CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT (CEI)

CEI Swirl.jpg
  • HOME

  • Initiatives

  • Focus & Research

  • Library

    • C-TLC's Compassion Action
    • HeartMind e-News
    • Blog
  • About Us

  • Contact

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • All Posts
    • 21st century leadership & learning
    • back to school
    • childhood trauma
    • children's mental health
    • common core standards
    • educational innovations
    • engagement
    • equity and justice
    • ess
    • essa
    • food insecurity
    • future of education
    • heart beaming
    • heart centered education
    • heart centered learning
    • instructional leadership
    • international
    • intervention methods
    • leadership
    • learning strategies
    • mental health screening
    • mindfulness
    • miscellaneous
    • neuroscience
    • race to the top
    • restorative justice
    • rigor
    • school culture
    • school improvement
    • school leaders
    Search
    Yoga in Schools: Specific Postures, Sequences, and Lesson Plans
    Didi Dunin
    • May 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Yoga in Schools: Specific Postures, Sequences, and Lesson Plans

    By Didi Dunin, CEI Intern, Certified Yoga Instructor Research shows that practicing yoga in schools has a number of benefits for students, including decreased stress; increased focus, self-regulation, and emotional cognition; and better academic performance (see Yoga in Schools Part 1). What does yoga in schools look like? To ensure students are getting the maximum benefits from these sessions, there should be a structural format that includes breath work, stretching, movemen
    CEI Partner: The Collaboration Nation Survey
    Center for Educational Improvement
    • Nov 14, 2016
    • 1 min

    CEI Partner: The Collaboration Nation Survey

    Getting involved in our research efforts is really easy! You can fill out this survey HERE. We greatly appreciate your support by volunteering your opinion! We encourage people of all backgrounds to fill out the survey. #community #futureofeducation #schoolimprovement #compassion #studentengagement #operationrespect #leadership
    Join the “Heart-Centered” Conversation!
    Center for Educational Improvement
    • Aug 15, 2016
    • 1 min

    Join the “Heart-Centered” Conversation!

    Commenter Alleta Baltes stated: “With the new reauthorization of ESSA and current poverty research emphasizing controlling children’s stress in order to learn, this project is s full package. We need to consider the whole student and create environments that compensate for what students lack at home. Supportive, encouraging curriculum such as this is exactly what is needed in schools today. I have been in education since 1981 and this is the most exciting project I have seen
    CEI Robotics and STEM/STEAM Early Childhood Presentations in DC
    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 future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers: creative and empathic ‘˜right-brain’ thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.’ –Daniel Pink On June 22nd and 23rd, the Joe Champs Summer Institute of Fight for Children featured
    CEI Becomes a Pioneer in the Children’s Well-being Initiative
    Center for Educational Improvement
    • Aug 2, 2016
    • 1 min

    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 Well-Being Initiative! We have been invited into the inner council of Ashoka and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, forging a better vision for the lives of children growing up in America. Children’s Wellbeing is hosting a Twitter Chat TOMORROW (Aug. 3) at 1-2pm EDT, and we are participating! You can join the conversation anytime by following the ha

    © 2022 Center for Educational Improvement. All rights reserved.

    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook