In my blog a few weeks ago and in The Minds of Girls I (Michael Gurian) have focused on science-based theory and practice that have proven to close gender gaps. A researcher and father of daughters, I am arguing that to fully help girls and women, we must push beyond the idea that corporate sexism and “gender stereotypes” are the primary reasons tech and certain STEM fields don’t employ …
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October 31, 2020
The Gurian Institute is excited to welcome Joseph Moody, a powerful educator and dynamic speaker, to our Winter Training Institute! The event will take place as a Tele-Summit on Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24, 2021 with the recorded sessions available for registrants until January 30. For those people who would like to become Gurian Certified Trainers, there will be an additional training session on Monday morning, January 25. This is, …
November 14, 2020
Early bird registration for our Winter Training Institute ends on December 18! The WI will take place as a Tele-Summit on Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24, 2021 with the recorded sessions available for registrants until January 30, so you do not have to attend on January 23-24 to get the training and workshops. For those people who would like to become Gurian Certified Trainers, there will be an additional training …
December 11, 2020
Join people from around the country and around the world to learn and inspire one another to make systemic change in our communities on behalf of boys. Past participants in these events have agreed that what we do for boys will also help girls and adults. We are all in this together! The Helping Boys Thrive Summits have occurred in cities all over the country in the last seven …
September 26, 2020
Six months ago, who knew that teachers and parents together would need to devise a “Covid Classroom”? We lived a different life, then. Now, the new classrooms comprise a great deal of what we are talking about as we navigate the 2020 – 2021 school year. Some schools have closed for good; some are re-opening in person; some are open for online schooling only; some are using hybrids. Some …
September 12, 2020
Our Helping Boys Thrive Tele-Summit is just around the corner. We hope you can join us. If your school or community can sign up 5 or more, there is a group discount. As you’ll see on the website, cost for this summit is quite low because of the generous donations of our sponsors. Check out www.helpingboysthrive.org to look over the tele-summit and to register. You can join us on the …
September 5, 2020
For many parents and educators, it is difficult to stay positive about online schooling. While some kids and adults take to it, its disadvantages are also overwhelming. As one school principal told us last week, “Given the issues we face with Covid spread, online schooling is simply the lesser of two evils.” Our inbox has been flooded with similar emails from school personnel and parents. In most of those communications, …
August 31, 2020
This video aired before the Covid outbreak and new BLM protests, and yet it feels, in some ways, even more relevant now. As our culture works to understand the violence that is perpetrated on our youth, we are challenged to understand bullying, trauma, and violence in their own right, and also within the confines of sexual harassment and sexual assault. As our culture understands sexual harassment and assault on …
August 20, 2020
There is a hidden factor in human safety and equity that often goes unnoticed, especially in the lives of children. As our nation surges with interest, debate, and new programs aimed at helping people of all races feel safer, whether you are male or female determines much of what will happen to you in life. This is especially true in the education sector. The Gurian Institute as a network provides …
August 16, 2020
For nearly a decade, the Gurian Institute and St. John’s Jesuit Academy and High School (SJJ) in Toledo, OH have forged a partnership in learning. Eight years ago, the Academy became a Gurian Model School. We are excited to report that the Academy has re-certified as a Model School this year, 2020, having fulfilled the designation obligations. SJJ is a premier school for boys not just in Ohio, but …
August 10, 2020
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