Eva Dwight, ME.d., a former teacher and counselor, is our Gurian Institute Program Director and travels the country providing training for pre-K and K-12 schools and organizations.  Dynamic, accessible, always practical in her workshops and trainings, Eva is also a Positive Discipline Certified Trainer who helps educators and families study and manage child development with depth and humor. Eva will provide our Two Part Boys and Girls Learn Differently training …

Our newsletter this week features a question by a parent and coach about digital use and the tween brain.   Michael Gurian will be providing a keynote on this very topic at this year’s GI Summer Training Institute in June.  Other speakers this year will integrate the topic into their workshops. The Surgeon General has just called for a national effort to protect our children’s brains from significant use of screens, …

Since 1997, the Gurian Institute has been certifying trainers to provide professional development and consulting in schools, organizations, and communities.  You can meet some of our trainers on https://gurianinstitute.com/trainers/.   We hope every school to have at least one certified trainer to train faculty, staff, and parents in brain-based teaching and whole child growth. Have you considered becoming a Gurian Certified Trainer?  Do you know someone at your school or in …

Sean Kullman, Director of the Global Initiative for Boys and Men, has published a powerful series of articles that pertain to child development and education, specifically what is happening with our boys.  This week we are featuring Part III of his series, a section of which looks at the work of the Gurian Institute. We hope you’ll join us at our Summer Institute this June to learn more about this …

Sean Kullman is an educator and social philosopher who leads the Global Initiative for Boys and Men.  You can subscribe to his work by emailing him at seank@gibm.us.   Here is an important guest blog on learning…and a lot more.  Thank you, Sean, for this guest blog: Sarah Mervosh of the New York Times recently discussed the Pandemic Learning Loss and the declines in math and reading scores. She has written several pieces on learning loss since …