In these pages you’ve learned about our newest Gurian Center for Excellence at Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, CA.  We are proud to feature three Gurian Certified Trainers from that Center at our Summer Training Institute this year.  This blog post features Dr. Alan Swaney, Rob Kodama, and Daniel Parlato and their workshops.

To hear them and many others, click this website for registration:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2023/.  You can bring groups of five or more by emailing Gail at info@gurianinstitute.com.  If you would like to become a Gurian Certified Trainer, write us at info@gurianinstitute.com.  To learn more about becoming a Trainer, check out the Trainer page on www.gurianinstitute.com.  Now here’s more about our Crespi speakers.

Alan, Rob, and Daniel will provide two workshops packed with leading edge thinking and practical strategies.  To learn more about the Center for Excellence at Crespi, check out the Success page of www.gurianinstitute.com.  To learn more about Crespi, go to www.crespi.org or email Rob at rkodama@crespi.org.   Here are the two Crespi workshops.

Becoming a Man:  What Does it Mean to Boys, and How Do We Teach it? with Crespi Carmelite High School Staff Members and Gurian Certified Trainers, Dr. Alan Swaney and Rob Kodama.  For more than 40 years collectively, Alan and Rob have worked as teachers, coaches, and administrators at Crespi Carmelite High School in Los Angeles, CA, a Gurian Model School and Center For Excellence.  These two educators have also developed a leading edge “Becoming a Man” course.  In this workshop, Rob and Alan will explore the experience of masculinity and manhood in boys’ lives today, and how adults can help boys live wisely, empathically, and successfully.  Because they have taught the course to a widely diverse group of boys from all races and socio-economic origins, Alan and Rob have developed both culturally sensitive and universally applicable wisdom on masculine and male development.  This inspiring and heartfelt workshop will include strategies, structures, and plans you can use with the boys in your school and family.

Single Sex/Single Gender:  Teaching and Empowering Boys and Girls in Single Gender Classrooms and Cultures, with Rob Kodama and Daniel Parlato, Crespi Carmelite High School staff members and Gurian Certified Trainers.  This workshop is designed for teachers, administrators, counselors, and all those interested in developing a deeper understanding of single gender environments.  It features how Gurian’s work and strategies are integrated into single sex classrooms, how to set up the classrooms physically, how to facilitate student mentoring of boys and girls, and strategies for nurturing boys and girls through the sex-specific  lens.  Crespi Carmelite High School, an all boys high school in Los Angeles, CA is a Gurian Institute Model School and Center for Excellence.  Between them, Rob (Director of Admissions) and Daniel (English Teacher and Mentor) have forty years of experience in working in single sex/single gender environments.

To hear these powerful speakers, register here:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2023/.  Bring groups of five or more by emailing Gail at info@gurianinstitute.com.  If you would like to become a Gurian Certified Trainer, write us at info@gurianinstitute.com.  To learn more about becoming a Trainer, check out the Trainer page on www.gurianinstitute.com.  If you or your team are not free on the weekend to attend the virtual event live, you can still register and see all the recordings over a three week period.

We hope you’ll join us!