Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities
For the last several decades schools have followed regulations to make sure students who are identified as having disabilities have...
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Center for Educational Improvement
Mar 8, 20185 min read
A Teacher’s Appeal to the Heart – Does Spirituality Have a Place in Schools?
By Marah Barrows, CEI Intern, and Christine Mason Does spirituality have a place in schools? A tough question. Particularly since we have...
Center for Educational Improvement
Feb 20, 20181 min read
Ontario Principals’ Council Now Supporting Compassion Validation Study
Click here to begin the survey. Principals, please forward to your teachers to respond. We welcome responses from K-8 teachers in the...
Center for Educational Improvement
Feb 20, 20181 min read
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17. February 14, 2018. May this date mark change and be recorded in history as the day, the day when never again began. Consider our...
Center for Educational Improvement
Feb 8, 20183 min read
Poverty – What is a Compassionate Response?
by Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Editors Note: in 2016-2017, CEI took a deep look at hunger and food scarcity. Over several...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 30, 20182 min read
11 Award Winners and More Opportunities – Validation Study Continuing
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director and Paul Liabenow, CEI President Click here to begin the survey. Principals, please forward to...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 15, 20182 min read
MLK, Justice, and Compassionate Schools
By Christine Mason The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character –...
Center for Educational Improvement
Oct 6, 20171 min read
Opportunity for Principal & Teacher Voice Re: School Culture Assessment (Elem. & Middle)
Participating teachers who complete the validation study have an opportunity to enter a drawing for the following prizes: 10 Amazon Gift...
Center for Educational Improvement
Aug 28, 20172 min read
Conquering Bullying Through Emotional Learning
Editor’s Note: Please see the previous blog post about Peace Jam By Nicole Colchete, CEI Intern One powerful way to prevent bullying is...
Center for Educational Improvement
Aug 15, 20172 min read
Racism, White Supremacy, & Neo-Nazism
When will the evil of racism, white supremacy, and neo-nazism end? How have the extremists groups supporting such bigotry and hate...
Center for Educational Improvement
Aug 14, 20172 min read
Hatred and Violence Must End
By Christine Mason Heather Heyer, a 32-year old legal assistant, was killed and 19 were injured when a white supremacist from Ohio rammed...
Center for Educational Improvement
Aug 11, 20173 min read
PeaceJam: A Program To Reduce Bullying and Further Compassion
By Nicole Colchete, CEI Intern What Is PeaceJam? Examples of PeaceJam’s Global Success One reason why PeaceJam is so influential is...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jun 20, 20171 min read
CEI to Present at Principals Conference July 11 in Philadelphia
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Tuesday, July 11, 7:30-8:45 am, Room 103B at the National Principals Conference in...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jun 20, 20171 min read
CEI Presents at Syracuse Early Care Conference
Dr. Mason’s session on Trauma and Early Childhood Education, based on research that CEI has been doing and a book on Heart Centered...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 20, 20173 min read
We Are Lacking a Realistic New Vision for Education
On Inauguration Day 2017, we pause for a moment to ask our colleagues about their hopes and dreams for schools. In 2017 and the years to...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 18, 20173 min read
Property Taxes and Education: Saving Prince William County Schools from being Inherently Inequitable
By Jordan Gilliard, CEI Intern This is the first of a series of articles on inequities in education. In this article Jordan Gilliard...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 16, 20173 min read
Pilgrimage for Democracy, Martin Luther King, and Work to be Done
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director The President Reflects. President Obama in his Presidential Proclamation of Martin Luther King...
Center for Educational Improvement
Jan 10, 20172 min read
Free Public Education is the Backbone of Democracy
By Christine Mason Charter Schools Emerge in America I remember back about a decade or so, when charter schools emerged. KIPP provides a...
Center for Educational Improvement
Dec 7, 20161 min read
National Call for Inclusive Values
CEI supports this call for inclusivity The School Superintendents Association (AASA) American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Gay,...
Center for Educational Improvement
Dec 6, 20164 min read
FAQs: CEI’s Hunger- Food Insecurity Lessons Update for 2017
For the past three months CEI has been promoting a 21st Century program we developed to help 6th-8th grade students understand not only...
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