For more than two decades, the Gurian Institute has been communicating with you the ideas and intentions of a social movement committed to using gender neuroscience and educational psychology as a bedrock for social and systemic change.   GI helps children, families, schools, and communities thrive.   In books, articles, blogs, studies, and posts, I (Michael Gurian) have done most of the writing that we publish, though I am often joined by …

Our deepest thanks to everyone who attended and helped organize our Summer Training Institute!  It took place online June 26-27, 2021 and is still going on, involving more than 300 participants who attended and are still attending via extended-time zoom videos. As the screen shot shows, there is excitement, inspiration, networking, and a love of learning, teaching, and mentoring that pervades this virtual event.   On https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2021/, you can see the …

Dr. Michael Gurian, Dr. Glynetta Fletcher, and Marion Hill will provide four powerful and leading edge keynotes for the Summer Training Institute.  Dr. Gurian will speak on The Minds of Boys and Girls and Trauma, Poverty, and the Brain.  Dr. Fletcher will speak on The Equity Solution and Marion Hill on The Paternal Nurturance Asset. While our virtual event will transpire mainly live via zoom over the June 26 – …

If you haven’t looked recently at our Products page, we hope you will click https://gurianinstitute.com/products/ and look at the products we offer.  One of those is our 4 plus hour Online Course featuring Michael Gurian.  You can get more specifics about this course at https://gurianinstitute.com/products/boys-and-girls-learn-differently-online-course/. The course can be used by whole school teams on Professional Development days.  A school superintendent who used it with his staff called it “a …

Our Summer Training Institute is just around the corner.  In our blog today, we are featuring a number of workshops by our Certified and Master Trainers.   You will find workshops on working with high school age boys, learning different and anxious students, students of poverty via virtual learning, successful executive function development, and empowering students in single sex classrooms and environments. Please join us for our Summer Institute June 26 …

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 …