Flexible Implementation
Educators and administrators participate in CaseNEX courses to enhance skills,
maintain certification, and earn university credits. Courses are available for professional
development units/continuing education units, as well as graduate credit through our
partner universities Hampton University, Western Oregon University, and University of
Virginia. The online programs afford flexibility and convenience to busy educators
and efficiency to school leaders. A "train-the-trainer" model allows school systems
to integrate entire CaseNEX programs, thus building professional development capacity
at the local level - a critical ingredient of modern school reform initiatives.
CaseNEX also provides expert course instructors and monitors with advanced degrees
in their content area and significant classroom and leadership experience.
Read a few successful CaseNEX implementation stories:
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DeKalb County School System (DCSS), Georgia
Overcoming the constraints of face-to-face professional development
DCSS, a large metropolitan school district reaching almost 100,000 students, was faced with a significant professional development challenge-the state of Georgia mandated a four-course endorsement program for teachers working with gifted students. Increased demand for the endorsement exceeded the capacity of any face-to-face professional development program. Seeing this need, the county partnered with CaseNEX to develop and implement online versions of the four-course sequence. At the completion of the program's first year, the CaseNEX gifted program exceeded DCSS' original goals. Over 200 teachers enrolled, representing an increase of over 200%. Seeing the success of the gifted program, DCSS decided to partner with CaseNEX to create an online English as a Second Language (ESOL) endorsement program as well.
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Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), Virginia
Building tomorrow's leader through systematic change
Funded by a Wallace Foundation grant, the Learning, Empowering, Assessing, and Developing (LEAD) Fairfax program seeks to identify, select, and train tomorrow's school-based administrators in FCPS. The partnership with CaseNEX develops ongoing training to enhance student achievement through systemic leadership change. Participating interns were among the first to be hired as new assistant principals and the sitting principals commented on their ability to apply theory to practice, their depth of understanding of current administrative topics, and their broad perspective on educational leadership issues. Now in its second year of partnership, CaseNEX and LEAD Fairfax have developed a model program with the demonstrated capacity to build tomorrow's leaders.
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Orange County Public Schools (OCPS), Florida
Defining solutions using innovative strategies
Leveraging the proven success of the CaseNEX train-the-trainer model, OCPS is implementing an extensive blended (face-to-face and online) training program. Building upon this momentum, the district expects to offer a wide range of courses, implement a customized program for the Orange County Aspiring Leaders Program and provide an equity and diversity program for fifty Orange County principals.
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Hancock County, Georgia
Facilitating school reform
Facing schools that did not meet Adequate Yearly Progress, Hancock County partnered with CaseNEX to offer a specialized support program that will include ongoing technical assistance, as well as targeted professional development for teachers. CaseNEX will provide a comprehensive, year-long system of support to guide schools through the schoolwide program planning process using a combination of face-to-face workshops and ongoing online support. In addition, CaseNEX will provide assistance in identifying and aligning professional development activities to support the staff as they implement the goals and strategies stated with schoolwide plans.
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Stafford County Public Schools, Virginia
Targeted professional development based on assessed needs
Confronted with an influx of new special education teachers hired in the district, Stafford County contracted CaseNEX to implement a comprehensive solution that includes both online assessment tools for teachers coupled with research-based, customized professional development. Addressing identified needs suggested by the assessment data, CaseNEX will work with Stafford to offer a customized special learner course which is the type of job-embedded professional development required by NCLB.
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Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), Baltimore, Maryland
Comprehensive professional development
BCPS first piloted online courses with CaseNEX over four years ago to offer diversity training via the Internet. In addition to offering existing CaseNEX courses, BCPS and CaseNEX teamed up to develop the Education That is Multicultural course to meet a Maryland state requirement. All courses offered are approved by the Maryland State Department of Education and eligible for graduate credit. The program has grown from a 2 courses a year to over 20 a year in numerous content areas with expected student enrollment for the current school year to exceed 1000 participants.
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