August - 2016

New Ways to Engage Students: Makerspaces

By Grace Rubenstein, CEI Intern Engaging, fun, hands-on experiences. Makerspaces serve as a balancing act against the stifling nature of...

Where is Your School Headed? Dissolve Your Problems & Be an Outlier

By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director If your school is like many others, you may be feeling that there is little chance that...

Join the “Heart-Centered” Conversation!

Commenter Alleta Baltes stated: “With the new reauthorization of ESSA and current poverty research emphasizing controlling children’s...

Pioneer Award & CEI’s New Facebook Page

We are thrilled to be recognized as one of 122 Pioneers by Children’s Well Being and to be a part of this distinguished network! For that...

CEI Presents with P21 at July 2016 Principals’ Conference

By Mahnaz Ahrary, CEI Intern, and Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Next, Dr. Mason introduced the CEI approach to considering and...

CEI Robotics and STEM/STEAM Early Childhood Presentations in DC

By Mahnaz Ahrary and Drew Altizer, CEI Interns Fight for Children: Joe Champs Summer Institute Conference June 22nd-23rd, 2016 ‘The...

Athletics Complement Education – Year Round

By Drew Altizer, CEI Intern Finding Time. If you’re still worried about not having enough time, try working out before school. It sounds...

CEI Pioneer Award

CEI Becomes a Pioneer in the Children’s Well-being Initiative

CEI is overjoyed to announce that our “Heart-Centered 21st Century Learning” project has been named a Pioneer in the Children’s...

Careful the Things You Say

By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Associate In Stephen Sondheim’s musical, Into the Woods, there’s a haunting song that warns us: Careful the...