Past Events

Join us on Tuesday, April 23, from 8:30 am to 1 pm in the James Hall Atrium for the 2024 CASE Education Summit, celebrating "100 Years of Educational Research and Practice."

This single-day conference brings together the esteemed faculty of the Rowan University College of Education, with a focus on diverse research topics encompassing K-12 & higher education, access, equity, inclusion, and AI policy.

Our distinguished keynote speaker, Dr. Bettina L. Love, the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, is renowned for her pivotal contributions to the establishment of abolitionist teaching in schools. Her address promises to provide valuable insights into the future of education. Dr. Love is also graciously signing copies of her books, which will be available to purchase at the Summit.

Throughout the event, attendees will also have the opportunity to engage with faculty presenters, delving into the latest educational research and practices. Covering a spectrum of topics, these presentations will foster dialogue and exploration, furthering our collective understanding of the evolving landscape of education.

Don't miss this unique chance to be part of a thought-provoking discussion that reflects on the past, analyzes the present, and envisions the future of education.  Join us at the 2024 CASE Education Summit as we celebrate a century of educational progress and innovation.

All session are free open to everyone.

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If you are attending the CASE Summit, please park in Lot C (behind Richard Wackar Stadium). For a campus map, click here.

Workshops

Storytelling
Presented by Dr. Zalphia Wilson-Hill
10:00 am | Room 2098
An exploration of the academic, social and emotional components that teaching a multicultural class to graduate students through storytelling as a mode of instruction creates space for all students, and the professor, to share lived experiences that facilitates cultural competence through compassion for self and others.

Exploring Disabled Teachers Practices of Tempered Radicalism in Schools
Presented by Dr. Michelle L. Damiani & Olusola Ogundola (Graduate student)
10:00 am | Room 2093
The research presents an examination of an under addressed aspect of equity in teacher diversity and inclusion in education.

Roadblocks to Supporting Parental Caregivers’ Role in Early Emotional Development Post-Abuse/Neglect: Insights and Recommendations from Caseworkers and Family Court Judges
Presented by Dr. Nicole M. Edwards
10:00 am | Room 2094
This session will focus on better ways to address pervasive inequities post-abuse/neglect by embracing contributing roles across multiple levels of a child’s ecology to lay a stronger foundation for more children. In this session we will focus on key findings from recent analyses, and discuss implications for practice, research, and policy. If tailored recommendations for strengthening readiness to promote Early Emotional Development (EED) could be embedded in reunification plans, for example, this may bolster accountability for caseworkers to initiate discussion/resource sharing and for  parents to commit to efforts intended to build their capacity for emotion coaching during foster care placements and in preparation for reunification in the earliest years of development.

A Planning and A Process Period: Examining Educator SEL as a Tier 1 Response
Presented by Dr. Kara Ieva, Dr. Jordan Beasley, Melissa Fransozi, Indra Owens, Erica Figueroa, and Sam Steen, Ph.D.
10:00 am | Atrium
This presentation invites administrators, teachers, and school counseling practitioners and researchers to learn more about using critical reflection action research to develop and evaluate the implementation of an Educator SEL group counseling program for all school staff.

Developing policies for AI: Laying the Foundations
Presented by Dr. Cecile H. Sam and Dr. Jill Perry
11:00 am | Room 2093
Educators will receive foundational knowledge needed to make good institutional policy around the usage of GenAI. The presentation focuses on 5 major components: 1. Basic overview of GenAI and how it differs from more common AI; 2. The potential benefits and limitations of GenAI; 3. Ethical considerations regarding its usage; 4. How to think of GenAI using a Policy Process framework; and 5. Personal and Public Considerations moving forward.

Black Women State Legislators: Intersectional Identities and Education Policies
Presented by Dr. Magdalena Martinez
11:00 am | Room 2098
Drawing on intersectionality and representational identity theory, in this presentation I center Black women legislators’ collective and individual experiences to examine how their experiences shape their policy ways of knowing and education policy priorities.

The Ethical use of AI and Other Technology Tools in Qualitative Research
Presented by Dr. Zeynep Isik-Ercan
11:00 am | Room 2094
This presentation will offer an ethical framework for the use of AI and other technology tools in qualitative research that still allows diverse lenses and perspectives that individual researchers bring. Best utilization recommendations and examples from tools and software that can support the research analysis process will be presented.

Meet Our Presenters

CASE Research Spotlight

2022 CASE Annual Summit

2022 Annual CASE Summit took place virtually on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. This year the theme was “Critical Race Theory: Why Now?” Featured keynote speakers included Dr. Adrienne Dixson, co-editor of CRT in Education, All God's Children Got a Song, and Dr. Josue Falaise, CEO of GOMO Educational Services. In addition, the CASE Summit featured Rowan faculty members, as well as other respected individuals in the field of education. Thank you to all the presenters and attendees!

CASE Annual Fall Forum - November 10, 2021

Thank you for attending CASE Annual Fall Forum “Race and Education”!

CASE Annual Fall Forum

About Dr. Charles Dew

Charles B. Dew is Ephraim Williams Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Williams College. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, he attended local schools and then graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia in 1954 and from Williams in 1958; he received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied under C. Vann Woodward, in 1964. He taught at Wayne State University, Louisiana State University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Virginia before returning to teach at Williams in 1977.

Professor Dew retired in 2020 following forty-three years as a member of the Williams faculty. His teaching there focused on the American South, the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the institution of slavery. His most recent book is The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade. Earlier scholarship includes: Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge; Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War; and Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Ironworks. Ironmaker to the Confederacy and Apostles of Disunion both received the Fletcher Pratt Award, given by the Civil War Roundtable of New York for the best non-fiction book on the Civil War in its year of publication, and Bond of Iron received the Elliot Rudwick Prize from the Organizations of American Historians and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.  

In a semester when many of his History Department colleagues will be on leave, he will be returning to the classroom in the spring of 2022 to teach his research seminar, HIST 456 “The Civil War & the Era of Reconstruction.”

About Adam Alvarez, Ph.D.

Dr. Adam Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education, College of Education, Rowan University. While his research aims to support all educators in K-12 settings, Dr. Alvarez is particularly interested in educators who work with children of color, children living in urban environments, and children who are exposed to violence and trauma. He uses various race-based, analytic frameworks and diverse methodological approaches to study how race and racism shape the social context of education across various settings. Featured in Theory into Practice, Equity and Excellence in Education, and Teaching Education, his scholarship contributes to a growing body of research, attempting to shift our institutional approaches toward preparing future educators and researchers to recognize and disrupt longstanding school and social inequalities. 

Dr. Alvarez teaches graduate courses, such as critical pedagogy, power and privilege, and other topics related to urban education. Additionally, Dr. Alvarez is a core faculty member in the Urban and Diverse Educational Systems, an area of concentration within Rowan’s PhD in Education program for students seeking to either specialize in urban education research or broaden their understanding of and interdisciplinary approaches to exploring race, equity, and justice across various school and social contexts. 

Dr. Alvarez is the 2021 Recipient of American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Review of Research Award. Topic: “Seeing Race in the Research on Youth Trauma and Education.” 

CASE Conversations Fall 2021

Thank you for attending CASE Conversations “Education in the Midst of a Pandemic” featuring a panel discussion with Dr. Cory Dixon, Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math Education (STEAM), Dr. Mark Silverstein, Superintendent of Glassboro Public Schools, and Dr. Zenaida Cobian, Superintendent of Penns Grove and Carneys Point Regional School District. Our panel was moderated by Dr. Adrian Barnes, Summer 2021 CASE Fellow and Coordinator of BA in Music Education. 

This conversation invited participants to think deeply about education during a pandemic and to uncover what new challenges are now a factor as students and educators across the country transition back to in-person instruction. 

2021 CASE Virtual Summit

Impact of a Pandemic and Social Injustice on Access and Equity in Education

2020-2021 CASE Conversations series

• A Professional and Personal Journey to Why
  Presenter: Dr. Lisa Vernon-Dotson
  November 2020
  
  
• Understanding the Effects of Trauma on P-12 Students
  Presenters: Dr. JoAnn Manning and Dr. Bobbie Mann
  December 2020
  
  
• Mental Health Awareness for our Black and Brown Communities and the Importance of a Well-balanced Education for Students and educators
  Presenter: Jonathan Shepherd, MD, President, Board of Directors of Black Mental Health Alliance
  February 2021
  
  
• Research Funding Opportunities in Education
  Presenter: Stephen Robishaw, MPA, Office of Proposal Development Division of University Research
  February 2021
  
  
• The Impact of Education on Hate Crimes
  Presenters: Dr. Adam Alvarez, Dr. Adrian Barnes, Dr. Kate Kedley, Dr. Anna Sun
  May 2021

2018-2019 Real Talk and Book Club Events

2018 CASE Mini-Conference 

2017 Inaugural Mini-Conference and Grand Opening Event

2017 Real Talk 

2017 Research Panel

2016 Real Talk 

American Promise film showing and discussion with filmmakers