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...
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Center for Educational Improvement
- May 29, 2016
- 1 min
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
- Feb 10, 2015
- 1 min
CEI Innovations Ship- Classrooms of the Future – at NAESP Conference
By Christine Mason The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) will be holding its Annual Conference in Long Beach,...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 10, 2014
- 2 min
Ethnic Minority Students Become Majority in the Classroom
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern This fall marks the first school year that ethnic and racial minority students are the majority in public...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Apr 18, 2014
- 2 min
CEI Executive Director’s Interview on Blog Radio
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director. My colleague, Kevin Simpson, Executive Director of KDSL, an international educational...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Feb 5, 2014
- 1 min
NAESP Academic Rigor Webinar Thurs. Feb. 6
Webinar Description. The NAESP Rigor seminar was developed with an eye toward providing information about rigor in the classroom,...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jan 17, 2014
- 2 min
Where’s the Focus? Rigor and the Common Core
By Christine Mason. I have long considered ‘rigor’ to be the sweet spot of the Common Core State Standards. In fact, by implementing the...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 8, 2013
- 2 min
Sailing and Rigging: Learning and Rigor
And from another author: “Seven miles offshore we meet our first ice. Closer in it is everywhere; there is often one floe ten yards to...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 18, 2013
- 2 min
Using Gaze Aversion to Improve Metacognition
When a difficult question is posed, do you look left or right while thinking about your response? Do you look up or down as you consider...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Apr 16, 2013
- 1 min
What Makes Finland’s Education System So Successful?
By Joseph Jay Williams, Doctoral Candidate University of California Berkeley, Research Assistant CEI. Finland has received a great deal...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Nov 19, 2012
- 1 min
Brains, the Common Core & Leadership
I am participating this weekend in a conference on Learning and the Brain. Actually multi-tasking with my iPad as I listen to lectures...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jan 19, 2012
- 1 min
The Pursuit
I have been focused recently on best practices in education and have been reflecting on some of the teachers and schools that have...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Oct 13, 2011
- 1 min
Rigor and Waivers
Could it be that providing a NCLB waiver will result in greater rigor? What will states propose to do to demonstrate that they are...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Aug 18, 2011
- 2 min
Visioning the Future of Schools….Visioning the Future
How closely is the future of schools correlated with the future for all globally? Any guesses? What are the 5 top trends in education...