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Sheba Brown
President, A+ Test Prep
Location: Durham, NC United States
Joined: Sep 8th, 2013

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Sheba Lowe Brown, founder and president of A+ Test Prep & Academic Services, is in her twentieth season as an educator. She is also an instructor with Duke Youth Program's SAT/ACT Test Prep division, Academic Director of Duke's Constructing Your College Experience, and an ongoing facilitator for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Heels for Success program. At NCSU, Sheba served as a professional development leader and traveled the state of NC assisting school administrators and teachers with online formative assessments and data analysis. Sheba currently serves as an educational consultant and curriculum developer specializing in college admissions testing, utilization of ACT data, ACT prep program development, and Common Core Standards curriculum alignment. A former NC Teaching Fellow and Nationally Board Certified and licensed in Language Arts and ESL, Sheba earned a BA and MAT in Education from UNC-Chapel Hill. During her career as the lead instructor with A+ Test Prep, she has coached students to perfect and near-perfect SAT scores and helped teachers successfully prepare for the Praxis .

Education (request update)

North Carolina Central University class of 1998

Undergrad Major: Education

Claim To Fame:

Test Prep 2012-2013: 100% of our students improved their scores; 85% earned scholarships; hundreds of thousands in earned scholarship dollars; A Gates Millennium Scholar headed to Dartmouth; Eight students with 100-point or more score increases in SAT score; An average 180 point increase for spring 2013 A+ scholars who took the SAT Three students with SAT score increases over 200 points (200, 210 and 240 points; A Watson and Odyssey Scholar headed to Elon ($21,000/year; ) A Howard University Presidential Scholar; A Hampton University Academic Scholar; Two full scholarship qualifiers (as juniors) after taking A+ courses; An average 70-point increase for all A+ scholars in fall 2012 classes who took the SAT Professional Development Leadership 2012-2013  Understanding and Using ACT Data for Student Success (McMichael High School), 2013  Reading More & Achieving the Core: Moving ACT, PLAN, & EXPLORE Scores Up (Rockingham County Schools Professional Development Conference), 2013  Turning Scores into Scholarships (National College Advising Corps, UNC-Chapel Hill), 2013  Praxis Prep II for Lateral-entry Teachers (Warren County Schools), 2013  ACT Fundamentals (Elkin High School), March 2013  ACT Fundamentals (Rockingham County Schools) February 2013  Higher Scores on the ACT (Cary Academy), February 2013  Virtual SAT Class  Common Core: A Model Lesson Across the Curriculum, Warren County Schools, February 2013  Praxis Preparation Professional Development: Vance County Schools, January 2013  National College Advising Corps Professional Development: The ACT & Common Core Connection, January 2013  Duke University Student Research Opportunities Program: GRE Prep (2013, 2012, 2011)  Common Core & Implications for Teaching & Learning (Presenter, NC School Board Association Conference) November 2012  Higher Scores on the SAT (Jordan High School), September 2012  The ACT & Common Core: A Win-Win (Presenter), September 2012  Higher Learning 101: Getting Ready to Apply (Presenter), September 2012  Technology Tools: Recipes for Success (Presenter), August 2012  Fox50 Tarheel Talk Panelist (Preparing for College Episode), August 2012  Duke AHEC Health Careers Festival Presenter: “What Parents Need to Know about the SAT, September 2012