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Our Virtual Summer Training Institute is later this month! Rob Kodama and young women he has coached over the last decades will provide a unique workshop. To join this workshop, learn more about our Summer Training Institute, and to register, click here: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2025/. Because each keynote and workshop …
May 30, 2025
Our Virtual Summer Training Institute is just around the corner! We are thrilled that long-time educator Kimberly Dunn will present a workshop on helping our learning challenged children. To hear her speak, to learn more about our Summer Training Institute, and to register, click here: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2025/. Because each …
May 26, 2025
That boys are now more likely to own a smartphone than to live with their dad is striking. ********** The headline on The Guardian’s Opinion Page (a newspaper from England, the US Edition), says: Boys need mentors, not marketers. The opinion piece was written in response to, and …
May 16, 2025
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