The interview below is a part of a series on New ATDP Courses for 2013. Barbara Stebbins discusses her upcoming Elementary Division course, The Invisible Living World. Read the course description here. Why is it important for elementary-aged students to study biology (or science in general)? Science is the best subject for elementary students, […]
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Inquiry and Experiment: Jay Chugh on Advanced Biotechnology
The interview below is a part of a series on New ATDP Courses for 2013. Jay Chugh discusses his upcoming course, Advanced Biotechnology. Read the course description here. How will Advanced Biotechnology be different from our Introduction to Biotechnology course, which you have taught in the past? Students in Advanced Biotechnology will conduct similar […]
Read More →AIC Returns: Shawn McDonald and Sam Pierce on Web Development
The interview below is a part of a series on New ATDP Courses for 2013. Shawn McDonald and Sam Pierce discuss their upcoming course, Web Development (AIC). (See course description.) What is Web Development, and how is it different from advanced web design courses that ATDP has offered in the past? What will students […]
Read More →ED Faculty Make Advances in Comp. Sci. Instruction
Dr. Colleen Lewis has been teaching with us since 2009, and her goal each summer is not only to teach her students but to learn from them—her research at ATDP has yielded four publications that will help inform computer science teaching all over the world.
Read More →On “Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education”
Interim Director Adena Young interviews ATDP Faculty Director and Talent Development Researcher Frank Worrell on his recent article in Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Read More →Unlikely Twins: Making Peer Effects Explicit
Public mass transportation policy is a career path for two ATDP alumni. Their post-secondary education and career paths are as similar as their pre-collegiate lives were dissimilar, until each came to ATDP.
Read More →Bragging Rights: Christina Büchmann, Advanced Reading & Writing
I know that this email conversation belongs in the Bragging Rights column, but I can’t single out who’s bragging: the teacher, the student, or ATDP for having the privilege of working with such teachers and students. This conversation begins on December 5th, when Dr. Christina Büchmann, ATDP’s 2010 and 2011 Advanced Reading and Writing instructor, […]
Read More →How to Get to Sesame Street: A San Francisco Counselor Finds Herself in Nigeria
Many Secondary Division students, especially middle schoolers, know and have enjoyed working with Amy Abdallah as our ATDP-GearUp counselor. Amy had worked at the San Francisco Unified School District for years, but all of a sudden this past fall, I couldn’t find her. Just as I was starting to wonder “Where in the World is […]
Read More →Leaving ATDP Smiling
As the Director of the Academic Talent Development Program for the past 24 years, Nina Hersch Gabelko has created meaningful and lasting learning and teaching experiences for over 27,600 students and close to 700 teachers.
Read More →Going the Distance with Style and Grace
Students frequently compare ATDP’s Secondary Division to an academic marathon, so I find it wise to ask marathon runners (who are also ATDP instructors) for advice on going the distance. One of the most dedicated marathoners, along with Kelly Mogilefsky, whom we featured in 2010, is our highly respected teacher of accelerated Geometry, Mr. Nakia […]
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