By Lauren Kiesel, CEI Intern Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”– Theodore Roosevelt As Suzan Mullane has seen firsthand in her work with West Virginia schools amidst the opioid crisis, family trauma isn’t simply left at the door when students enter the classroom. When addiction leads to an incarcerated parent or teens becoming the primary caretaker for young siblings, among many other types of family trauma, students may be silently suffering,

By Dana Asby, CEI Director of Innovation & Research Support, and Zenisha Shah, CEI Writer and Counselor at Innisfree House School This is the first part of the special series Equity in Education. In a world focusing on sensationalizing the negative aspects of education and equity, experts like Dr. Yvette Jackson, Founder and Senior Scholar of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, and Dr. Michele Rivers Murphy, Director of Heart Centered Learning® at the Center

By Vien Nguyen, CEI Intern and Dana Asby, CEI Director of Innovation & Research Support Today the nurture vs. nature debate has largely been resolved – experts agree that both are interrelated in a complex dance that shapes our behavior (Hackman & Farah, 2009). In the past few years, researchers have been especially interested in the interplay between one specific aspect of nurture, poverty, and one of nature, the brain. They have known for decades that both family and neighb

By Didi Dunin, CEI Intern This is the second part of the special series Equity in Education. Inequity that stems from race, gender, sexual orientation socio-economic status or disability is a tragic part of our history, culture, and modern life. It impacts all of us in society. Understanding the causes and consequences of inequity is critical for stimulating social change and a more compassionate world. Understanding Implicit Biases While combating explicit bias towards any

By Vien Nguyen, CEI Intern This August, the Childhood-Trauma Learning Collaborative (C-TLC) is celebrating its first Featured Fellow! We’d like to introduce Lisa Parker, who inspires students every day as a high school social worker in Rhode Island. Earlier this year, Lisa presented at a very successful Mental Health Summit hosted by the National Education Association (NEA). The event, sponsored by the Rhode Island NEA, was attended by 150 educators and other union members fr