CaseNEX Resource Centers

The CaseNEX 21st Century Resource Center is intended to broaden the audience for the programs established in Region 4 under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant and to provide support for teachers and school leaders looking for additional resources regarding video technology and partnerships to provide school extension activities.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's E-Fund program has helped to connect all Pennsylvania Intermediate units and school districts to one another and to the Internet with high-speed technology. Governor Rendell signed Act 183 in 2004, establishing the E-Fund to help school districts without access to high-speed Internet purchase quality broadband access and service. The E-Fund grants have helped schools acquire telecommunications services, hardware, and technical assistance and provide distance education.

CaseNEX is supporting CLI's engagement in a long-term international research initiative directed at documenting instructional strategies used to deliver the Cisco Networking Academy curricula in classrooms around the world. Using video clips and instructional data collected through CaseNEX's Teaching Performance Record (TPR) from various NetAcad sites, CaseNEX is creating case-based curricula to capture and scale the next generation of PD modules for Cisco instructors.

During the 2006-07 school year, CaseNEX will build on the research initiative from the first year of the NYCBOE's Collaborative Communities of Practice project to develop of a series of ten multimedia cases that highlight "Beat the Odds" schools.

While technology holds remarkable promise to push the growth of both educators and students alike, it can be intimidating to begin the process of incorporating it in the classroom. This resource center provides support for teachers who want to deepen their understanding and ability to transform learning through the use of technology.

GEAR UP aims to make college and other post-secondary options more attainable for low income and underserved kids. Targeting those kids in need and identifying their issues isn't tough, but helping them see themselves moving beyond the history of their families and neighborhoods is much harder. The realities of these students lives just don't match up with the images they see of successful students, so they wind up saying, "Yeah, but that's not me. My life is nothing like that." When these preconceived notions are combined with a lack of information and resources, the challenge to motivate and engage these students becomes even greater.

H.E.L.P. (Hip Hop as an Educational Literacy Program) is a supplemental reading program designed to address the needs of deficient readers particularly between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. This Resource Center provides educators with resources to implement H.E.L.P. in their classrooms and also serves as a valuable tool for teachers who understand the importance of connecting to their students' lives and interests.

School leaders must provide guidance and feedback to teachers in order to help them continue to grow professionally and positively affect student learning. This resource center provides administrators with the tools they need to make observations meaningful learning opportunities for teachers. Additional teacher resources help strengthen classroom planning and assessment strategies.

Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, established in 1975 and located in New York City, is the educational cornerstone of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. It is the leading organization in developing skills of observation, imagination, and creativity through guided encounters with the visual and performing arts.

The CaseNEX Magnet Schools Resource Center is intended to share the vital knowledge that schools in Region 4 obtained as a result of the Magnet Schools grant and to provide additional information to teachers and school leaders looking for resources regarding the primary grant themes: partnerships with community organizations; instructional technology; integration of children with language and learning needs; parent recruitment, involvement, and outreach efforts; and program sustainability.

The MDCPS Resource Center is intended to assist teachers, administrators, and other instructional personnel to address the district's core values of excellence, integrity, equity, and citizenship through systematic case-based study. To that end, the resource center is organized around the five core propositions of the National Board for Professional Teaching®.

During the next three years, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), Microsoft, and CaseNEX will work together to develop a series of case studies based on Classrooms for the Future (CFF) and Project 720. These case studies—in the areas of technology integration in math and English language arts, project-based learning, differentiation, and coaching—are aimed at capturing school reform and technology integration programs in Pennsylvania high schools. The studies will become part of a "High School Reform" professional development program for school leaders and teachers across the state.

In this portal, New York City school networks 4 and 20 can access customized professional development to suppoprt their data-driven inquiry processes. All resources are based on the NYCDOE 2006-2007 Quality Review and Progress Report findings.

The NYC Community Resource Center is intended to assist teachers, administrators, and community members in using data-driven inquiry to address the needs of the whole child, build sustainable relationships amongst key school/community stake-holders, address accountability and instructional concerns, and give students a voice. New York City Community Learning Support Organizations and related schools can use case studies, ancillary readings, and critical perspectives to explore these different facets of development. They can also, however, request customized professional development.

This resource center was created for teachers and administrators with the Orange County Public School System. The instructor section of the site is dedicated to teachers exploring the nine instructional strategies of Marzano and Pickering. The other section of the website is focused on five leadership texts and is intended to assist those who are currently administrators or who strive to take on administrative positions. Additionally, there is a "request customized professional development" link in the resource center, allowing teachers and administrators to request further assistance. (login required: ocps/demo)

The Peters Group and CaseNEX invite you to capture, inspire, and teach your students using methods developed by Stephen Peters, author of Teaching to Capture and Inspire All Learners, Inspired to Learn, and Do You Know Enough About Me to Teach Me?, and his nationally renowned Gentlemen's and Ladies' Clubs.

The Plano Resource Center was created for Plano Independent School District in Plano, Texas. This resource center gives district teachers and administrators unlimited access to the virtual library resources, critical perspectives, and case studies. In addition, short online courses, facilitated by PISD staff, are available at scheduled times throughout the year.

This resource center contains materials supporting media specialists and classroom teachers as they work together to boost literacy achievement in their schools. Materials focusing on evaluating and selecting reading incentive programs, boosting family involvement, collaborative teaching, and successful technology integration support educators in this important work.

Small Learning Communities (SLCs) support students by creating interdisciplinary teaching teams focused on building collaboration, increasing student responsibility, enhancing social development, and improving student achievement. This resource center details the benefits of SLCs for teachers and students, helps educators anticipate the challenges they may face when creating SLCs, and provides support materials for creating and sustaining SLCs.

The CaseNEX Teaching American History Resource Center is intended to broaden the audience for the work done by Region 4 under the Teaching American History grant and to provide additional support for teachers looking for primary source materials, lesson plans, local resources, and background knowledge to enhance teaching and learning in their classrooms.

The TPR is a complete professional development system. Developed by faculty and students at the University of Virginia, the TPR offers data collectors a valid, reliable, useful method to collect information on the teaching practices. Based on the latest educational research, the TPR describes the extent to which teachers behave in ways that influence student academic learning, involvement in classes, and motivation.

The Teaching Performance Record (TPR) is part of a complete professional development system for teachers. Created by researchers at the University of Virginia, the TPR offers a valid, reliable, proper, and useful method to collect information on teaching and student in-class behavior. Based on the latest educational research, the TPR describes the extent to which teachers behave in ways that influence students' academic learning and their intellectual involvement in classes. The system produces informative reports on classroom practices, which can serve as professional development targets for individual teachers and for whole faculties.

Recent legislation in Portugal has precipitated the need to have certified school leaders in both public and private schools. In collaboration with the Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education, CaseNEX is supporting UAL's efforts to design a licensure program for aspiring and existing Portuguese principals that will provide the requisite knowledge, skills, and understandings to effectively lead and manage a school.

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) developed the Young Scholars initiative to increase the proportion of historically underrepresented students in its K-8 gifted programs. In this model, school administrators, teachers, and GT resource teachers work together to nurture Young Scholars and prepare them for more challenging and rigorous courses.l.