Category: News & Announcements

Reminder: July 4th Holiday

Don’t forget: campus is closed on Monday, July 4th! Students in Monday classes should make sure that they (and their parents) know when and where their classes will be meeting to make up the time. Please let the office know if you’ll need to miss your make-up day. Have a wonderful long weekend!

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S’11 Week 2: From the Director

Oski the Cal bear wants YOU to have a wonderful time. Oh, and he wants you to work smart, too. Here you are already starting the second week of your ATDP class and every student I have met is still smiling, making friends, and learning, learning, learning. It is always a delight to see how […]

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Paid Learning Experiment

Hi everyone! Please read the following announcement from Lauren Barth-Cohen, one of this summer’s instructors for Introducing Physics: Dear Parents & Students, My name is Lauren Barth-Cohen. I’m a doctoral student at Berkeley. We are looking to recruit high school students for a research study on student’s conceptual learning in science. For this study we […]

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Tutoring is now available!

Tutoring sign-up sheets are posted on quite a few of the walls surrounding the ATDP office (3639 Tolman)! The math students are already swarming; students of writing, Psychology, Sociology, and Japanese, it’s time for you to catch up! See you all soon :)

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From the Director – Week 1

At our ATDP Family Orientation a couple of weeks ago, I spoke about what it means to join the academic conversation as part of a learning community. Let’s make that our theme for the summer. We hope that your participation in the academic conversation will assist and support you as you grow into the person […]

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Every journey is simply a series of steps

… but the first step is not always simple. Welcome to the ATDP Commons.  This section of our website is the potential successor to The Virtual ATDP (TVA) as an online portal for students, instructors, and the greater ATDP community. My long term goal is to integrate all of our online resources: news, research, online […]

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Community Newsletter Vol. 3

Everyone at ATDP Is Here to Learn Students, Instructional Associates, Expert Teachers, Doctoral Students and Professors At ATDP, we grow academic talent; we don’t mine for it. This includes everyone affiliated with the program. Our group begins with novice scientists aged 5 and extends upward to Secondary Division, to ATDP teachers, to doctoral students, professors, […]

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Contribute to the Newsletter!

This Newsletter is All About You Our ATDP Newsletters, during the summer program and throughout the school year, exist to keep you (and us) connected to our extended community. Whether you’re a parent, a student, an alum, an instructor, or just a friend, we invite you to share your experiences with the rest of the […]

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Community Newsletter Vol. 2

Dear ATDP students, parents, alumni, and friends Vignettes from the Summer of ’09 by Teachers Patty, Paul, Nate and Junko-sama From Watts to Berkeley, Part 2 by Erin Donohue AP Art History at ATDP by Laura Shefler A Day in the Life of Washington School… An ED photo gallery from Summer ’09 Classes jumping for […]

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Tidbits from Summer ’09

1—ATDP at the GSE’s Commencement Under the direction of Associate Dean and Graduate School of Education choirmaster, ATDP Faculty Director Frank C. Worrell, the choir sings a beautifully arranged madrigal at the School’s commencement ceremonies earlier this summer. The audience listens in rapt attention, as one by one they figure out that the words are […]

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