Our Summer Training Institute is set for the weekend of June 12-14, 2020 at beautiful Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California.  Army and Navy Academy (www.armyandnavyacademy.org) is a Gurian Model School and sits right on the beach.  We are honored that the school has hosted us now for six years, and we thank everyone there for their wonderful job supporting visitors and guests.

To learn more about the Summer Institute 2020, please click https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2020/.   On that site you’ll learn about our speakers, the location, logistics–and you can register.   If you can bring groups of five or more, there is a discount, with information about that on the website, as well.   If you want to become a Gurian Certified Trainer, you’ll see information about the extra Trainer session on Monday morning.  To learn more about GI Trainers, click https://gurianinstitute.com/trainer-certification/.

Here is an introduction to our Breakout Presenters.  Over the next few months, we’ll feature all our speakers and their topics further for you.

Breakout Presenters at the Gurian Summer Training Institute

Marion Hill, a director of Head Start in Phoenix, will provide both a Sunday Morning Keynote on working with children of color, and a breakout session on strategies for working in early childhood education and through the MANCAVE Fathering program he has developed in Phoenix.

Eva Dwight, our GI conference and program director, is also Positive Discipline Coach and 30 year veteran of both teaching and school counseling.  She will present our two Boys and Girls Learn Differently Strategies Sessions, and another session on Soothing the Stress Response in Girls.

Rob Kodama, a Gurian Master Trainer, is the Director of Admissions at Crespi Carmelite High School.   He has developed a very successful Becoming a Man program at Crespi.  This program provides a focus for both SEL and character development in boys.  Rob will help you build this kind of work in your school and community.

Theresa Moore, an administrator and counselor at San Antonio Academy, has worked in counseling and education for almost thirty years.  A Gurian Certified trainer and mental health professional, she will bring insights and strategies in areas of high-pressure and stress on children today, and on working with sensitive boys and girls.

Abigail Wald, a Gurian Certified Trainer in Southern California, will present workshops on Digital Lives of both boys and girls, and how to build intrinsic motivation in children for learning and growth.  To hear Abigail on air, check out her popular podcast before the Summer Institute.

Tim Wright, a Gurian Certified Trainer and Pastor at Community of Grace Church, has partnered with Michael Gurian for 15 years to build secular and faith-based rites of passage programs for  boys and girls.  He will delve deeply into this very crucial part of adolescent development.

Amy Coe, the Assistant Dean of Academics at Army and Navy Academy, has the ability to connect her work with the Gurian Institute and her experience working with single sex and single gender environments. A veteran of this work, she will provide strategies and structures for maximizing single gender options in your worlds.

Shandeen Gomez and Marlene Ordaz work in the Cartwright School and Head Start.  Cartwright School is the host site of the Gurian Institute Pilot Program for early childhood learning in Phoenix.  Shandeen and Marlene will focus their workshop on strategies for working with ELL learners, not just in early childhood but over the lifespan.

We hope you will check out much more about our presenters at https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2020/.  You can register for the Summer Institute on that site, as well.  See you in Carlsbad!