More often than not, urban schools achieve lower academic achievement rates than the national average. Urban educators are interested in improving their schools to avoid further punitive sanctions and see their reputations improve. Dr. Yvette Jackson, co-author of Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools through Fearless Leadership (2014), hones in on exactly what it means to motivate students to succeed. What makes students want to achieve is a combination of f

The Dalai Lama calls compassion ‘a sensitivity to the suffering of self and others with a deep with and commitment to relieve the suffering’ (as cited by Gilbert, 2010, p. 22). For many students suffering can come from school, whether it’s anxiety over an exam, disappointment about a bad grade, or stress from working with difficult material. Compassion is about more than just being nice, it involves skills and attributes that help us deal with the suffering of ourselves and o

Date: Tuesday, June 30 | Time: 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Location: Westin Hotel, Melbourne Room, 3rd Fl Our panel discussion on the many ways these innovations are being implemented to advance critical thinking, metacognition, problem-solving, and deep conceptual understanding among students at all levels. PANELISTS: Dr. Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Dr. Kathleen Sciarappa, CEI Board Member Dr. Nancy Phenis-Bourke, CEI Board Member Paul Liabenow, CEI Board Member Othe