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CEI Visits Chesterfield Academy
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern Last month, the CEI team of Dr. Chris Mason, Liz Parry, and Sue Mullane visited Chesterfield Academy to offer solutions on how to integrate engaging STEM learning moments in...
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Arne Duncan Offers Insight into Challenges of Testing
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern In a recent Washington Post opinion piece by Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education calls for a balanced approach to 21st education reform, in particular, the ever so...
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Learning from the Student’s View
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern Much of the conversation on teaching relies on the observation of educators and administrators – those leading instruction, not the students. Students may answer surveys every...
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Many Parents, Teachers Think Common Core Testing Is Overwhelming
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Intern The debate concerning the implementation of Common Core testing standards is now shifting from policy makers and researchers to an increasing number of parents and...
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Mind & Life International Symposium with the Dalai Lama
By Christine Mason Have you ever attended a conference and felt as if you had been transported to another world? In my search to learn more about mindfulness and contemplation from perspectives that...
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Do We Really Wanna Take a Selfie: Social Media Use in the Classroom
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Education Policy and Communications Intern Snap a selfie… on Instagram then create a self-portrait and repost it. Create a Facebook page…to promote the upcoming novel your class...
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CEI Gives Thanks
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director Thanksgiving! CEI continues to thrive due to a dedicated team, your interest and support, and those who are venturing with us into the future. I am...
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Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature...
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Education Policy and Communications Intern Arizona is making strides to improve its instructional practices for teachers and students, but not without political push back related...
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CEI “Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use” Competition
By Christine Mason RESPOND BY DECEMBER 18, 5 PM EST to Win $100 gift card. Runners up: 2nd Place: $50 gift card; 3rd place: $25 gift card. Early in 2014 we introduced CEI ‘s 21st Century Technology...
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Ebola, 5 Million Out-of-School Children, and Instability
By Danait Berhe, CEI Intern Ebola and African Schools A ten year-old, Amos Johnson, who is in second grade, at James. E. Green Elementary School in Logan Town, Liberia is one of the children who are...
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Innumeracy and Integrating Math across the Curriculum
By Lindsay Reeves, CEI Intern, and Christine Mason Math in its basic form, even with newer standards and efforts, is still thought of as being an independent discipline. The need to integrate it...
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Save the Date: February 5, 2015, CEI STEAM Learning Showcase
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math (STEAM) Leaning Showcase Explore, Learn, Share and Collaborate Time: 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Location: Potomac Preparatory Public Charter School, Washington,...
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Race, Courage and Teaching Tolerance
by Danait Berhe, CEI Intern All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. ~...
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2015: Breathing Life into Dreams
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director 2015. What will it bring? Where are we headed? In the U.S. the stock market is up, the political landscape is shifting, gas prices are lower, and America...
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Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that...
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Baltes Wins CEI’s First Ever “Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use”...
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Education Policy and Communications Intern Alleta Baltes is the 2015 winner of CEI’s first annual Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use Competition. The contest asked...
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The Person and the Profession
By Vanessa Abrahams, CEI Intern Hiding behind boxes of produce was futile. As a tall and very talkative fourth grader, I didn’t blend well with the stalks of celery and assorted dressings. It would be...
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CEI Innovations Ship- Classrooms of the Future – at NAESP Conference
By Christine Mason The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) will be holding its Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA this summer — June 30-July 2. CEI is excited to announce...
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Community Schools as a Model for Heart Centered Education
In the April 2015 Wow!Ed Newsletter an article by Dr. Michele Rivers Murphy, a CEI Research Associate, addressed Crossing the Boundaries of Home, School and Community with Compassion Courage and...
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The Kinetic Classroom: The Pedal-Desk, ADHD, and the Mind-Body Connection
By Richard Ooge, CEI Intern The modern classroom is evolving. Advanced technologies are very quickly finding their way into the learning process but these technologies have been largely focused on...
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