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 …