Nanci Bush is currently an AP English Language and Composition teacher at Solon High School in Ohio.
Throughout the course of her 29-year career, she has taught English 9-12, Speech, Reading, Yearbook, and Journalism. Nanci earned a BA in English and a BS in English Education from The Ohio State University. She earned her Masters in Education from Kent State, writing her thesis on teacher assumptions about the writing process; she presented her findings at the International NCTE Conference in Bordeaux, France.
Her professional awards include being named as Ohio’s Outstanding Language Arts Educator in 2000 and being honored as a Presidential Scholar’s Honorary Teacher in 2003.
Nanci has served as both a Reader and Table Leader for the College Board, a transformative experience which enhanced her skill as a writing teacher. In her 20 years as an AP Consultant, Nanci has presented at numerous conferences and workshops, the AP Annual Conference, and Advanced Placement Summer Institutes both nationally and internationally. Nanci was endorsed as a member of the Pre-AP National Faculty in 2019.
Nanci’s National Writing Project experiences have made her an advocate of student publications; she has advised the school yearbook, newspaper, or literary magazine for most of her career. In her own classroom, Bush emphasizes writing for an audience and encourages students to publish their writing.
Bush is also a fan of Multigenre papers and has presented her work at NCTE Denver with Tom Romano. She has also published a chapter of her work on Multigenre in Content-Based Standards.
You can email Nanci at nanci914@neo.rr.com
