By: Didi Dunin, CEI Intern More than just the winter blues and the stress of report cards and exams, seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a subtype of clinical depression that occurs during the winter months. Fortunately, there are ways to treat SAD and we should consider treatment options as early as possible so that youth
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By Kelsey Remeis, CEI Intern Jaime Ela, a C-TLC Fellow, is a Pre-K-2nd Grade Principal at two Maine schools, Libby Tozier and Sabattus Primary Schools. Jaime, a second year principal in her Maine district, has continually worked to educate teachers about the benefits of building relationships within the school community. She has been shifting away
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By Dana Asby, CEI Director of Innovation & Research Support As neuroscience research becomes more widely disseminated and “trauma-informed” is one of the hottest buzzwords in education, leaders are asking themselves how to integrate their epiphanies about what students and teachers need to succeed into the school communities they’ve long established. As more and more
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By Dana Asby, CEI Director of Innovation & Research Support What do great schools have in common? What sets a successful school apart from a struggling one? Our decades of work in the classroom, consulting with school leaders, and looking at the research base have led us to conclude that one of the defining characteristics
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By Dr. Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director The great existential and humanistic psychologist Rollo May, in the foreword to his book Freedom and Destiny (1999), writes, “Freedom is how we relate to our destiny, and destiny is significant only because we have freedom. In the struggle of our freedom against and with destiny, our creativity
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By Dana Asby, Director of Innovation & Research Support The demands of the 21st Century, and the resulting stress that affects students, staff, and the greater community, have left many educational leaders pondering a key question: How to balance state and federal standards and requirements with their instinctual understanding that what children—and the adults who
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By Dana Asby, CEI Director of Innovation & Research Support Since the first widely publicized school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, more than 233,000 students have been exposed to gun violence. The shooting that occurred yesterday in Santa Clarita, CA was the 7th since the start of the academic year only 3 months
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By Will Foley, CEI Intern Part 1 of 2 on Peace Education and Healing We are never traumatized alone. We are wounded together. Together too, we heal. Relying on one another for support and love, we help each other through the darkest times. Those who inflict harm can become the same people that restore us.
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