By Christine Mason From October 2017- April 2018, CEI conducted a validation study of our School – Compassionate Culture Analytic Tool for Educators (S-CCATE). During that time over 800 teachers from 25 states, the District of Columbia, and six countries responded to our online survey. In January 2018, we announced 11 award winners; our March 23, we announced an additional three winners. We have just selected the final 7 award winners. The final grand prize winner is: Cody Sc

By Dr. Joanne Robinson, Director of Professional Learning, Education Leadership Canada CEO, International School Leadership ONTARIO PRINCIPALS’ COUNCIL Universally, we are having a lot of discussion about the needs of our 21st Century graduates in order for them to survive and thrive in changing global societies. According to Dr. Michael Fullan from Ontario, Canada, and one of the world’s leaders on student achievement and change, our graduates need to go beyond the basics. H

By Koncha PinoÌ’s Pey, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Contemplative Studies, Estudio Contemplativo, Spain, and CEI Board Member Our world today is filled with insecurity, global competition and volatility. As a species, we seem to have perfected countless ways and means to harm and terrorize one another, ways that reveal our base instincts. In our attempt to find security, we have resorted to military “solutions” to more and more global problems. To defend our financial and social inte

By: Morgan Grant, CEI Intern ‘So I don’t worry anymore when the kids call me a Lake Rat. I know who I am, and I know about the lake, that we are part of it and it’s part of us’   – Jeanne of Muskrat Will Be Swimming Incorporating Native American picture books such as Muskrat Will Be Swimming by Cheryl Savageau, can be one way of introducing multi-cultural literature to the classroom. (Kid World Citizen, 2018; Pragmatic Mom, 2017). Native American children tend to be portrayed