As you look at resources for your school, home, or community, you may be looking at online resources. Do you know about Gurian Online Courses? They can be taken individually or used for group-PD formats. Today’s blog post features our Courses. We have four PD video courses you can use for all day, half day, or shorter formats as well as individual and PLC coursework. If they look of …
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February 18, 2026
Our Summer Training Institute 2026 occurs online this June 26 – 27, 2026. We hope you can attend individually or in groups from your schools and communities. To learn more and to register, please visit: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2026/. As always, the Training is innovative, practical, strategic, and inspiring. The Trainings will be recorded, thus available for three weeks beyond the days of the Training. If the weekend does not work for …
March 6, 2026
Diane Roberts, Consulting Director of the Gurian Institute, was previously the Principal of a High School in Maryland that inculcated Gurian Institute theory and strategies and saw powerful and profound results. She has provided us with that story today. Diane will be one of the speakers featured at our GI Summer Training Institute in June. To learn more and to register, please visit https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2026/. We hope you will reach …
February 26, 2026
Jack Kammer is a social worker and author (jackkammer.com) who wrote us in connection with our January What Boys Need Conference. “I would like to suggest that we need to assure that boys see demand for their own future output. We know that the longing to give, to contribute, to provide is an essential aspect of male psychology. “But boys hear the chatter. ‘Are men even necessary?’ They need …
February 13, 2026
Now is a time when principals and school district personnel are planning professional development for the rest of this school year, for summer PD, and for the next school year. Consulting Director of the Gurian Institute, Diane Roberts, has written this week’s blog post to help your organization explore how our professional development can help your school and community. The success of our PD in schools, academies, and communities …
February 19, 2026
Blog posts and resources from The Center, A Place of Hope, are often very useful to the Gurian Community. Dr. Gregory Jantz, its founder, has spoken at our Summer Training Institutes in the past. He and Michael Gurian co-wrote Raising Boys By Design in 2009. Today’s guest blog post is from the Center. It is about understanding and treating Emotional Abuse. The post features information and articles from the …
February 9, 2026
Our Gurian Summer Training Institute will take place virtually on June 27 – 28. This will be our 28th Summer Training Institute on how boys and girls learn and grow differently, and the theory and strategies that allow for each child’s potential to be realized in classrooms and beyond. We do this event virtually so that schools and organizations can participate in small cohorts and large groups, including full …
February 2, 2026
The What Boys Need As Males Conference was last weekend. Thank you all for making it such a big success! This was, and still is, truly a global conversation. We have had more than 2,000 people worldwide register for the Conference. Countless more will watch the sessions on You Tube. Our deep thanks to all of our speakers who delivered powerful content and thus have helped us move the …
January 26, 2026
In two recent conferences on boys’ mental health, political confusion around “gender,” “masculinity,” and “social construction” took up a lot of time. At one conference, talking about the male brain was considered “boring” despite that the male brain is where male mental health resides. At another conference a speaker told the group that using the word “male” was ineffective in politics and media because advocates for women and trans …
January 9, 2026
The What Boys Need As Males Conference is this weekend on Zoom! You can learn more and register here: https://helpingboysthrive.org/what-boys-need-as-males-conference/. The Conference is free, but to participate, you need to register. We have more than two dozen great speakers at the conference with some of their sessions and interview pre-recorded. This includes speakers from all over the world who will help you help the boys in your family, school, …
January 18, 2026
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