All freshmen attending Milwaukee High School of the Arts will be enrolled in Pre-AP classes. The Pre-AP Program offers consistent, high standards in focused courses that help build, strengthen, and reinforce students’ content knowledge and skills. Pre-AP courses get students ready for AP and other college-level coursework. Pre-AP courses are designed to be the standard, baseline course in each respective subject. Pre-AP is for ALL students.
Pre-AP Shared Instructional Principles
- Close Observation and Analysis
- Higher-Order Questioning
- Evidence-Based Writing
- Academic Conversations
Benefits of the Pre-AP Program
Pre-AP is about achieving results for all students. Here’s how the program is designed to accomplish that.
- Engaging resources meet students where they are.
- Meaningful feedback shows teachers where each student needs additional support and focus.
- Effective practice helps every student to build, strengthen, and master content knowledge and skills.
- Flexibility in instructional resources honors the skill and authority of teachers.
- Challenging coursework emphasizes key literacy, quantitative, and analysis skills across all five disciplines and reinforces these skills in multiple classroom experiences.
- Open access — a program requirement—means that Pre-AP courses and their high-quality instruction and assessments will serve all students
Pre-AP Goals
- Significantly increase the number of students who are able to access and complete college-level work—like AP—before leaving high school.
- Improve the college readiness of all students.
MHSA Pre-AP Course Offerings!
- Biology
- Chemistry
- English 9
- English 10
- World History and Geography
- Dance
- Music Theory
- Theatre
- Visual Art
What Our Students Are Saying
Pre-Ap classes have helped to teach me individual and group skills that will help me better prepare for a successful future.”
– Alexander Eberhage, Visual Arts Major
Pre-AP teaches advanced skills that help to make more difficult material understandable. It has been very helpful to be able to apply these skills across the different classes that I have.”
– Amya Camberos, Visual Arts Major
Principal Message
“Pre-AP is a new program offered by the College Board. The program was developed to strengthen students’ college readiness skills to prepare them for college-level coursework. Our goal is that Pre-AP will develop the skills and confidence to succeed in Advanced Placement courses and other related college-level coursework. Students at MHSA are able to experience the rigor of Pre-AP instruction in both their core academic areas and art area majors” – Mr. Farris, MHSA Principal
Pre-AP Contacts
Pre-AP/AP Coordinator
Ms. Dean
deansx@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-Ap Biology
Mr. Butters
butterm@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Ms. Kacheslki
kachelmp@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Ms. Williams
willi161@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mr. Goetsch
goetscap@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-Ap Chemistry
Dr. Redlick
redlicmd@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Ms. Williams
willi161@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mr. Goetsch
goetscap@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-Ap English 9
Mr. Gaa
gaavj@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Ms. Barnes
barnesg@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mr. Sarandos
sarandtm@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-Ap English 10
Mr. Branderhorst
brandeas@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mr. Sarandos
sarandtm@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mr. Grihalva
grihaljs@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Dr. Whalen
whalenpj@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-AP Dance
Mr. Drews
drewsda@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-AP Music
Mr. Amaya
amayap@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mr. Henkel
Pre-AP Theatre
Ms. LaCroix
collenta@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-AP Visual Arts
Ms. Glazewski
glazewmr@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mx. Knight
knightrm@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Pre-AP World History and Geography
Mr. Littlejohn
littlemr@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Mr. Gentile
gentiljm@milwaukee.k12.wi.us