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Webinars – Celebrating the Second Decade!
Fall 2026 Webinars
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“The New AP Latin Curriculum—Reflections on the Inaugural Year”
Jennie Luongo, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Austin, TX
Nationally recognized as an accomplished teacher, Luongo is beloved for the many years she has shared her insights into the AP Latin curriculum and its corresponding exam iterations. She has served the AP Latin community in multiple ways. For this webinar, Luongo will draw on her experiences this past year as AP Latin teacher, Exam Leader, AP Latin Summer Institute consultant, and contributor to the development of the new curriculum. Using her experience teaching the new curriculum and at the first Reading of the new exam, she will focus on tips and suggestions for teaching the new curriculum. As speaker, Luongo brings both expertise and experience as well as clarity of expression and a good sense of humor. This is a not-to-be-missed professional development opportunity.
Jennie Luongo has taught Latin at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, TX for over 30 years. She has taught every level of high school Latin from level 1 to post-AP, in addition to running study programs in Italy and Greece for students and adults. She has served as Lead Consultant for AP Latin; as Moderator of the AP Latin Online Teacher Community; as a Reader, and Question Leader, and Exam Leader; as a member of the Development Committee; and as the College Board Advisor for AP Latin. Luongo is beloved for her work presenting Advanced Placement Summer Institutes for Latin both online and in-person and is one of the consultants tasked with presenting the inaugural AP In Practice professional development series offered by the College Board. She served as the Certamen Chair for the National Junior Classical League and as President of the American Classical League for two terms. In 2018, she was awarded the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Teaching Award and was given the inaugural Gaylan DuBose Teaching Award by the Texas Classical Association. In 2021, she coauthored (with Jennifer Sheridan Moss) the seminal article “Aligning an AP Latin Course to the Standards for Classical Language Learning.” Luongo earned her BA in Classics from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master’s from Texas State University.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Latin”
Junius Johnson PhD, The Classical Mind Podcast
Johnson’s webinar will explore what is and is not changing for the students as they move from their familiar Classical Latin to Christian Latin, revealing under-appreciated continuities while highlighting the most salient discontinuities. He will demonstrate these points from Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Augustine, and the Vulgate. Johnson will discuss the value of teaching these early Christian writers to provide students a fuller understanding of the Latin language, of the broad corpus of Latin writings, and of the foundations of Western thought.
Junius Johnson is a highly sought after speaker, teacher, and writer. His scholarly interests include theology, philosophy, and literature. He earned a BA in English Literature from Oral Roberts University, and from Yale University, an MAR in Historical Theology, an MPhil in Medieval Studies and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in Philosophical Theology. He served as a Lecturer in Ecclesiastical Latin at Yale Divinity School and as an Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Baylor University. He is now the Executive Director of Junius Johnson Academics through which he offers online courses for adult learners and secondary school students as well as videos for educators. Johnson is the author of Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Fortress Press, 2010), Patristic and Medieval Atonement Theory: A Guide to Research (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Bonaventure on the Eucharist: Commentary on the Sentences, Book IV, dist. 8-13 (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, 2017), The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty (Baker Academic, 2020), and On Teaching Fairy Stories: A Guide to Cultivating Wonder in Students (Classical Academic Press, 2023).
RegisterTuesday, November 17, 2026
5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Integrating Latin Novellas into Your Classroom”
Ross Shaler, University of Florida
Ross Shaler is recognized as an accomplished Latin teacher and for his enthusiastic integration of novellas in the Latin classroom. His webinar will discuss novellas and how to use them in the classroom to build enthusiasm for learning Latin and to cultivate student confidence as readers of Latin. Language acquires meaning with context, and participants will learn how novellas can be used to engage students with targeted cultural or historical topics while keeping them rooted in the target language, Latin. Whether you want to structure your Latin pedagogy around novellas or use them as a supplement for a textbook, this webinar will provide clear strategies and examples for how to increase your students’ confidence with and enjoyment of reading Latin through the use of novellas.
Ross Shaler has taught Latin at Freeport High School and Winthrop High School, both in Maine. Shaler serves as secretary for the Maine Classical Association for whom he has been a regular presenter. He earned his BA with a double major in History and Classical Studies from the University of Southern Maine and a Masters in Classical Studies from the University of Kansas. He is currently finishing his dissertation on representations of the Germani and accounts of bellum Germanum in Latin literature for his doctorate in Latin and Roman Civilization from the University of Florida. Shaler first studied Latin in high school. A Roman history enthusiast since middle school, he thought it would be interesting to read texts written by the Romans. Shaler decided to be a high school teacher while teaching an introductory Latin course at KU as a graduate teaching assistant—”working with Latin students was often the highlight of my day.”
New AP Latin Curriculum Webinars
During the 2024–2025 academic year, B-C offered a set of webinars that explored the new AP Latin Curriculum. Given the significance of the AP Latin Curriculum change, we made an exception to our usual practice and provided recordings of these webinars. These are still available on our 2026 New AP Latin Curriculum pages.
Bolchazy-Carducci | New 2026 AP Latin curriculum changes
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