We, our students, and our children are stressed out! You’ve heard about it and read about it nearly every day in the media and you’ve likely felt it in your own life. Some of this stress is “good stress,” good for self-challenge, emotional maturity, and performance success. Good stress is a balancing act inside our bodies and brains. Some stress is dangerous. This stress comes from many assaults—digital, nutritional, interpersonal, …
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March 22, 2019
“Gender Indifference” is a term I use to talk about the call by some people, most of them not primary scientists in the field, to deny male/female brain difference. These folks travel the country speaking about gender neuroscience without showing brain scans of males and females across the gender spectrum doing the same task. They avoid showing these scans because to show them would mean their case falls apart. …
March 14, 2019
For seventeen years, we have come together at the Gurian Summer Training Institute (SI). Each year is an amazing experience of learning and strategy. At https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2019/ you’ll see participant analysis of last year’s SI. Spending a weekend together blending neuro-science with evidence- and research-based practical strategies becomes a source of systemic growth in schools and organizations, and personal growth in relationships with students and children. To fully understand academic and …
March 1, 2019
Eva Dwight, M.Ed., one of our featured speakers at this year’s Gurian Summer Training Institute, wrote this informative and practical blog featuring a key subject in children’s lives. We hope you find her wisdom useful. To learn more about our event or to register, please visit https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2019/ . From Eva: As a junior high counselor for 20 years, I frequently rolled my eyes at the ridiculousness of what we adults casually term …
February 21, 2019
The Gurian Institute and the National Center for the Development of Boys have begun their third year of partnership. We want to celebrate that milestone by calling your attention to the powerful work of this organization. The Center is a research and resource non-profit organization that helps educators, counselors, parents, and others who work with boys to understand more deeply the ways in which boys develop, learn, and grow, as …
February 15, 2019
If you have not yet utilized the work of our friend and colleague, Tim Wright, we hope you will. Tim and his staff, and Michael Gurian and our GI staff, have partnered for the last ten years in three primary ways, all of which were inspired by Tim’s request of Michael that what the Gurian Institute was doing in the secular world might be added, also, to faith-communities. Together we …
February 8, 2019
Gail and I have two daughters, Gabrielle and Davita. They are 28 and 25 now, but when we were raising them, few things worried us more than their digital health. The digital world they—and we—lived in was a barrage, overwhelming—before we knew it, our children were spending many hours a day staring into screens. As we worked to help our daughters take control of their digital health, they would say, …
February 1, 2019
For more than 20 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/. As our certification program has grown, we’ve been looking for inexpensive ways to make it available to more schools. Because of our new Online Certification options–which allow potential trainers to be …
January 25, 2019
Something has happened to our academic culture–the culture that teaches educators how to teach, therapists how to counsel, and parents how to parent–and it is both very satisfying and somewhat frightening. Satisfying is that our academic culture is waking up to the fact that boys and men in America need our love and support. Child advocates like myself who are parents of daughters have been saying for years, “We can’t …
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