Better late...

(lloyd) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:11:40 GMT

...than never. ;-)

This isn't exactly fresh news, but... ATDP has started again! Summer 2009 is here, and websites within the Virtual ATDP are sprouting like... like, uhm... summer broccolli? Fava bean plants? Raddicchio?

At any rate, I'm posting site URLs now, so go there...

Yearbook 2008

(Nate) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:36:48 GMT

The 2008 ATDP Yearbook is now live!

First week

(lloyd) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:10:37 GMT

ATDP started! Right. :-)

Every Child's Right

(lloyd) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:17:15 GMT

A signal event in the life of ATDP is taking place. The book on ATDP—Every Child's Right: Academic Talent Development by Choice, not Chance—by Lauren A. Sosniak and ATDP Director Nina Hersch Gabelko, is being published by Teacher's College Press (and may be purchased online at that barnesandnoble.com).

No child should have to be identified as “gifted” in order to benefit from a rich, challenging learning experience. This book tells the story of the Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) at UC Berkeley, an example of a long-standing, self-supporting summer program that shifted from “mining” to “growing” talent. The authors provide an insider’s view of the teachers, students, curriculum, and school culture as a model for creating academic enrichments programs in and out of school. Advocating for a more inclusive view of talent and its development, this lively book:

Examines a well-respected talent development program that serves children and youth beyond the more typical group identified as“gifted.”
Describes practices that have been successful with elementary students as well as high school students preparing to enter college.
Offers compelling portraits of real children delighting in intellectually demanding and engaging learning.
Identifies what is required of society and schools to offer an ATDP-type of education to all children in all classrooms.

Read what others have had to say about Every Child's Right:

“A brilliant and eye-opening account of a university-style education for primary and secondary students. The writing is rich, the examples are evocative, and the voices of children and their teachers inspire! Here, talent is nurtured in all students, with powerful consequences. This is truly ‘gifted education’ in action, not education for the gifted. Gabelko and Sosniak make an important contribution to the debate about gifted education and education in general.”
—Rhona S. Weinstein, author, Reaching Higher: The Power of Expectations in Schooling

“Sosniak and Gabelko, two masterful storytellers, share Berkeley's best kept secret - the incredible success of the Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP). They make a powerful and compelling case for focusing more attention and resources on developing talent among youth from all socioeconomic backgrounds. ATDP, with its K-12 partners, has prepared a new generation of leaders, including many from rural and urban communities with historically low college-going rates. This book provides renewed hope and inspiration for educators, policymakers and others who are working to eliminate the achievement gap that exists in too many K-12 schools.”
—Joseph I. Castro, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor, Student Academic Affairs, University of California, San Francisco

“Nina Gabelko has always demonstrated how education at its very best motivates and inspires. I know this because she was my teacher 30 years ago! In Every Child’s Right, Nina and Lauren Sosniak provide convincing examples of how educational privilege can cross longstanding racial and economic boundaries. I hope that every parent, teacher, and educational policymaker concerned with educational excellence will read this powerful and affecting book.”
—Brian Copeland, author, Not a Genuine Black Man

“As a former student of Flossie Lewis's, I read this dynamic and comprehensive book with one eye on my lucky past and one on a better future. I hope every educator reads it, as Mrs. Lewis is apparently too lazy to teach every single child in America herself.”
—Daniel Handler, author and screenwriter, best known for his work under his pen name, Lemony Snicket.

Happy new year!

(lloyd) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:34:14 GMT

We open the new year with the ATDP website updated with info for the 2008 summer session, including downloadable applications and PDFs of the printed catalog.

Halfway through

(lloyd) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:01:45 GMT

The Secondary Division is half over (though the Elem. Div. starts today). Amazing how time flies for those of us here in the midst of this program.

Many course websites are active, and some hint at continuing past the actual summer session.

Course websites coming online

(lloyd) — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:03:00 GMT

Course sites, mostly of the IoCM variety, are appearing here.

Ms. Cowan's Intro. to Drawing Course in action today:

Summer 2007 begins!

(lloyd) — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:16:50 GMT

Anew...

Happy New Year!

(lloyd) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:32:03 GMT

The Summer Sesion 2007 catalog is at the printer, and will be on its way to students and families soon. However, eager applicants may find the PDF versions of the 2007 applications at the ATDP website now.

The yearbook photos...

(lloyd) — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:42:17 GMT

...are being taken this week. Here's one class', Maria Ashot's AM Writing for HS section:

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