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 →How Students and Teachers Teach Us About Learning Any teacher, student, administrator, or counselor involved with ATDP will tell you without hesitation that the program exists to serve students. Many of those same folks might also tell you that ATDP’s primary purpose would put it into opposition to the role of educational researchers. They might […]
Read More →Part 1 (in the Summer ’09 issue): From Berkeley to Watts, and Back Again If this were an east coast prep school, we might say that it’s all about school ties—alumni of a prestigious institution making certain that valuable educational and social experiences are shared with people “just like them” (meaning others already targeted for […]
Read More →Dear ATDP students, parents, alumni, and friends, At ATDP we think of ourselves as a family. The program orientations held before each Division begins its session are our family reunions. But right about now, there isn’t any reason why we can’t get together (virtually) one more time before we start talking about 2009. The newsletter […]
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