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CEI’s Final Technology Guidelines
By Christine Mason Last year CEI held a contest to update CEI’s Technology Guidelines for Principals. Alleta Baltes won the contest and headed a team that worked with CEI staff to finalize guidelines...
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Heart Beaming Certification
Are you interested in introducing CEI’s Heart Beaming in your classrooms, but uncertain of your ability to teach yogic breathing and basic heart beaming? CEI is dedicated to promoting the benefits of...
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Careful the Things You Say
By Amber Nicole Dilger, CEI Associate In Stephen Sondheim’s musical, Into the Woods, there’s a haunting song that warns us: Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the things you do,...
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CEI Becomes a Pioneer in the Children’s Wellbeing Intiative
CEI is overjoyed to announce that our “Heart-Centered 21st Century Learning” project has been named a Pioneer in the Children’s Well-Being Initiative! We have been invited into the inner council of...
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CEI Presents with P21 at July 2016 Principals’ Conference
By Mahnaz Ahrary, CEI Intern, and Christine Mason Visioning. Dr. Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director, joined Dr. Helen Soule, Executive Director of Partnership for the 21st Century (P21), and a...
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Where is Your School Headed? Dissolve Your Problems & Be an Outlier
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Do You Even Want to Dream? This week and next, after a summer of play, students are headed back to school. Principals and teachers have been gearing up for...
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Tools to Implement 21st Century Practices: A CEI Survey
Christine Mason and Brogan Murphy, CEI Intern How can CEI assist principals and teachers in integrating 21st Century practices in their schools? In July, CEI conducted a brief online survey to help us...
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CEI Partners -The Collaboration Nation Survey
CEI has taken on a new research effort! We are partnering with Collaboration Nation to uncover how collaboration skills are taught in schools and what more needs to be done. More and more in the...
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National Call for Inclusive Values
CEI supports this call for inclusivity The following organizations have sent out a national call for inclusivity and the banishment of fear in our schools: The School Superintendents Association (AASA)...
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Free Public Education is the Backbone of Democracy
By Christine Mason Historically, education in the US has served multiple functions. One of the important functions has been providing an access to knowledge and learning and a pathway to college or...
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We Are Lacking a Realistic New Vision for Education
By Christine Mason and Maud Schaafsma 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 come. Peter Senge, the...
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Education’s Role in Nurturing Children in Finland
By Rachel Kelly, CEI Intern While the education system in the United States has created more competitive standardized tests and strict guidelines to ensure that American students keep up with the rest...
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ESSA, Historical Antecedents & the Future of Education
By Rachel Kelly, CEI Intern Where are we headed with ESSA (the Every Student Succeeds Act) with the Trump Administration? Will ESSA bring about the much needed relief that will help teachers and...
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CEI to Present at Principals Conference July 11 in Philadelphia
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Mindfulness: Healing Trauma with the School Compassionate Culture Analytic Tool in Heart Centered Learning Communities Tuesday, July 11, 7:30-8:45 am, Room...
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To complement CEI’s upcoming book on Mindfulness and Heart Centered Learning written by Christine Mason, Michele Rivers Murphy and Yvette Jackson, Drs. Mason and Rivers Murphy are offering a series of...
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Deadline Extended to Jan. 29: Participate in School Compassionate Culture...
Paul Liabenow, President of CEI and Executive Director of MEMSPA, the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association, in describing the need for this measure of social emotional...
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6 Days to Respond: Help Validate our School Compassionate Culture Survey
Please take 12-15 minutes to help validate our school climate scale. Our sincere thanks to teachers from 21 states, DC, and one Latin American Country who have already responded. $750 in prizes to be...
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Last 7 days! Please take 15 min. for Compassion
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Where do you see schools in 5 to 10 years? What matters to you? If you care about children and what schools can do to help them, please take 12-15 minutes to...
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11 Award Winners and More Opportunities – Validation Study Continuing
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director and Paul Liabenow, CEI President A huge, huge thanks to all who have responded to our Compassionate Schools Validation Study. Round 1 ended yesterday and we...
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2019?
By Christine Mason 2019. 19 years into the 21st Century. During the past few weeks I have learned bulletpoint journaling. Have you tried it? If I am not careful I will forgo my tasks at hand and spend...
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