top of page
CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT (CEI)
Search
Center for Educational Improvement
Aug 2, 20161 min read
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...
Center for Educational Improvement
Aug 1, 20162 min read
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...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 29, 20163 min read
Teaching Mindfulness through Feminism and Intersectionality
By Marielle Byhouwer These are the words of my father. I am a biracial, middle class woman. My mother was adopted from South Korea as a...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 25, 20162 min read
Building Compassion through Games and Strategies
By Jordan Gilliard, CEI Intern More than 60 educational studies showing that there is a significant effect on students’ academic...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 14, 20162 min read
Using 21st Century Practices: Results of CEI’s Survey of Principals and Other Leaders
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Use of 21st Century Practices. For the purposes of the survey, CEI considered 21st Century...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 13, 20162 min read
Healing Self, Healing our Nation
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Most days, as I engage in yoga, I automatically feel gratitude for how I have learned to...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 11, 20163 min read
Healing Our Nation
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Dallas, Orlando, Minnesota, Baton Rougue, Charleston, Baltimore, Missouri, California,...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jul 4, 20163 min read
Fish or Fowl?
By Meghan Wenzel, CEI Intern and Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director What type of animal is a dog? Is ‘p’ a vowel or a consonant?...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jun 27, 20163 min read
Ways to Strengthen Learning
By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Intern. The clever phrase: “neurons that fire together, wire together,” was born from a 1949 theory...
Center for Educational Improvement
May 29, 20161 min read
Webinar on CEI Heart Centered 21st Century Rubric
By Christine Mason The CEI Heart Centered 21st Century Rubric is a research-based approach for planning, assessment, and monitoring...
Center for Educational Improvement
Mar 25, 20162 min read
The Practice of Heart Beaming – Finding Quiet Moments
By Michele Rivers Murphy, CEI Research Associate and Consultant Imagine for a Moment Close your eyes, take a few deep and slow...
Center for Educational Improvement
Feb 17, 20161 min read
Engineer’s Week Feb. 21-27
What are you doing to honor Engineer’s week? You might consider reaching out to local engineers to ask for their participation, having...
Center for Educational Improvement
Feb 12, 20162 min read
Heart Factoid
By Christine Mason Even after 15 years of teaching yoga, I also continue to be in awe of the relationship between energy, and yoga,...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 15, 20162 min read
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King – Forging Nonviolent Beliefs
By Christine Mason Last night as I was teaching yoga, I played some of Sweet Honey in the Rock’s music in honor of Martin Luther King....
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 11, 20161 min read
CEI Now Expanding Offerings – Yoga and Meditation
By Christine Mason Today more and more schools are starting to offer yoga, mindfulness, and meditation for youth and for teachers and...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 10, 20161 min read
CEI’s Final Technology Guidelines
By Christine Mason The final version of the guidelines is now available: 21st Century Technology Guidelines For Principals June 8 2015...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 6, 20162 min read
ESSA & NCLB – Some Comparisons
By Donald Kim, CEI Intern In signing ESSA, Obama shared that he wishes to ensure students graduate prepared for either college or a...
Center for Educational Improvement
Dec 30, 20152 min read
Mid-Year Adjustments – Please Proceed
By Christine Mason January – Schools need to change. Instruction needs to change. There is work to be done. Looking at the academic...
Center for Educational Improvement
Dec 17, 20151 min read
CEI Offers Early Childhood STEM/STEAM Workshops
By Christine Mason While our initial offerings will be held in Washington DC between January -May 2016, please let us know if you are...
bottom of page