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Learning Through A Gender Lens--Brain-Based Teaching and Training

Dr. Gurian and our Gurian Institute Certified Trainers are committed to helping schools, parents, and communities meet the academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs of boys and girls.  As professionals and parents understand how the brain works and the brain-based differences between boys and girls, they re-invent classrooms, schools, and home environments.  As the learning and developmental needs of boys and girls across the spectrum are met, achievement gaps close, discipline referrals decrease, behavior improves, and students succeed.  Because we have more than one hundred certified trainers on our team, many of whom are also parent coaches and mental health counselors, we can offer school-based training, parent education, and student-centered experiences.  Learning through a gender lens has been proven effective in thousands of schools over the last 20 years.  To bring our programs to your school or community, whether on-site or virtually, please contact Gail at info@gurianinstitute.com.

 

Our Speaking and Training Topics Include:

 

  • Boys and Girls Learn Differently:  Strategies for Effective Teaching Across the Curriculum

  • The Minds of Boys and Girls:  Helping Our Children Do Their Best in School and Life

  • Culturally Responsive Teaching:  Effective Practices for Holistic Approaches to Race, Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity

  • The Cultures We Make: Working Effectively with Boys and Girls of Color

  • The Digital Brain: Assets and Effects of Screens, Smart Phones, and Social Media on the Developing Brain

  • Tele-Schooling:  How to Make Distance and Online Learning Most Effective for Boys and Girls

  • Trauma and Learning:  ACES and Gender-Specific, Trauma-Informed Strategies for Helping Children Learn and Grow

  • The Power of Diversity:  Teaching and Mentoring Latino Students and Dual Language Learners

  • Parenting with the Brain in Mind:  Success Strategies for Children of All Ages

  • Soothing the Stress Response in Girls and Handling Girl Drama

  • The Teen Brain:  How to Nurture and Educate Brains That Are Changing Daily!

  • Dynamic Rites of Passage for Boys and Girls

  • Building both Empathy and Resilience:  Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys and Girls

  • The Crucial Conversation:  Seven Keys to Suicide and Violence Prevention

  • The Minds of Girls:  Raising and Educating Resilient and Healthy Daughters

  • The Minds of Boys:  Proven School-Based Strategies for Educating Our Sons

  • Becoming a Man:  What It Means and How Do We Teach It?

  • Nurture the Nature:  Understanding and Supporting Your Child’s Core Personality Across the Gender Spectrum

  • Working with The Sensitive Child and the Pressured Child

  • How Do I Help Him?  New Theory and Strategies for Reaching Boys and Men in Therapeutic Settings

  • Getting Students to Actually WANT to Learn From You

  • Helping Boys and Men Develop Healthy Masculinity in Our New Cultural Climate

  • Social Emotional Learning Through the Gender Lens:  Seven Keys to Helping Males and Females Process Emotional Life Safely and Happily

  • Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls:  Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Levels

  • Helping Boys Thrive www.helpingboysthrive.org

“Our thanks to you, Michael, and your GI team.  Our 25 years of work in this area began and owes everything to you.”  William Draves, www.lern.org

EARLY CHILDHOOD
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SINGLE GENDER
PACKAGES & PRICING
MENTAL HEALTH
LEARNING & BEHAVIORAL DISABILITIES
SOCIAL MEDIA RESPONSIBILITY
BOYS & LITERACY
BECOMING A GURIAN MODEL SCHOOL

Gurian Institute Professional Development for Educators

Part 1: Plan

  • Assess academic achievement and discipline referrals
  • Develop professional development goals and desired outcomes
  • Examine district-wide goals and objectives and recent strategic planning efforts
  • Assess community awareness and readiness

Part 2: Develop

  • Generate a customized professional development plan based on the planning process
  • Determine evaluation parameters and criteria
  • Individualize training materials and approach to fit the district’s needs Design activities that are embedded in teachers’ contexts and content relevant Identify the Gurian Institute team to facilitate the professional development plan
  • Develop community strategies to inform parents and community support organizations

Part 3: Implement

  • Launch the professional development program
  • Host community programs/parent sessions
  • Conduct pre- and post-training assessments

Part 4: Sustain

  • Review assessment results and identify implementation challenges
  • Fine tune implementation
  • Provide technical assistance as required Identify, teach and certify on-site trainers (training of trainers model)


Part 5: Excel

  • Complete the requirements to become a Gurian Institute Model School* or District, if desired

* Contact the Gurian Institute to learn about criteria for becoming a Model School

Success data

from the last twenty years shows specific areas of quantitative and qualitative success at schools that implement our GI gender-based instruction. These “Boys and Girls Learn Differently” strategies result in:

  • Improved teacher effectiveness
  • Achievement gaps closed, especially in literacy, math, and science
  • Gender gaps closed across the curriculum
  • Significantly decreased discipline referrals
  • Significantly improved student behavior
  • Increased parent-school-community collaboration

Gurian Institute professional development is multi-media, hands-on, experiential and engaging! We’ll show you how to incorporate gender-based instruction into your existing programs – with ease! Decide when (full day, half-day, one-day, multi-day) and how (onsite, webinars, mixed). Contact Gail at info@gurianinstitute.com to discuss your unique professional development needs.

PACKAGES & PRICING
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