I begin this fourth essay in our Resilience series with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words from Self-Reliance. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.  Accept the place that divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events…we must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny, not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, …

This week we feature a guest blog by Sean Kullman, Director of the Global Initiative for Boys and Men, that analyzes the work the Gurian Institute has been doing in schools and communities over the last 25 years.  Thank you, Sean, for this analysis! In his blog post, Sean mentions our Summer Institute next week.  To learn more and to register, please click:  https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2022/.  Now, here is Sean’s blog post. …

Tim Wright is a bridge builder between secular and faith communities, and a powerful teacher who will speak at our Summer Institute in June.   Today’s newsletter features a guest blog from Tim. To learn more about our Summer Institute and to register, please visit the Event page on www.gurianinstitute.com.  You can register as an individual on the website or send groups to the event by emailing gail@gurianinstitute.com. From Michael Gurian:  …

  We hope you will join us for our Summer Institute. The boy crisis–and thus a national safety crisis–will get discussed at this Zoom Training event as we all work together to protect our children–and to understand why they do what they do. Because I have been interviewed a great deal over the last two weeks about the shootings, I have been working to give a realistic picture of what …

For 25 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 2018, we announced a major new GI initiative:  “A Trainer in Every School!” to equip every school with at least one certified trainer who can train faculty, staff, and parents in brain-based …

Our guest blog this week comes from Eva Dwight, Gurian Institute Program Director.   A teacher and counselor, Eva spearheads our Head Start Pilots in Phoenix and travels the country providing training for K-12 schools.  She is also a Positive Discipline Certified Trainer. Eva will speak on these topics at the Gurian Summer Training Institute in the last week of June.  She also leads our Trainer Certification program, which transpires on …

As Christians celebrate Easter, Muslims fast for Ramadan, and much of the world moves into Spring, Jewish people memorialize the Holocaust on “Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah”, the Day of the Remembrance.  HaShoah falls on the 27th of the month of Nisan on the Jewish calendar (April 28), a week after the Passover holiday that celebrates the Jewish exodus from slavery. For this confluence of holidays and season, we are publishing Michael …