Meet Our Consultants — Office of Admissions

All of our consultants are endorsed by College Board and have extensive experience in their content areas.

Some of our consultants are multiple-year instructors and others are first-time instructors at our institute. All are excited to work with you and share their knowledge.

	Janine Draschner US History: New Experienced Janine Draschner has taught AP US History at Falls Church High School in Falls Church, VA for the past 11 years. She has been a reader at the AP US History Reading since 2015 and a table leader since 2018. Janine has been a consultant for the College Board since 2016, first with AP Insight (a College Board program which was folded into AP Classroom), and then as a presenter of workshops and AP Summer Institutes. She has also conducted several presentations on teaching history for Fairfax County Public Schools. Janine has had an article published in the journal Foreign Affairs and more recently, co-authored a chapter on teaching the economic causes of the Civil War in the book, just published, Teaching the Causes of the American Civil War (Peter Lang Press). Historically speaking, Janine considers herself fortunate to have grown up in New England and lived in Virginia for the past 30 years. She has travelled the east coast (primarily) visiting hundreds of historical places and now prefers finding and contemplating the more neglected parts of our shared American history. One of her greatest interests continues to be wandering around old cemeteries, hoping to discover some of their secrets.
	Lee Kucera Statistics: New and Experienced Lee Kucera, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at UC Irvine for Statistics 7, an undergraduate intro course comparable to AP Statistics. She retired as the mathematics department chair at Capistrano Valley High School, Mission Viejo, CA, where she taught AP Statistics and IB Math Studies. She taught AP Statistics part-time at three Capistrano Unified high schools after retirement. She taught AP Statistics and served as a reader since the course’s inception in 1996-97 and including the 2020 and 2021 “Distributed Readings”. She has been a College Board consultant since 2001, presenting both weekend workshops and summer institutes throughout the United States and internationally. She reviews Statistics textbooks and AP Statistics review materials for several major publishers, Kahn Academy, and AP Central. She wrote curriculum materials for Texas Instruments for use with their graphing calculators and recently revised the statistical software and graphing calculator appendix for the new edition of Stats, Modeling the World. She is a member of the American Statistical Association and has had students enter and win both local and national recognition in their student competitions. She helped run the annual AP Statistics Student Poster Competition of her local ASA chapter for many years. Lee enjoys traveling (when we’re not in a pandemic), reading, spending time at the beach with her daughter (an AP Econ teacher) and 5-year-old granddaughter. She is also an active volunteer at the Assistance League in Laguna Beach, sings in her church choir. and is a T3 Regional Instructor.
	Michael Mayfield Environmental Science: New and Experienced Michael Mayfield has a M.S. from the University of Michigan in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and has been teaching environmental science for over 31 years. He teaches AP Environmental Science at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities in Muncie, Indiana and am Midwest area AP Environmental Science Consultant for the College Board. He began teaching AP summer institutes 21 years ago and has been an AP Exam reader since 2000, including ten years as a Table Leader. Lately he’s become involved with local sustainability initiatives. He hopes to bring these experiences to the sessions to share as we work collectively to demystify the Advanced Placement experience.
	Megan Neville English Literature and Composition: New and Experienced Megan Neville (she/her) has been teaching English language arts just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, for the past 18 years. She is a National Writing Project Teacher Consultant, a National Board Certified Teacher, and an exam reader for AP Literature and Composition. She is currently the English department coordinator at Cuyahoga Heights High School, where she also advises NHS, GSA, and Literary Society. Her poetry collection The Fallow will be published by Trio House Press in summer 2022.
	Pat Sherbert English Language and Composition: New and Experienced A career teacher, Pat taught AP English, Literature and Language, and coordinated the district Advanced Placement Program that she initiated in Broken Arrow Schools and continued in Tulsa Public Schools. She is a former member of the Southwest Regional Advanced Placement Advisory Council and of the College Board Academic Council. She consults for The College Board for Advanced Placement Institutes and Conferences and continues as a Consultant-Reader for Educational Testing Services. For six years, she wasa member of the Leadership Team for Language and Composition Exam as the Assistant Chief Reader and as the Alternate Exam Question Leader. Pat currently is a Reviewer for the Course Audits for Literature and Composition. She currently teaches at Lindenwood University for Introduction to Literature and Composition I and II.