Our Summer Training Institute is all set for June 21-23 at Army and Navy Academy, in Carlsbad, California, just north of San Diego.  Early Bird registration ends April 15!   Because the Academy is nestled right on the beach, the Summer Training Institute is a great event not just for learning but for relaxation and personal renewal.

To learn more about the Summer Training and to register, click:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2019/.   You will receive 14 hours of professional development targeted to educators, counselors, administrators, parents, and mentors.  All participants completing the training will receive a Certificate for the 14 hours.

Our dual focus this year is both academic and social-emotional success, with 2 dynamic keynote speakers, Dr. Michael Gurian and Dr. Glynetta Deshon Fletcher, 12 strategies-oriented workshop options, and 2 working lunches for those interested in group discussions of crucial contemporary issues in the development of boys and girls.  By using the gender lens, the Gurian Institute helps you to delve deeply into theory and strategies that have been proven effective in hundreds of schools and communities over the last 20 years.

Our Summer Institute Learning and Training Objectives should fit well with your professional development needs and funding:

· Describe how the field of neuroscience is altering what you know about the psychology and education of children and adolescents.

· Discuss specific needs and issues of boys and girls from birth to adulthood, including analysis of the gender spectrum.

· Assess how institutionalized educational, counseling, and parenting models do or do not fill the specific developmental needs of girls and boys.

· Identify new logic models and strategies for motivation, learning, and behavioral intervention.

· Summarize key stressors and social-emotional factors that differ between girls and boys across the spectrum.

· Demonstrate new strategies for learning, counseling, and assessment, including strategies for working with highly sensitive girls and boys.

· Implement new strategies and practical tools beyond the Summer Institute, in your own curricular areas and environments.

Gurian Institute Success Data

Data and evidence from the last twenty years shows specific areas of quantitative and qualitative success at schools that implement our GI brain-based instruction (https://gurianinstitute.com/success/).  The Minds of Boys and Girls strategies and programs generally result in:

· Improved teacher effectiveness

· Achievement gaps closing, especially in literacy, math, and science

· Gender gaps closing across the curriculum

· Significant decrease in discipline referrals

· Significantly improved student behavior – as teachers deploy the GI strategies, students change the way they operate in the classroom.

Certifying an In-House Trainer for Your School

We hope you will consider bringing a team and certifying one or more of your team as Gurian Certified Trainers.  This Trainer Certification will allow for ongoing professional development and support to teachers, counselors, and parents at your school or in your organization.   More about our Certified Trainers is here:  https://gurianinstitute.com/trainers/.   Trainers can be certified by attending the Summer Institute and staying for an additional morning (Monday, June 24^th).  On the Trainer webpage, you’ll also see an online opportunity to certify, if that’s more convenient.

If our team can answer questions you might have about the Summer Institute or about ongoing support and professional development for your staff or community, please email us at eva@gurianinsitute.com.   We are here to be of service to you as we work together on behalf of children.

To learn more about the Summer Training Institute and to register, click https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2019/.