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 Christine Mason The CEI Heart Centered 21st Century Rubric is a research-based approach for planning, assessment, and monitoring...

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

By Nick Jones, CEI Intern This fall marks the first school year that ethnic and racial minority students are the majority in public...

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

Webinar Description. The NAESP Rigor seminar was developed with an eye toward providing information about rigor in the classroom,...

By Christine Mason. I have long considered ‘rigor’ to be the sweet spot of the Common Core State Standards.  In fact, by implementing the...

And from another author: “Seven miles offshore we meet our first ice. Closer in it is everywhere; there is often one floe ten yards to...

When a difficult question is posed, do you look left or right while thinking about your response? Do you look up or down as you consider...

By Joseph Jay Williams, Doctoral Candidate University of California Berkeley, Research Assistant CEI. Finland has received a great deal...

I am participating this weekend in a conference on Learning and the Brain. Actually multi-tasking with my iPad as I listen to lectures...

I have been focused recently on best practices in education and have been reflecting on some of the teachers and schools that have...

Could it be that providing a NCLB waiver will result in greater rigor?  What will states propose to do to demonstrate that they are...

How closely is the future of schools correlated with the future for all globally? Any guesses? What are the 5 top trends in education...