A special feature of this year’s Summer Training Institute is its early childhood track.   While all the keynotes cover boys and girls across the spectrum and age groups, Michael Gurian, Dr. Glynetta Fletcher, and Marion Hill will present in ways that also set up the early childhood tracks in the afternoons.  Then Marion and directors, teachers, and coaches from the GI Pilots in Head Start programs and schools in Phoenix, …

For more than 20 years, the Gurian Institute has been certifying trainers to provide professional development and consulting in schools, organizations, and communities both in the United States and abroad.  You can meet some of our trainers on https://gurianinstitute.com/trainers/.   In 2019, we announced a major new GI initiative:  “Let’ Have a Trainer in Every School!”  This initiative is about equipping every school with at least one certified trainer who can …

Do you feel like you are living in a culture at war between sex and gender?  Is that war paralyzing, or at least confusing, your efforts to develop gender equity in your school or other system?  My own answers to both questions are “Yes.”  I see a creeping weaponization of the false dichotomy between sex and gender that pits different populations against one another, and results in danger to children. There …

Our blog today is by Eva Dwight, teachers, counselor, and Program Director of the Gurian Institute.  Eva will be leading four workshops at our Summer Institute in June.   To learn more and to register for the Summer Institute, click:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2021/.   Here now follows a blog from Eva on the Boys and Girls Learn Differently Solution. Throughout my 20 years as a junior high counselor, I was continually dismayed to see …

We are proud to announce that our Summer Training Institute is all set for June 26-27, 2021!   We hope this is the last time we will need to do either our Winter or Summer Institute via zoom, and yet we have discovered advantages to this format, too.   More people from around the world can join, and the keynotes and workshops can be available for your viewing and participation the whole …

With so much schooling online this past year, our homes have naturally adjusted to our children spending five to eight or more hours a day in front of screens.  We can say this was (is) a necessity because of Covid 19, and that’s fair.  But that much screen time is bad for children’s brains. There are things we can do to mitigate potential damage, and this blog will look at …

As you plan your summer and back-to-school professional development days, we hope you will look at utilizing Gurian Institute brain-based professional development.  GI has trained tens of thousands of educators and professionals in more than 5,000 schools over the last quarter century.  Our areas of focus are academic and social emotional success in educational systems and school cultures.  Our GI training uses neuroscience linked to hundreds of practical strategies for …

There is a secret in American life (and indeed, a secret existing throughout the Developed World) that few people want to talk about–that there are few primary markers of physical, cognitive, educational, neurological, emotional, psychological, and employment health in which females in the aggregate are doing worse than males in the aggregate.   More than a decade ago, a number of us in the gender field founded a non-partisan …