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Center for Educational Improvement
- Oct 3, 2016
- 3 min
Research-based Math with Graphically Rich Animations
By Sam Walters, CEI Intern Students love technology. As someone who taught middle school math last year for DC Public Schools, I...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 1, 2016
- 4 min
Tools to Implement 21st Century Practices: A CEI Survey
Christine Mason and Brogan Murphy, CEI Intern How can CEI assist principals and teachers in integrating 21st Century practices in their...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Aug 29, 2016
- 1 min
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...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Aug 10, 2016
- 2 min
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...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Feb 17, 2016
- 1 min
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
- Dec 17, 2015
- 1 min
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...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 15, 2015
- 4 min
CEI’s 21st Century Learning Rubric
By Christine Mason FAQS Q: The 21st Century Rubric is organized into five primary areas. Why were they selected? A: To thrive in the...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Oct 27, 2015
- 2 min
Repurpose, Redesign, and Upgrade
Art education has the potential to serve a practical function outside of the realm of drawing, painting, sculpting, etc. Children are...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 4, 2015
- 2 min
Bread & Roses
Last night, at about 8:30 pm I found myself at a nearby Staples store. This store was as busy as I had ever seen it. Parents and...
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
- Jan 21, 2015
- 1 min
Baltes Wins CEI’s First Ever ‘Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use’ Competit
Alleta Baltes is the 2015 winner of CEI’s first annual Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use Competition. The contest asked...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 22, 2014
- 1 min
Save the Date: February 5, 2015, CEI STEAM Learning Showcase
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math (STEAM) Leaning Showcase Explore, Learn, Share and Collaborate Time: 4:30 pm ‘“ 6:30 pm...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 18, 2014
- 3 min
Innumeracy and Integrating Math across the Curriculum
By Lindsay Reeves, CEI Intern, and Christine Mason The old patterns of isolating math instruction, over a gradual period of time, have...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 9, 2014
- 1 min
CEI “Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use” Competition
By Christine Mason Runners up: 2nd Place: $50 gift card; 3rd place: $25 gift card. Early in 2014 we introduced CEI ‘s 21st Century...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 23, 2014
- 2 min
The Importance of Recycling
By Kelley Wells, CEI Intern The world is a beautiful place to live, but it will not remain this way unless humans do something soon....
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jul 22, 2014
- 2 min
Arts Integration
By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern. Arts Education has frequently taken a backseat to the concepts of 21st century learning, something, and...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jul 15, 2014
- 2 min
Engineering Empathy
By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern. Educators at every level of schooling’”from Pre-K to Higher Education’”benefit from including lessons...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jul 3, 2014
- 2 min
Made With Code: Girls in STEM
By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern. Less than one percent of high school girls think of computer science as part of their future, even though...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Apr 4, 2014
- 2 min
Learning With Portals
Portal is, at it’s core, a physics platformer. Players, called “Test Subjects” are locked in a room, with the exit on the opposite side...