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ATA Alum Blake Davis Beats Nations Top Team
ATA alum and current Florida State University Seminole Blake Davis and partner Dominic Controne dominated the number one doubles team in the nation this past Friday. In a dual match versus Virginia, Davis and Controne devastated the top team of…
Community Support Makes the Grade at CP
| Financial Forces | Belly Brain | Art Attack | Big Decisions Amazing qualities of the people that make up the ATA community are apparent, not only through the breadth of knowledge, but also through the generosity of giving and…
Write Like You Mean It!
“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of…
Skype Bridges Gap Between Classroom and Traveling Students
Austin Tennis Academy and ATA College Prep are constantly striving to grasp the power of technology to better serve its students. Through interaction via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and the ATA website, or analyzing intricate technique with the latest in…
Tennis Ball Cannons
from Travis, student contributor The past few weeks, the Geometry class and the Advanced Algebra class (both taught by Bryan Rutherford) have been constructing Tennis Ball Cannons. They will be powered by a small force of combustion, building up an…
Parent-Teacher Night @ CP
Wow! Parent-Teacher Night… this community never ceases to amaze me! If you were a fly on the wall: 1) you would have witnessed a community of devoted and caring parents sitting side by side, packed like sardines, on the picnic…
What Happens at CP?
Today… Two middle school students sit down in the Library in front of the white board and, by memory, hand draw a map of the world. Four others are outside wrangling the horses and learning how to manage not only…
Race to Nowhere
“Race to Nowhere” is an education documentary that challenges current thinking about how to best prepare our students for success. It encourages us to rethink not only WHAT it is we are preparing our children for but HOW we go…
Bag Check
I have heard Coach Doug call a player’s tennis bag a ‘life line’. It should contain everything you may need on the island of the competitive tennis court. My son, Josh, is meticulous about his tennis bag and its contents…
CP Students Celebrate Chinese New Year!
from Morgan, student contributor Chinese New Year is here! This year is the year of the snake. The first day of Chinese New Year is February 10th, so the New Year is well underway. The Chinese New Year celebration lasts…
Ode To A Copious Vocabulary
Each week, CP students are challenged and tested with 10 new SAT worthy vocabulary words. The ongoing contest is who can use them most eloquently in daily conversation… this week, Coach Newman wins. I was in San Antonio watching the…
Meditate Your Way to Genius
CP students practice square breathing at the beginning of each school day. They practice Alpha on the courts before the beginning of practice. They practice ‘the golden’ in between points. What do these things have in common? They are all…
School Kills Creativity
If you have not had the pleasure to contemplate Sir Ken Robinson’s views on education… take a few moments to watch this TED Talk.
Nurturing Nature
According to Joshua Leibman, author of Peace of Mind, “There is here no fatalism of endowment.” Recently, I was gifted with a Bonsai tree. I always admired images of these miniature works of art – carefully cultivated and delicately crafted over…
Did Thomas Edison Get an “A” in Light Bulb Design Class?
In all of the serious aspects of our lives, do we really remember the powerful relationship between creative play… and thinking? Problem solving comes from exploration. If the silly ideas of the ‘impossible’ are ignored, passed over and closed down…