We appreciate your business and your belief in our Professional Development.  In the face of lost school time, postponed PD days, budget issues, and general uncertainty during the Covid crisis, the Gurian Institute has adapted its programming to meet your needs.  All our programs generally fit with federal, state, municipal and other funding sources.   Here is a menu of four dynamic options. 1.  Virtual professional development 2.  Online courses …

The title metaphor of Michael Gurian’s new book, The Stone Boys, represents boys who must become as hard as stone to survive. Traumatized boys and men are especially prone to becoming hardened for many reasons, some neuro-biological and some psycho-sociological.  Traumatized girls and women can become hardened, too, but after trauma, they often engage and disengage with life and learning in somewhat different ways than boys. Dr. Glynetta “Fletch” …

Tim Wright organizes a number of our Gurian Institute Helping Boys Thrive Summits and presents workshops worldwide on gender issues.  He will provide a workshop at our Virtual Summer Training Institute (June 27 – July 1) titled Dynamic Rites of Passage for Boys and Girls:  How to Develop and Use Strategies, Models, and Successful Programs in Your School or Community.   Tim focuses on the boy part of this equation in …

My father, Dr. Jay P. Gurian, a retired American Studies professor and Cultural officer for the State Department, just turned 91.  Locked into an assisted living facility under the shadow of Covid, suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) and two other lung conditions, he is one of the people most vulnerable to Covid related illness and death. As our country shut its economy down early in March, he said, …

“What is one life worth?”  We have heard this question asked in relation to locking down our nation and world to save our vulnerable elders during the Covid-19 crisis.  In the wake of George Floyd’s death and so many others like it, mustn’t the same question, “What is one life worth?” be asked with as much voice and heart for boys and men of color?  What is their value to …

Some of you have written and called about rumors that school may not start this Fall, at least not in some brick-and-mortar locations, but instead may transpire online, as it did this spring.  Others have written that Summer and Back-to-School PD will need to transpire online and virtually, as well.  If this happens in your school or district, please let us know.  We provide PD via Zoom, webinar, and other …