National speaker and renowned educator Troy Kemp will be our Sunday keynoter at our Winter Institute. Troy is executive director of the National Center for the Development of Boys and the Director of Admissions at the Ron Clark Academy. About Troy’s talks and teaching, Michael Gurian has said, “Troy Kemp is one of the most dynamic speakers I have ever heard. His practical steps for helping all students, and especially …

We will be holding our Winter Training Institute in the Southeast again!  For the last two years we’ve received phone calls, emails, and personal requests from many of you that we provide a Winter Training Institute like the one we provided in Tampa, Florida for four years, and like our Summer Institute in June in California.   Thank you for requesting it, and thank you to The Lovett School, in Atlanta, …

From Michael Gurian:  If I am known at all, it is probably for The Wonder of Boys, The Wonder of Girls, or another nonfiction work in the fields of education or psychology. If you have read any of this work in applied neuroscience and psychology—or even my less known novels and poetry–you will know of my hopefulness about human nature, but also my vigilance against its dark side. I started …

We hope you enjoy this blog by Eva Dwight, Gurian Winter Training Institute Coordinator, classroom teacher and school counselor for more than 20 years, and one of the featured speakers at the Gurian Winter Training Institute, January 25-26, 2020 at Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia.  Her workshop on taking classroom management to the next level with the brain in mind will be very powerful.  Here’s more from Eva. The toughest …

Before we get into this week’s blog, the Gurian Institute wants to announce that the Early Bird registration deadline for our Winter Training Institute at The Lovett School in Atlanta, GA has been extended to December 6, 2019.  Because December 1, the previous deadline, fell at the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, we have had potential attendees request an early bird deadline extension.  Thank you for asking, and we are …

The title of this blog post is determinedly incendiary, implying that we parents, teachers, and citizens might not have the power to do something elemental:  protect our children.  Do we have the power?  Do we collectively and individually assert the power to change what is happening with our girls? I ask because people come up to me at conferences or write in emails some version of:  “I want to curtail …

Our colleague, Dr. Jed Diamond, wrote a powerful blog post recently that begins:  “It’s good we recognize that not all humans are either XX or XY, but we shouldn’t forget that the exceptions are few. According to the World Health Organization, humans are born with 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. The X and Y chromosomes determine a person’s sex. Most women are 46XX and most men are 46XY. “Research suggests …