At our Winter Institute, January 25-26, 2020, at the Lovett School, Stacia McFadden, Director of Academic Technology, will provide a workshop on tech use in school and at home. To learn more about our Winter Institute, please go to www.gurianinstitute.com. This blog sent out by Stacia to parents and community members provides a short list of guidance on this very important subject. In her workshop, Stacia will provide more depth. …
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December 20, 2019
The Gurian Winter Training Institute (WI) will be held this weekend on the beautiful campus of the Lovett School, in Atlanta, GA. To learn more and to register, please click: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2020/. We hope to see you there! This multi-day Training Institute is a great place for you not only to learn more about boys, girls, and the gender spectrum, but also to become a Gurian Certified Trainer. We hope to …
January 18, 2020
Our Winter Training Institute is set for January 24-26, 2020 at The Lovett School, in Atlanta, Georgia. Early Bird registration ends November 30! The school is a comfortable and beautiful facility for learning, networking, and changing paradigms. Its rooms and grounds are perfect for practicing new teaching and counseling strategies and renewing our shared belief in the power of education. To learn more about the Winter Training and to …
November 23, 2019
Thank you for your responses to The Stone Boys. It is my (Michael Gurian’s) first young adult novel (suitable for teens 13 and older), a story somewhat from my own boyhood, fictionalized and expanded. Some of you have sent in questions requesting more information on how this book happened. Before talking more about that, I want to extend a special offer to schools: if you do a school wide read …
November 4, 2019
From Director Eva Dwight: Early on in my work as a junior high counselor, I noticed that boys were predominantly the students I saw for either academic failure or discipline problems. I knew we weren’t meeting their learning needs, and we needed to be doing something different in classrooms, but I didn’t know WHAT, and I didn’t know WHY. Then I discovered Dr. Michael Gurian’s book Boys and Girls …
October 4, 2019
The Gurian Winter Training Institute (WI) is just around the corner. It will be held on the beautiful campus of the Lovett School, in Atlanta, GA. To learn more and to register, please click: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2020/. We hope to see you there! If you can do it, please feel free to bring teams to the WI. A number of schools from around the country are doing this, and it can …
January 10, 2020
We are very proud of our partnership with Dr. Gregory Jantz, Founder of The Center, A Place of Hope, as well as our partnership with the Center itself, located in Edmonds, WA, a suburb of Seattle. Dr. Jantz and his wife, Lafon, founded the Center more than 30 years ago to be a premier facility for mental health treatment. The Center delivers. If you go to www.aplaceofhope.com, you’ll see testimonials …
October 18, 2019
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 …
October 27, 2019
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, …
October 12, 2019
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 …
October 6, 2019
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