January 2018 marks the beginning of our third year working with Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas as a Center for Excellence in Educating Boys. Central Catholic, a school for boys in the Marianist tradition, located in San Antonio, Texas, is more than 150 years old. It is institutionally committed to raising boys into empathic and successful men of service. In the last decade, GI has been honored …
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February 2, 2018
Troy Kemp is an internationally recognized keynote speaker, and our Sunday keynoter at the Summer Institute this June. His dynamic approach to teaching and mentoring boys has led him to his position as Executive Director of the National Center for the Development of Boys (www.understandingboys.org). Previously, he spent 25 years in the classroom, on the field (Troy is an eight-time state champion and three-time coach of the year recipient …
April 16, 2018
The most recent available data, vetted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, shows children between 2 and 12 spend 4.5 hours per day in front of screens (using their phones, looking into I devices and Pads, watching movies, playing videogames). In U.S. homes with children under 9, 98% have mobile devices. In the majority of these homes parents and other adults hand children their Smart Phones to play on or …
January 29, 2018
Early Bird Registration for the Gurian Summer Institute ends April 30! We are only hosting one Gurian Summer Training Institute for 2018. The 2-day Training Session will be held on June 23rd and 24th. A Certification of Trainers session will be offered on Monday, June 25th, 8:00am. Certificates for 12 Professional Development Hours will be provided to you at the end of the Event. In case you aren’t familiar with The Gurian Institute: GI provides services and products …
April 23, 2018
Tucker Carlson debuted a new series, “Men in America,” on his Fox News program to run all through March with the words, “American men are in crisis.” Mr. Carlson noted: “This is a crisis, yet our leaders pretend it’s not happening, but ignoring the decline of men does not help anyone. Men and women need each other. One cannot exist without the other. That is elemental biology, but it’s also …
March 27, 2018
We just ended our Helping Boys Thrive Summit in Phoenix. Next week we will be in Littleton, Colorado, near the school where young lives were lost twenty years ago to a school shooter. The Gurian Institute and its partners have been proud to collaborate on Helping Boys Thrive Summits with local organizers. Some of the Summits are run by secular agencies/organizations, and those summits are secular in nature. Every year, …
March 5, 2018
“Our genomes are 99.9% identical from one person to the next as long as the two individuals being compared are two men or two women. But if we compare a woman and a man, the genetic differences are 15 times greater than the genetic differences for two males or two females.” –David C. Page, M.D., Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology I live in Washington state and our …
January 14, 2018
Dr. Michael Gurian has studied and served children for thirty years. In The Wonder of Girls (2002), he presented a science-based approach to raising healthy and successful daughters. In The Minds of Girls, he pioneers new and intuitive approaches to health and wellness in all three important areas of girls’ development: nature, nurture, and culture. As many girls struggle with digital and social complexities in our families and in our communities, this book is timely, …
February 2, 2018
We begin this year with a sense of profound thanks for all of you who have brought the Gurian Institute into your schools, homes, and communities for twenty years. We have trained tens of thousands of professionals and reached more than one million parents and community members. Our energy and passion for this work is fed by your energy and passion. You drive us, and I want to begin 2018 …
January 2, 2018
A Blog Post by Michael Gurian Today’s date is 12/7/17. What I write here will attach to today’s date yet, I believe, also be universal, not time-sensitive. The scandals are growing. Our children –whether in school or at home—likely notice the furor. Especially if they are now adolescents or emerging adults, the issue of appropriate sexual conduct and boundaries is crucial to their survival. Today: Warren Moon, the renowned quarterback …
December 12, 2017
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