Board Materials Stories 2010

Grimsley High Teacher Honored with Siemens Award for Advanced Placement
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Guilford County Board of Education
Regular Meeting
March 25, 2010

To:Members, Board of Education

From:Maurice O. Green, Superintendent
Nora Carr, Chief of Staff

Date:March 19, 2010

RE:Grimsley High Teacher Honored with Siemens Award for Advanced Placement

Roberta Rohan, a math teacher at Grimsley High, received the prestigious Siemens Award for Advanced Placement (AP). She is one of 50 teachers nationwide and the only teacher from North Carolina to receive the award.

Rohan, a Grimsley graduate, has taught at Grimsley since 1996 and is in her 17th year of teaching in Guilford County Schools. She teaches Algebra I, AP Calculus and IB Higher Level Math. Her students’ consistent performance on the AP Calculus AB and Calculus BC exams are a large part of her Siemens award. Last year, about 79 percent of her Calculus AB students passed the AP exam. This compares to a national passage rate of about 60 percent on the exam. The performance of her Calculus BC students is even more impressive. Last year, as compared to a national passage rate of about 79 percent, 100 percent passed the exam and more than half of her students earned the top score of 5.

Selection for the Siemens award is based on excellence in teaching in science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses as measured by student performance on AP exams. The organization selects one teacher per state and awards a $1,000 grant to the teacher's school to support science and math education.

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