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Last week, on February 14, 2018, a teenage gunman slaughtered children and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a suburb northwest of Ft. Lauderdale. He killed twelve people inside the school walls, three outside, and two died on the way to the hospital. To ensure his kills, the gunman used the fire alarm as a weapon—forcing children and teachers out of the school so he could …
This week we are proud to feature a blog post by Susan Jentzsch, the Director of our Summer Institute and author of the Teen Leadership Forum. After spending 20 years at Qualcomm, Susan branched into teen support, with a special interest in gender intelligence and the gender lens. She is a true innovator in more than one field and she will be presenting three workshops at this year’s Training …
The Gurian Summer Training Institute begins this Friday evening with a warm welcome reception then Saturday morning with training and networking. There is still time to register on www.gurianinstitute.com or at the door. The two-day Training Institute will be held at one of our Model Schools, the Army and Navy Academy, which is located right on the beach in Carlsbad, CA, at 2605 Carlsbad Blvd. Thank you, Army and Navy …
A hallmark of our training and research are our success strategies. When I first began studying classrooms, I looked immediately for natural innovations that teachers were using to reach, teach, and manage boys and girls most effectively. As a research team developed around my original theory, the group of us at the University of Missouri spread our research further. Over the years, this effort expanded to homes, communities, …
A girl is obsessed with social media, a boy with video games. An adolescent girl defines herself with selfies and visual sexualization. A boy sexualizes his brain with porn use. When I delineate “girls” and “boys” in my lectures, some people say, “But shouldn’t you say, ‘kids,’ or just ‘teens’? Girls look at porn, boys take selfies; girls like video games, boys like social media.” “There’s no doubt about …
Dr. Glynetta DeShon (“Fletch”) Fletcher, Assistant Principal of Edwin Markham Middle School in Los Angeles Unified School District, has devoted her life to working in urban public schools with at-risk students. She has taught English Language Arts at the high school level, study skills for incoming college freshmen, and ELA secondary methods for urban educators. As a teacher in an urban high school, she focused on African American males …
Tim Wright is a bridge builder between secular and faith communities, and a powerful speaker and teacher. It will be a joy to have him speak at our 2018 Summer Institute. Tim and I have worked on Rites of Passage programs for both boys/families and girls/families–in both secular and faith-based communities. I am Jewish but operate mainly as a secular thinker, and Tim, a Lutheran Pastor, works mainly in the …
Dr. Lisa Basista is one of those people who dynamically leads others with excitement and power and yet carries a sense of peace in her, a quiet reflectiveness that allows adolescents and adults around her to grow and learn. Dr. Basista and I first met four years ago and ever since then I’ve been planning ways to have her speak at our Summer Institute. She is a true student …
Carolyn Ragatz, one of our certified trainers, wrote me an email that fleshes out the question for this week. “I just read your latest blog on screen time–so important to get that word out and I posted on my fb & twitter pages. I have another related question: we are noticing an increase in students with anxiety. Now, most of this coming to us, according to parents, without any official …
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