Our Summer Virtual Training Institute starts this Saturday. We hope you’ll register now to experience three ground-breaking keynotes, a dozen user-friendly workshops, and your questions answered throughout the summit. To learn more about the Summer Institute 2020 Tele-Summit and to register, please click https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2020/.
If you register 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 on the website about the extra Trainer session on Monday morning. To learn more about GI Trainers, click https://gurianinstitute.com/trainer-certification/. Here’s more about the Tele-Summit!
Keynote Presenters at the Tele-Summit
Dr. Michael Gurian will present a Saturday morning keynote on the minds of boys and girls that emphasizes crucial areas of sex and gender differences in education, counseling, parenting, and policy-making that can help adults nurture all children.
Dr. Glynetta Deshon Fletcher, Principal of Hawkins High School in the LA Unified School District, and a Gurian Master Trainer, will present a keynote on trauma-informed education and learning from both a research-based and personal perspective.
Marion Hill, a director of Head Start in Phoenix and Gurian Certified Trainer, 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.
Special Feature: Marion Hill’s Keynote, The Culture We Make: Working Effectively with Children of Color in the Classroom and in Their World.
In today’s blog, our special feature is Marion Hill’s Sunday morning keynote. A youth football coach, mentor, and child advocate, Marion Hill has worked with children of color throughout his professional life. He currently serves as an administrator for Head Start and serves as a Gurian Certified Trainer with the Greater Phoenix Urban League. Dynamic, visionary, and deeply committed to giving back, Marion is the founder of M.A.N.C.A.V.E. (Men All Need to be Caring Actively-Engaged, and Encouraged), a fatherhood program designed to encourage fathers/male role models to be actively engaged in their child’s growth and development.
In his morning keynote, Marion Hill focuses specifically on the learning and life-needs of children of color. Marion will explore current issues of culture and conflict, including ways that boys of color escalate anger and withdrawal. As he tells his own powerful story, Marion will utilize anecdotes from his two decades of work in this field, and feature success strategies for helping boys and girls of color in under-resourced neighborhoods and classrooms.
Marion will also provide a breakout session called: Changing the Classroom and Playground Culture for Our Youngest Kids. Because brain science holds powerful clues and best practices for setting children up for success in both learning and social-emotional development from birth onward, Marion presents this breakout which focuses on best practices and strategies for birth to five, and beyond. The Gurian Institute, Phoenix Head Start, and the Greater Phoenix Urban League are collaborating on a Gurian Institute Pilot at Cartwright School in Phoenix. Marion is one of the directors of the Pilot. Marion will explore differences between what boys and girls often need, and strategies and tools for making classrooms and playgrounds into positively managed learning cultures.
To learn more about Marion, please visit Marion’s Gurian Institute Trainer page.
Other Breakout Presenters at the Tele-Summit
Eva Dwight, our GI conference director and Gurian Master Trainer, 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 and Gurian Certified Trainer, connects 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 and are Gurian Certified Trainers. 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 online this weekend!
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