At our Winter Training Institute, educators and innovators Marion Hill, Josh Nordean, Shirleen Lombard, Joseph Moody, and Amy Coe will provide powerful workshops on crucial topics for educating and raising boys and girls.  Have you registered yet for our Winter Tele-Summit?  To learn more and to register, please click:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2021/.

In these difficult times, doesn’t it feel supportive and inspiring to come to a place of stability and cohesion in which to learn and grow?  We have provided Training Institute’s like this one for more than 20 years.  It is an honor for all of us at the Gurian Institute to provide an event again, this time as a Tele-Summit.   Here is more about four of our powerful workshops and five workshop presenters.  Please join us!

Inspiring Communities to Invigorate Healthy Fathering with Marion Hill, Program Coordinator, City of Phoenix Birth to Five Program, Gurian Certified Trainer, and Founder of the Greater Phoenix Urban League M.A.N.C.A.V.E. Fatherhood Program.  A youth football coach, mentor, and child advocate, Marion Hill has worked on issues of fatherhood and male involvement throughout his professional life.  He currently serves as an administrator for Head Start and 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), an innovative program designed to encourage fathers and male role models to actively engage in children’s growth and development.  As he tells his own powerful story, Marion will utilize anecdotes from his two decades of work in this field, provide success strategies for helping boys and girls in under-resourced neighborhoods, and reveal innovations for engaging fathers deeply in children’s lives.

Best Practices for Working with Learning-Different Students, with Shirleen Lombard, M.S., Educational Director of the Forge School and a Gurian Certified Trainer, and Josh Nordean, M.S., Clinical Director of The Forge School and a Gurian Certified Trainer.   The Forge School for Boys is a therapeutic boarding school and Gurian Institute Model School that specializes in working with learning different boys and boys who present with behavioral issues.  The Forge School works with boys on the ASD spectrum, boys with ADD/ADHD, boys with sensory integration difficulties, boys in trauma, and boys diagnosed as behavioral challenges in mainstream schools.  Josh and the Forge school utilize a holistic model that he will share in this workshop, one that is brain-based and uses boy-focused strategies.  Be prepared to explore exciting ways to get challenging and “difficult” boys in sync with the mission and values of your classroom and community.

The Power of Single Sex Classrooms and Cultures, with Amy Coe, M.A., Assistant Dean of Academics, Army and Navy Academy, and Gurian Certified Trainer.  This workshop is designed for teachers, administrators, counselors, and all those interested in developing a deeper understanding of what works in single sex school cultures, and why.  The workshop is divided into three sections: useful brain-based sex differences based on Michael Gurian’s work; practical classroom strategies for teacher and student mentoring of boys and girls; and strategies to nurture the nature of boys and girls in single sex school “emotional” cultures (the hidden worlds of both boys and girls).

Why Did You Do That? I…Uh…Don’t Know! with Joseph Moody, M.A., Assistant Head of Middle School for Student Life at the Lovett School, Atlanta, GA.  Students must deal with discipline, student communities, peer groups, and personal relationships with teachers, while simultaneously coping with the physical and emotional changes they experience during puberty and adolescence.  Their lives are in turmoil, and they need our help understanding who they are and what they are doing.  In this workshop, Joseph will outline evidence-based strategies that improve the student-teacher-administrative relationship from a brain-based perspective.  He will further explore factors that impact behavior, and ways to both set measurable goals for students and help them become leaders in school culture, even through distress.  Joseph will also provide strategies you can use to increase your visibility in the twin roles of advocate and disciplinarian.

Please join us at https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2021/.  The registration link for individuals is at the bottom of the page.  If you would like to send a group of five or more, please contact gail@gurianinstitute.com.  Thank you.