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 …

What is “reality”?  It is lived phenomena empirically processed by the brain’s intimate embrace of lived experience.  What is “shared reality”?  It is the collective embrace of empirical experience and data through the lens of common sense. In Parts I and II of this blog, I used neurobiology and citizen science to help you look at how media/social media bombard and often traumatize adult and children’s brains.  If you have …

As an expert in child development, I have been vocal for years about my concerns regarding the role of media and social media in adult’s and children’s lives—especially the potentially detrimental effects on all our brains.   Please go to www.gurianinstitute.com to read Part I of the series.  Part III will be published soon. Because Part II continues where Part I left off, I hope you will read Part I before …

Six seemingly disparate elements stimulate this analysis:  the assault on Congress at the beginning of January and its connection to election results and an election-fraud movement; the murder of George Floyd last year and the concomitant defund the police movement; the pandemic responses nationwide over the last year that have resulted in school shutdowns; media and social media coverage of gender and sex issues; the Queen’s Gambit series about a …