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 life-changing PD experience for our schools.”  A principal who used it the same way called it, “eye-opening, dynamic, and the perfect fit for forty teachers on our PD day.”

When Michael and the GI team created the course, we did so in order to 1) help educators and others who wanted theory and strategies individually, 2) provide a way for groups of teachers/staff to have a one-day Professional Development experience, and 3) give potential certifying Gurian Institute trainers an online asset as part of their certification.  Happily, the course is being used in all these ways, and it is now being used during the Covid crisis, as well–a powerful way to get 6 hours of PD for a school’s or district’s full staff.

If you are looking for resources for your January Professional Development days, we hope you will consider using this Online Course as well as our other services on www.gurianinstitute.com.  Our work, like this Course, can be used at any time of the year.  Our work is a great fit for both coed and single sex schools, providing in depth understanding and practical strategies to empower the learning and life needs of both boys and girls.  Once your organization or school purchases the Course, GI will send a private link to your team leader that allows the course to be projected for the whole room.

The video content of the Course is divided into well-timed clips that align with discussion questions and exercises you are provided with in PDF form for distribution to all the staff, likely via Zoom or other online modality, but if you are back in person, then in the PD room.  A leader can help navigate content and lead exercises, or the course can stand alone as long as a leader gives reflection/discussion time.  Either way, the course can fill a six to seven hour PD day because all of its content in various modalities.

For PD day groups, we offer a discount price per person that is aligned with the number of participants.  To explore these discounts and learn more about how to bring the course to your PD day, write us at info@gurianinstitute.com.  To learn more about all our products and our online courses, please visit us at www.gurianinstitute.com.  We look forward to serving you in the new year!

Here is more about the course.

Get ready to learn and apply practical applications that have been proven successful in schools and communities around the world!  Each video session is packed with actionable information.  Here are examples.

Streaming Video Clips for Unit 1

Chapter 1: The Ship and the Lighthouse
Chapter 2: What Is Happening in the Brains of Boys and Girls?
Chapter 3: Potential Questions from Your Students, Staff, and Leadership
Chapter 4: Four Aspects of He and She, including Transgender Brains
Chapter 5: Sex on the Brain is Structural, Part 1
Chapter 6 (cont’d): Sex on the Brain is Structural, Part II
Chapter 7: Citizen Science, the Dolls and Trucks Experiment
Chapter 8: Brain Scans of Gender Differences in the Developing Brain

Streaming Video Clips for Unit 2

Chapter 1: Spatial and Movement-Based Teaching Strategies for Boys
Chapter 2: Graphical and Visual Teaching Strategies for Boys
Chapter 3: Male and Female Brain Structure—Memory and Rumination
Chapter 4: The Female Brain – White Matter and Gray Matter Activity
Chapter 5: Developing a Sense of Purpose via Gray Matter Concentration
Chapter 6: Spatial Intelligence and Competitive Motivation
Chapter 7: Aggression-Nurturance and Empathy Nurturance
Chapter 8: Brains in the Rest State

Streaming Video Clips for Unit 3

Chapter 1: The Bi-Strategic Approach and Competition
Chapter 2: Risk and Competition
Chapter 3: Screen Time and the Prefrontal Cortex
Chapter 4: Brain Breaks and Neurotoxins
Chapter 5: Strategies that Use Movement
Chapter 6: Bridge Brains
Chapter 7: Strategies for Boys, Part 1 – Movement and Mentoring
Chapter 8: Strategies for Boys, Part 2 – Relevance, Graphics, and Service
Chapter 9: Strategies for Boys, Part 3 – Project-Based and Vocational Learning

Streaming Video Clips for Unit 4

Chapter 1: Girls and Women in STEM Fields
Chapter 2: Math Strategies for Girls
Chapter 3: Relational Aggression – Boundaries and Resilience
Chapter 4: Relational Aggression – Learning Through Failure, Understanding Oxytocin/Bonding
Chapter 5: Relational Aggression vs. Relational Violence in Girls
Chapter 6: Relational Aggression vs. Relational Violence in Boys
FAQs