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The Gurian Institute has provided brain-based, research-driven, strategies-focused professional development, consulting, and training since 1996.

Michael Gurian and our Certified Trainers provide services and products for educators, parents, mental health professionals, and community leaders. Our work is a powerful deep dive into the minds of boys and girls that has been proven successful in helping diverse schools and communities throughout the world. Learning through a gender lens inspires, motivates, and changes lives!

**We serve you both on site and online, providing school-based training, parent keynotes, and much more--all services are available online and virtually. We can support and help your staff and parents navigate the new normal with greatest effectiveness.

**The commitment to gender equity and racial equity underlies all of our services and initiatives. Our work is race-, trauma-, poverty-, and gender-informed and non-discriminatory.

**Please email us at info@gurianinstitute.com to discuss how we can help you, your school, and your community.

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Educators and Professionals

Please Join Our Trainer Certification and Membership Initiative!

We have created a stream-lined program by which every school, district, organization, corporation, community, and family can have certified trainers embedded in them who are supported weekly to bring successful GI theory, practices, and strategies into systems.  To get certified yourself or to get  trainers certified where you are, check out our Trainer Certification page at https://gurianinstitute.com/trainer-certification/.

Some of our speaking and training topics:

• Boys and Girls Learn Differently: Strategies for Teaching Across the Curriculum

• The Minds of Boys and Girls: Helping Our Children Do Their Best in School and Life

*Culturally Responsive Teaching: Effective and Holistic Approaches to Race, Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity

*The Cultures We Make: Working Effectively with Boys and Girls of Color

• The Digital Brain: Assets and Effects of Screens, Smart Phones, and Social Media on the Developing Brain

• Trauma and Learning: ACES and Gender-Specific, Trauma-Informed Strategies for Helping Children Learn and Grow

• Parenting with the Brain in Mind: Success Strategies for Children of All Ages

• The Teen Brain: How to Nurture and Educate Brains That Are Changing Daily!

• Effective SEL: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys, Girls, and the Gender Spectrum

• For More Speaking and Training Topics, Please Click Our Programs Button

To bring Michael Gurian or Gurian Certified Trainers to your school, conference, or community, please contact info@gurianinstitute.com

 

To learn more about Helping Boys Thrive and the Helping Boys Thrive Summits, please click www.helpingboysthrive.org.

Parents

Dr. Glynetta Fletcher - Gurian Institute Program Director

“The Gurian training was the best professional development I ever had; it changed my teaching career—it gave me a different angle on education. The applications are practical, user friendly, and do not require a huge investment of money or technology.”
--Bill Rook HS Teacher and Coach, Hope, Arkansas
“The Gurian Institute’s approach teaches brain-based learning theory that recognizes gender differences in learning and combines the theory with effective strategies that bring out the best in both genders. Our implementation of the superb Gurian Institute methods proves that ALL students can achieve proficiency if teaching is directed at how they learn best.”
--Jackie Bedwell Elementary Teacher, Boulder, Colorado
“The Gurian team helped us with our children's social emotional development and social media responsibility in very practical and life-changing ways, helping us understand the NextGen. The Digital Brain was a particularly powerful talk and training.“
--Edie, Teacher and Mother
“Michael Gurian’s work in gender is at the leading edge of our profession and can significantly affect the field of psychology.”
–Tracey J. Shors, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutger’s University
“Michael Gurian provides invaluable insight into how understanding our children’s unique core natures can help us raise happy, successful, and emotionally fulfilled children.”
–Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., Former Chair, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, and founder/director of the Child Mind Institute
“We are a credit recovery program district (largest in Ohio with 1500+ students) with three traditional school models included and several specialized programs that target specific needs of students, including single gender and gender-based. At the center of all of these programs is helping credit and academic deficit students find a path to graduation. We have found the Gurian Institute’s work extremely helpful in our mission.”
–Dr. Adonica Park-Jones, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction, Dohn Community High School

The Wonder of Parenting Podcast

To subscribe to our weekly Podcast, please visit https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/wonderofparenting

Michael Gurian and Tim Wright serve as your guides through what they believe is the owner’s manual for your child: Your child’s brain. While the brain doesn’t tell the whole story, it does offer a treasure trove of insights into your son or daughter.

Helping Boys and Girls Reach Their Potential
Helping Schools Close Achievement Gaps

Serving…
Schools

Public, Private
Charter, Independent
Single-sex, Coed

School Districts
State Departments of Education
Colleges, Universities

Research-Based & Strategies-Oriented

More than 60,000 professionals

have been trained in the Institute’s programs and interventions from thousands of schools across the world with some schools becoming “GI Model Schools.”  We provide the critical training missing from most post-secondary education related to how boys and girls learn.  We have also reached more than one million parents with practical training for raising and educating boys and girls in the digital age.

Data Matters

Get ready to improve teacher effectiveness, student achievement, school safety, mental health wellness, social media responsibility, and parent involvement.  Gurian training is not an expensive new curriculum. Its holistic nature grows from its fidelity to all three fundamental areas of child development: nature, nurture, and culture. It builds understanding of boys and girls in curricular, extra-curricular, and behavioral areas.

Testimonials

“This is one of the best PDs I have had after 18 years of teaching. So much normal PD is repetitive ‘how-to’ information with new names to old ideas. This PD was fresh, new information that will be helpful and quickly instituted in the classroom. Hopefully, our whole school and parents will be able to receive this information.”
--Angela, 10th Grade Teacher
``We understand that boys and girls need different approaches as we manage classroom behavior, and when school disciplinary measures are needed, we are more effective in working through these issues because we know how to communicate differently with each gender, taking in account that each person, male and female, is also different.``
Tracie, Elementary School Principal

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Tim Wright, co-host, with Michael Gurian, of the Wonder of Parenting Podcast (www.wonderofparenting.com), is author of the popular Toby Baxter series of young adult novels. Today’s guest blog post is Part III in his series on “Use Your Words,” a fascinating study of how we use words to …

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