Skip Nicholson taught high school English for 41 years, retiring from South Pasadena High School in California, and is past head of the Secondary Section of the National Council of Teachers of English. He has led over 80 Advanced Placement workshops and summer institutes in over 30 different sites. He has been a mentor teacher in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute and a Visiting Teaching Associate in Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He now serves as member of the Folger Shakespeare Library National Teacher Corps. He has taught on-line courses for UCLA and the University of California, Riverside in English, theater, and education and chairs accreditation teams for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. His publications include Fast Track to a 5: Preparing for the AP® English Literature & Composition Examination for Wadsworth/Cengage; the Literature & Composition: Teacher’s Manual for Bedford/St Martin’s; and as consulting editor for five books in the National Textbook Company’s Shakespeare Series—Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet. He is currently Graphics Supervisor for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s ‘Folger Teaching Guide’ series to be published in 2024.
Advanced Placement Summer Institutes: multiple sites including St Johnsbury [VT] Academy APSI; Bellevue [WA] APSI; UC Riverside APSI; UC Davis APSI; Cal State Los Angeles APSI, Cal State San Marcos APSI; Pacific Lutheran University APSI, Tacoma; AP by the Sea, San Diego; Texas Christian University, Fort Worth; Phoenix Desert APSI; Auburn University APSI; Long Beach [CA] Unified School District APSI; Silver State APSI, Las Vegas; West Virginia Center for Professional Development APSI, Charleston, WV and Morgantown, WV; Hawai’i Pacific University, Kaneohe; Southern California APSI, San Gabriel; Arizona APSI; University of Arkansas Little Rock APSI, UCLA APSI, Oregon APSI
Advanced Placement Workshops: multiple sites including Occidental College, Los Angeles; Lincoln High School, Denver; Palos Verdes, CA; Bellevue, WA; Western Michigan University, Grand Rapids; Los Angeles Unified School District/College Board; Salt Lake City; NMSI, Hartford, CT; NMSI, Marlborough, MA; La Jolla, CA; Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, HI; Iowa City; San Mateo, CA.
With AP Canada: Vancouver, BC; Mill Bay, BC, Regina, SK; Edmonton, AB
