Mary Ashcraft holds a B.A. from Grinnell College and an M.A. in German from the University of Kansas. She taught high school German for over 25 years in the Cleveland area, and most recently served as Foreign Language Department chair and AP German teacher at Shaker Heights High School. Her involvement with the Advanced Placement Program includes 15 years as a classroom teacher and 5 years as a College Board consultant and AP Exam Reader. As an active member of the AATG, she served on the Diversity Committee, was elected to the Executive Council in 2004, and was awarded the AATG/Goethe Insitut Certificate of Merit in 2007. She has presented national and local professional workshops on a variety of topics, including Jugendliteratur, the united Germany, oral proficiency, music in the foreign language classroom, reading skills, cross-disciplinary ecology units, and the use of the Internet. She is currently the College Board Advisor for Advanced Placement German, and a part-time instructor of German at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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