How did fifth and sixth graders build their own metaphorical animal cells? by Paul Bruno Cell biology is often one of the most challenging topics in human anatomy & physiology. While much of human anatomy involves the study of larger body systems that students find more familiar – like the digestive system – cell structure […]
Read More →Extra-Terrestrial Trigonometry
How did elementary school students discover the sine, cosine and tangent? by Daniel Wolf-Root We live on a sphere (more or less), my students told me. If that’s the case, then how do we find the distance between two points on a sphere? After many students discovered a method for doing this along the surface of a sphere, Ryan […]
Read More →First-Year Japanese
How did Secondary Division students play their way to learning a new language? by Junko Hosoi From Nina Gabelko: Junko Hosoi, long-time sensei of ATDP’s First-Year Japanese and architect of our current Japanese language and culture program, continually amazes me with the joyfulness of her teaching. Her approach to instruction comes under the rubric of […]
Read More →Cognitive Neuroscience
How did high school students unlock the mysteries of the brain? by Paul Bulakowski Summer 2011 was the fourth continuous year ATDP has offered a neuroscience class, and the course has evolved and adapted each year to new knowledge as it develops. I proposed and developed the course as a means of mentoring advanced ATDP […]
Read More →How Did They Do That?
As high as expectations are at ATDP, students and teachers frequently exceed them. Take an inside look at excellent student work in four ATDP courses.
Read More →How Did They Do That?
As high as expectations are at ATDP, students and teachers frequently exceed them. Take an inside look at excellent student work in four ATDP courses.
Read More →How Did They Do That?
As high as expectations are at ATDP, students and teachers frequently exceed them. Take an inside look at excellent student work in four ATDP courses.
Read More →Research at ATDP: Why We Do It and How It’s Used
Why does ATDP conduct research? What happens to the findings once ATDP research studies are completed? Learn about the different ways that ATDP researchers share their research findings with teachers, parents, researchers, and other educators.
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 →Continuing the Academic Conversation
As you may already know, Nina Hersch Gabelko – ATDP’s director for almost a quarter of a century – retired on October 1st and Adena Young has been named interim director. (In case you missed it, you can read Adena’s account of Nina’s tenure, which was published in the final newsletter of Summer ’11 [PDF, 1.7 Mb]) […]
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