heart centered education

Aug 11, 20213 min read

Collaborating on Compassionate, Comprehensive School Mental Health

By Dana Asby, CEI Director of Innovation & Research Support, and Martha Staeheli, Director of the New England Mental Health Technology...

Visioning Onward: Planning Heart Centered 21st Century Learning Communities

Dana Asby

Oct 15, 20193 min read

Visioning Onward: Planning Heart Centered 21st Century Learning Communities

By Dana Asby, CEI Director of Innovation & Research Support School leaders with passion and drive to make a transformative change in...

Parents and Compassion: A Webinar on the Role of Schools in Healing Family Trauma

Lauren Kiesel

Aug 16, 20194 min read

Parents and Compassion: A Webinar on the Role of Schools in Healing Family Trauma

By Lauren Kiesel, CEI Intern Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”– Theodore Roosevelt As Suzan Mullane has...

Vien Nguyen

Jun 12, 20194 min read

Fears of Compassion

By Vien Nguyen, CEI Intern Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of our series on Barriers to Compassion. A teacher colleague of mine said her...

Looking at Discipline Differently: Bringing Restorative Discipline to the Classroom

Lindsey Erin Feltis

Oct 14, 20183 min read

Looking at Discipline Differently: Bringing Restorative Discipline to the Classroom

By Lindsey Erin Feltis, CEI Intern In recent years, schools that are implementing restorative practices have reported stronger...

Maddie Pribanova

Oct 14, 20183 min read

Compassionate Discipline in Practice

By Maddy Pribanova, CEI Intern Overcoming Resistance Sometimes compassion and communication are not enough. The experience of child...

Center for Educational Improvement

Oct 14, 20184 min read

The Strength of Vulnerability

By Maddy Pribanova, CEI Intern Brene Brown’s TED talk on “The Power of Vulnerability” describes vulnerability as the birthplace of true...

Mindfulness Based Mentoring: A Focus on Students from Pre-K to Higher Education

Center for Educational Improvement

Aug 23, 20182 min read

Mindfulness Based Mentoring: A Focus on Students from Pre-K to Higher Education

Join us for this IMA Webinar! Mindfulness-Based Mentoring: A Focus on Students from Pre-K to Higher Education Attend this webinar to...

Early Childhood Trauma and Self-Inflicted Injury: Building Trust

Center for Educational Improvement

Aug 9, 20182 min read

Early Childhood Trauma and Self-Inflicted Injury: Building Trust

By Suzan Mullane, CEI Research Associate and Faculty The number of children who experience tremendous horror in the first years of life...

Center for Educational Improvement

Jul 23, 20182 min read

Yoga Games

By: Madison Rogas, CEI Intern Asana Games Asana, or pose, games are great ways to get preschoolers up and moving and teaches them to be...

Center for Educational Improvement

Jun 11, 20183 min read

Summer Yoga Camps

By Madison Rogas, CEI Intern Well, it does– summer yoga camps for youth are popping up around the U.S. as opportunities that encourage...

Supporting Secure Attachment and Self-Regulation through Mindfulness in Traumatized Children

Center for Educational Improvement

May 15, 20184 min read

Supporting Secure Attachment and Self-Regulation through Mindfulness in Traumatized Children

By Dana Asby, CEI Intern Consequences of Erratic Parent Behavior and Insecure Attachment Attachment is a how children use their...

Presentation on Grit & Resiliency at NAESP

Center for Educational Improvement

May 12, 20181 min read

Presentation on Grit & Resiliency at NAESP

Other speakers include Daniel Pink, Sean Covey, and Salman Khan

S-CCATE Validation Study Ends- Final Award Winners

Center for Educational Improvement

Apr 12, 20182 min read

S-CCATE Validation Study Ends- Final Award Winners

By Christine Mason From October 2017- April 2018, CEI conducted a validation study of our School – Compassionate Culture Analytic Tool...

Compassionate School Culture: Add Your Voice – Respond by March 22

Center for Educational Improvement

Mar 12, 20182 min read

Compassionate School Culture: Add Your Voice – Respond by March 22

Click here to begin the survey. Principals, please forward to your teachers to respond. We welcome responses from K-8 teachers We are...

A Teacher’s Appeal to the Heart – Does Spirituality Have a Place in Schools?

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...

Ontario Principals’ Council Now Supporting Compassion Validation Study

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 9, 20182 min read

Practice Gratitude this Valentine’s Day

By Joanna Marzano, CEI Intern Editor’s Note: Teachers and princip I am sure at some point in your life someone has advised you to ‘listen...

Poverty – What is a Compassionate Response?

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 31, 20182 min read

Mindfulness and Maslow

By Marah Barrow, CEI Intern What if there was a way for students to come to terms with their needs and maturely express those needs to...