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Our monthly publication dedicated to educational leadership and trauma-informed, compassionate school practices that help educators, students, and families move toward a sense of wholeness and well-being.
Over the past decade, we have worked with educational leaders to design options and opportunities to implement evidence-based best practices that ‘fast track’ academic progress and close gaps between the latest research on student achievement and what is practiced in schools.
During this next year in HeartMind e-News, building on our understanding of neurobiology, heart centeredness, and mindfulness, the Center for Educational Improvement will provide succinct overviews of research-based practices to strengthen and support schools.​
Archive
2024
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January: New Beginnings
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2023​​​​​
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December: The Joy of Learning
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​November: Building Protective Factors and Furthering Resilience: Compassionate Practices for Schools
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September: Reflective Practices and Caring School Communities
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September: Compassionate School Leadership Academy (CSLA): A Path Forward To Lift Schools Up
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​August: A Successful Start for 2023
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​July: Staff and Student Well-being
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​June: Socialization, Technology, and Children's Curiosity
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May: Decreasing Anxiety, Increasing Students' Confidence and Courage
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March: Anxiety, Children's Mental Health, and the Compassionate School Leadership Academy
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February: Anxiety and Dysregulation: Reaching, Teaching, and Supporting All Students
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January: Deemphasizing Assignment Tracking; Reemphasizing Play and Antiracism
2022​​
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December: Anxiety and Trauma: Needs and Best Practices
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November: Compassionate School Practices
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October: Enhancing Equity
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September: Youth, Listening, and the Metaverse
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July: Grief, Loss, Discrimination, Devaluation, & Executive Functioning
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May: Culture, Cultural Competence, Teen Suicide, and Friendship
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April: Revisioning Education: Curriculum, Examining Equity, & Including the Arts
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January: School Shootings
​2021
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December: Innovations and Investments; Holiday Update
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November: Announcements; Stimulating Brain Development in Early Childhood
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October: Poverty, Mindfulness, and Antiracism
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September: Stress, Vitality, and Compassion
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August: Supporting the Mental Health and Well-Being of Students
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July: Listening to Youth
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June: Special Summer Issue
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May: Building Community
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April: Culture of Courage
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March: Confidence and Self-Care
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February: Cultivating Compassion
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January: HeartMind Adventure
Each edition of HeartMind e-News offers a research-based perspective to help readers understand more about what can be done to further trauma-informed, compassionate school practices that help educators, students, and families move toward a sense of wholeness and well-being.
These practical exercises give our readers a way to understand more about the value of CEI's 5Cs—consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community.