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It is January and that means early bird registration is open for our 2019 Summer Training Institute! We have even more speakers this year, and we will all be together at Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, CA (ANA) for learning, networking and lots of fun, too. ANA is located on the beach, and hotel accommodations are right near the water so, if you want to mix vacation with work, …
The new year is here, and we are all starting to live out our resolutions! This is such a great time to be alive, to be forward thinking, and to focus our personal energy toward the good. To that end: I hope you will consider adding a resolution to your list about avoiding environmental neurotoxins this and every year. Part of my inspiration for saying this comes from the joy …
In my blog a few weeks ago and in The Minds of Girls I have tried to focus on science-based theory and practice that have proven to close gender gaps. I am arguing that to fully help our daughters, we must push beyond the idea that corporate sexism and “gender stereotypes” are the primary reasons tech and certain STEM fields don’t employ as many women as men. If we do …
On October 10, I spoke at the Dawson School in Boulder, Colorado, and a reporter was kind enough to write a story about the lecture and professional development. This week’s blog post features her article, a cogent grass roots example of brain-based thinking that is being supported in a community. We live in a time when, as we’ve noted before in this blog, a part of our culture wants to …
If you haven’t looked recently at our Products page, we hope you will click https://gurianinstitute.com/products/ and look at the products we offer. One of those is our 4 plus hour Online Course featuring Michael Gurian. You can get more specifics about this course at https://gurianinstitute.com/products/boys-and-girls-learn-differently-online-course/. The course can be used by whole school teams on Professional Development days. A school superintendent who used it with his staff called it “a …
This has been an amazing year at the Gurian Institute and YOU are the reason why. Each of you has in some way used or heard about our services in your part of the world, and we deeply appreciate you. Please feel free, always, to reach out to us on www.gurianinstitute.com. Let us know how we can serve you better.Next year, we will launch new books and podcasts, new speeches …
I want to join my colleague, Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D., whose blog I am featuring in a moment, in warning parents and schools against extreme positions in the transgender debate, especially regarding young children. The new Pediatrics recommendations can be found here: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/142/4/e20182162. A subcommittee of the American Association of Pediatrics is recommending that if a child says s/he is transgender, no matter their age, they should be treated as …
The holidays are coming, and I’m hoping you will give the gift of reading to both young adults and adults in your family. If you are looking for nonfiction, I hope you’ll look at giving Saving Our Sons (2017) and The Minds of Girls (2018) and any of the other Gurian Institute titles that fit your family’s and school’s needs. If you or someone you know is a fiction reader, …
If you know someone who loves young adult novels, I hope you will recommend to them that they read the newest young adult novel by Printz Honor Winner, Terry Trueman. This action-packed and enlightening book just received a very positive review from School Library Journal. It’s a really good read. The relationship between the boy—the protagonist in the novel—and both his father and mentor are quite touching. If you are …
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