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 →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]) […]
Read More →Re-refashioning the Virtual ATDP by Sam Pierce In order to make it easier to access information and resources (including fellow students and families), much of our effort has been spent on ATDP’s online presence. Along with our usual course catalog, we’re looking forward to rolling out a new website this winter. It’ll look much like […]
Read More →Inside this issue… Features Continuing the Academic Conversation Leaving ATDP Smiling: A Look Back on Nina’s 44 Years of Service to Education Research at ATDP: Why We Do It and How It’s Used How did they do that? Cognitive Neuroscience Extra-Terrestrial Trigonometry First-Year Japanese Human Anatomy & Physiology New at ATDP Important dates for our 2012 […]
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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 […]
Read More →Welcome to week four of ATDP. This week, you’re carrying half the summer’s work on your shoulders, looking forward at the other half, and thinking, “How on Earth am I going to carry all of this weight?” Here’s the good part: once the reality of the task ahead settles in, you take a deep breath […]
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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!
Read More →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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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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