Reviewer and a former secondary level Art Instructional Specialist for the Smithtown Central School District, Smithtown, NY. Marc has been a session leader at many AP Art conferences and has led numerous AP Studio Art Summer Institutes throughout the Middle States Region. He has also been a contributor to the Teacher's Guide for AP Studio Art 2003-2005. Marc has received numerous teaching awards from a variety of sources including the P. Buckley Moss Children's Charities Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and was a receipient of the Louis E. Yavner Teaching Award from the New York State Board of Regents. He has also been recognized by the New York State Art Teachers Association as Suffolk County Art Teacher of the Year. Marc received his bachelor's degree in art education from the State University of New York, College at Buffalo, and his MFA from Pratt Institute.
Maria Schmidt
Maria Schmidt is the former Supervisor of Social Studies K-12 for the Westfield Public Schools in Westfield, New Jersey. She began teaching social studies at the high school level in 1972 and initiated the high school law-related education program and Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics course at Westfield High School. She is an attorney and former Adjunct Professor of Education at Seton Hall University.
Dr. Schmidt has served as a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader at the annual Reading of the AP Government and Politics examination and currently serves as a consultant for the College Board leading Advanced Placement workshops and summer institutes throughout the United States. She authored the 1993 edition of the "Teacher's Guide for Courses in AP United States Government and Politics" published by the College Board and in 2002 and 2005 edited the 4th and 5th editions of "Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions in Preparations for the AP United States Government and Politics Examination" and the accompanying "Teacher's Manual" published by D & S Marketing, Inc. In 2006 she worked with the Congressional Quarterly Press in developing AP US Government and Politics teaching material ancillaries for use with Congressional Quarterly Press US Government textbooks.
Edward Weiss
Edward Weiss is the chair of the World Language Department at Haverford Township School District. He has been a reader and table leader at the AP reading for the past ten years. Ed is also a consultant for College Board in French language. He is a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Grant and a three time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ed has presented at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, at the College Board National Conference and has been named teacher of the year in his district.
Pamela Wolfe
Pamela Wolfe has taught AP European History for 21 years and is currently the social studies department chair at the Yeshiva of Greater Washington in Silver Spring, Maryland. A consultant for the College Board for 11 years and scorer for the past 12 years, Pamela has led AP summer institutes at Penn State University and the University of South Florida, and has been a table leader at the AP European History Reading since 2003. She was named to the AP European History Test Development Committee for 2007-08.
