![]() ![]() GI has a 25 year track record of success working with schools in the public and private sectors throughout the country by using brain-based science to drive learning. The Gurian Institute (GI) may be one of the nation’s leading institutions helping school districts, teachers, and parents understand the ways boys and girls learn differently. Michael Gurian’s Boys and Girls Learn Differently is one of the leading books on the topic and a foundational piece of the Gurian Institute. There are places, however, where some inroads regarding Gender-Based learning are bearing fruit, although not nearly enough. ![]() There was a time when biological differences as well as gender expectations were discussed openly. Understanding sex differences as it pertains to learning and development has gone by the wayside and debates regarding gender differences and learning are rarely discussed. One will not find such staffing and programs for Gender-Based learning models with proven track records of increasing student performance. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the role of DEI and CRT is not the point here. This same administrative structure is entrenched in college campuses throughout the country. Go to any progressive district in the country and it’s likely there is a DEI administrator and a supporting cast of staff and programs. These initiatives have taken the lion’s share of attention and school resources. So much of today’s educational system and culture has moved away from these biological realities and toward something else.ĭiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and Critical Race Theory (CRT) have done more than taken a foothold in the K-12 educational system. Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development, once a staple of introduction to psychology classes and integral to education majors, seems awkward and out of place in a contemporary educational system where biological differences are no longer in vogue. ![]()
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