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Join Us for Our Winter Training Institute!

November 20, 2020
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Posted by Michael Gurian

People are signing up from around the world and throughout the country for our Winter Training Institute!  We hope you will join them.  This even will take place as a Tele-Summit on Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24, 2021 with the recorded sessions available for registrants until January 30.  For those people who would like to become Gurian Certified Trainers, there will be an additional training session on Monday morning, January 25.  This is, thus, a seven day event for a very low price.

We are proud to offer you this service to fit most or all of your budgets and funding sources.  Even in this time of strapped budgets, professional development is still crucial, and our Training Institutes provide immense value for in-person and online teaching.  GI has just finished its very successful Helping Boys Thrive Virtual Summit ( https://helpingboysthrive.org/helping-boys-thrive-tele-summit/), with more than 150 attendees from five continents, and in June we completed our Summer Training Institute virtually, which had almost 150 attendees from around the world, as well.

Please click here to learn more about the event and to register:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2021/.  Check out our speakers and trainers on the website.  If you can sign up groups of five or more, there is a deep discount, and for 20 or more, an even deeper discount.  At our Summer Institute Tele-Summit, one school brought 29 staff and another brought 14 staff.  Systemic change sometimes happens even more quickly in a building, school, or district when groups take home with them the theory and strategies that help boys and girls learn and grow.

Whomever you can bring, we believe you and your colleagues will leave the Tele-Summit Professional Development with minds blown and toolboxes filled.  Because some schools might still be providing online schooling in January, we’ll make sure to adapt our PD and programming to fit both in person and online schooling.  Again, check out this webpage for details and registration:    https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2021/.

 

Our Keynotes at the Winter Institute

 

Dr. Michael Gurian and Renowned Educator Joseph Moody will provide our Keynotes on The Minds of Boys and Girls, Working with Boys of Color, and Trauma-Informed classrooms.  Here are some of the dozen workshops and other sessions over the two days:

Helping Boys and Girls in Poverty Thrive Through Virtual Learning, with Dr. Tremaine Canteen, Principal of the Virtual Academy in the Cumberland County School District, and a Gurian Certified Trainer. The needs of children raised in poverty are profound and sometimes not served in traditional settings.  Virtual academies, however, are showing great promise for leveling playing and learning fields.  This session will give participants a toolbox full of practical strategies that grow from ensuring the needs of both boys and girls in virtual academy settings.  Dr. Tremaine Canteen is the Principal of The Cumberland Virtual Academy in the Cumberland County School District in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with over 16 years of experience in education.  Dr. Canteen was selected to serve as the Teacher of the Year in 2007 and 2012. In 2017, she served as Cumberland County Schools’ Assistant Principal of the Year. Dr. Canteen believes that education is still the great equalizer, and virtual education is an important choice.

The Human Brain:  Setting the Stage, with Eva Dwight, M.Ed, and Dr. Michael Gurian. Body, mind, and soul are not three isolated systems.  Intricately woven together, they give us the human experience.  In our culture now, our children’s bodies, minds, and souls are experiencing significant stress.  This opening session of the conference will link our weekend of training to the deep issues of our time in schools and neighborhoods, and provide a primer on the amazing human brain–both its natural resilience and its potential fragility.

Boys and Girls Learn Differently – Two-Part Strategies Session, with Eva Dwight, M.Ed., Gurian Institute Program Director.  This two-part session will give participants a tool box full of practical strategies that can be adapted for use in any classroom to increase teacher effectiveness and make sure the needs of both boys and girls are being met. The workshops will model the strategies for both online and in-person classroom delivery.  This two-part session is a requirement for applicants for Gurian Institute Trainer Certification and includes specific innovations for coeducational classrooms and for single sex classrooms and academies.

Self-Care for Teachers and Parents During Crisis and Trauma, including Strategies to Use with Children, with Eva Dwight, M.Ed.  Brain science can give us profound and practical insight into how to help ourselves as adults with self-care, which is absolutely essential during times of crisis and  trauma.  The same science holds powerful clues and provides best practices for setting kids up for success in both learning and social-emotional development during times of crisis.  In this workshop, Gurian Master Trainer and Program Director Eva Dwight brings more than three decades of school- and parent-coaching experience to a solution-oriented hour of best practices.

The Digital Girl:  What Teachers and Parents Need to Know about Tech Use in Girls’ Development, with Eva Dwight, M.Ed. This workshop will focus on how to help schools, teachers, tweens, and teen girls use tech most effectively and safely.  Overuse of social media and tech is a national problem, yet, tech is here to stay, especially in the Covid era.  Limiting screen time–which is necessary and important–is not the whole story.  Especially with the stress our girls are under constantly today, this workshop focuses on tech use as a positive and negative stressor.  Eva Dwight provides tools, strategies, and real-time conversations to have with girls as parents and teachers help them navigate their digital world.

Engaging, Motivating, and Managing Boys and Girls in the Standards-Driven Classroom, Dr. Lakeva S. Barnes, Gurian Master Trainer and Gifted Differentiation Coach at Sycamore Elementary School in Collierville, TN. With the multitude of demands placed on teachers to manage large class sizes, plan standard-aligned instruction, and improve student growth-measures, many teachers are burning out–they are just finding it too difficult to balance their work load. This session will address best practices for how to engage, motivate, and manage boys and girls through novelty, a token economy, and August to May routines.  These practices and this session help teachers reduce inappropriate classroom behaviors and maximize instructional time while improving student achievement.  Dr. Barnes will share her real-world situations and solutions that have impacted students’ motivation and the teacher’s, including her own, ability to manage some of the worst student behaviors.

Communicating with Parents of Boys about their Behavior, Discipline, & Achievement, Dr. Lakeva S. Barnes.  Communicating with parents about boys’ behavior, discipline, and achievement can be difficult for educators and parents. Parents can get defensive when called to meet with school officials because many times it is not their first experience with hearing about issues their child(ren) may be having in school. Sometimes educators are anxious about the thought of communicating their concerns about male students because of past experiences with challenging parents. This session will provide educators with tools for conducting positive and effective parent-teacher conferences and meetings regarding the behavior, discipline, and achievement of male students. Dr. Barnes will share real experiences and methods used to conduct positive and effective meetings with difficult parents.

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.

Best Practices for Working with Learning-Different Students, with Josh Nordean, M.S., Clinical Director, and Shirleen Lombard, Educational Director, The Forge School for Boys, and Gurian Certified Trainers.   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 with developmental trauma, and boys diagnosed as behavioral challenges in mainstream schools.  Josh, Shirleen, and the Forge school utilize a holistic model that they 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). 

 

What Previous Winter and Summer Institute Participants Have Said

“The sessions were diverse and the presenters kept us focused not only on scientific theory but especially on Strategies! This was so important, so powerful for me.”
“I think of myself as ‘zoomed out’ these days, but Michael Gurian, Eva Dwight, and the whole GI team really know how to translate the material to the online format. The Tele-Summit worked very well.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed these two days and learned so much about how to help my students, especially my girls in the areas of girl drama and STEM and my boys in areas of social-emotional development and motivation to learn.”

“Boys are a particular challenge in my classrooms, and this weekend training was right on point. This is one of the best professional development experiences I have ever had.”

“I am becoming a Gurian Certified Trainer so that I can keep bringing this information to my school and our parent body. This weekend prepared me very well to keep the work going!”

“Michael Gurian’s keynote and lunch sessions were profound. I am so appreciative of what he and the whole Gurian Institute are doing in communities and schools.”

“I came as a parent first and mental health counselor second, but I ended up learning a lot in both categories. I now believe this Gurian theory and strategies can change our counseling systems for the better, and I have a lot to take home with me.”

“The Gurian Institute has focused on issues surrounding children of color and children raised in poverty for a long time, and its work in this area is even more necessary now. The brain science approach of the speakers was unique and powerful.”

“This is one of the best trainings I have had with more usable strategies than I usually get at PD. Thank you!”

“This is equity work at its finest. You did not avoid the big questions. I appreciate your honesty about the many parts of equity and excellence we have to hit at once if we are going to creating thriving schools and communities.”

“The Gurian Institute consistently provides some of the best professional development I experience, and I have been teaching more than 25 years!”

“This is the best workshop I’ve been to in the last ten years! I wish it could have been longer.”

“In thirty two years as a teacher and coach, I have rarely gone to PD that did not bore me at some point. This Gurian work is not boring. I am very glad I came.”

We hope to see you virtually in January!  Click here to learn more and to register:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2021/.

November 20, 2020

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