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 …
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October 6, 2019
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 …
September 15, 2019
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 …
November 30, 2019
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 …
September 13, 2019
Buy now! on Amazon (Michael Gurian) convincingly illustrates…the peculiar pain and potential loneliness of being a boy in America today. —Time Magazine The Gurian Institute is proud to announce the publication of The Stone Boys by Michael Gurian, New York Times bestselling author of The Wonder of Boys. We hope you will use it in your classrooms and homes as a way of engaging both boys and girls in …
September 26, 2019
This month, mass shootings took dozens of lives in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. Last month, months before, last year, and for more than two decades, American mass shootings–perpetrated by, mainly, young to middle life males–have shocked us. Everyone has a theory as to why these go on. Politicians weigh in constantly, giving different viewpoints. Mental health professionals like myself have weighed in, especially since the late 1990s when …
August 15, 2019
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 …
August 22, 2019
Early bird registration is open for our January 2020 Winter Training Institute! We will all be together at Lovett Middle School, a Gurian Model School, in Atlanta, Georgia for learning, networking and lots of fun, too. A fully tech-modern facility, Lovett also has beautiful grounds on which to relax and process, and it is only about a half hour away from the Atlanta airport. Our deep thanks to Principal Debbie …
September 6, 2019
Our Winter Training Institute will be held at Lovett Middle School on January 24-26, 2020, with the extra Monday morning session for Trainer Certification on January 27, 2020. Lovett Middle School, a Gurian Model School, provides not only a lovely setting for the conference, but also an institutional passion for educating children successfully–both in academics and social-emotional growth. We hope you’ll join us in Atlanta for this powerful weekend. Eva …
September 1, 2019
Gaming is popular, but do we use it to teach maturity? If not, why not? Should boys just be gaming without adult input? To me, videogames are not just games but potential maturation tools because they already deal with themes of character development and manhood at their core. Every videogame—even ones that we might find despicable, like Grand Theft Auto—can become assets in a boy’s moral development, but we MUST discuss the games …
August 7, 2019
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