By Grace Rubenstein, CEI Intern Engaging, fun, hands-on experiences. Makerspaces serve as a balancing act against the stifling nature of...

By Drew Altizer, CEI Intern Finding Time. If you’re still worried about not having enough time, try working out before school. It sounds...

By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Associate and Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Are you incorporating music in your classrooms,...

By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Use of 21st Century Practices. For the purposes of the survey, CEI considered 21st Century...

By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Most days, as I engage in yoga, I automatically feel gratitude for how I have learned to...

By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Intern. The feeling of being safe and secure allows us to take risks and explore our world. This freedom to...

By Meghan Wenzel, CEI Intern and Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director What type of animal is a dog? Is ‘p’ a vowel or a consonant?...

By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Intern. The clever phrase: “neurons that fire together, wire together,” was born from a 1949 theory...

By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Intern. Is empathy a bad thing? The ability to feel someone’s pain or suffering, joy or excitement. The...

By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Intern  Chances are you have heard about mirror neurons by now, but how have you incorporated the idea of...

By Christine Mason Today more and more schools are starting to offer yoga, mindfulness, and meditation for youth and for teachers and...

This year at the summer NAESP conference in Long Beach, CEI had the privilege of hosting a session on implementing 21st century solutions...

The modern classroom is evolving. Advanced technologies are very quickly finding their way into the learning process but these...

By Christine Mason The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) will be holding its Annual Conference in Long Beach,...

December 2015. CEI needs your help to continue our work. For the next month, CEI will be able to match donations up to $2,000’”dollar for...

By Christine Mason Michele and I found ourselves surrounded by others who were thrilled to be learning more about the value of...

Why Heart Beaming®? Heart Beaming is a positive thing for youth and adults to do. It is not expensive. It does not take hours of...

So if you are like millions of Americans, and others round the world, it may be that your most common way of “doing nothing” is to plop...

By Christine Mason. As you head toward the summer and continue to plan for next year, here are a few recommendations for you, your...

By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director. My colleague, Kevin Simpson, Executive Director of KDSL, an international educational...