Catherine Leahy-Brine Educational Consultants, Inc.

Winter / Spring, 2012 Graduate Courses

Catherine Leahy Brine, Educational Consultants, Inc.
Phone: 781-331-8826
Fax: 781-337-6152
www.catherineleahybrine.com

About Catherine Leahy Brine Educational Consultants, Inc.
Through Fitchburg State University, our company is proud to offer high quality, long-standing, time-tested professional advancement programs for educators. Each instructor has been very carefully selected based on their authentic classroom experience and their content and pedagogical expertise. All pride themselves on the ability to engage the adult learner through a hands-on approach to learning that includes the modeling of effective and varied instructional techniques and strategies. Additionally, each course and syllabus developed by our own instructors has been carefully designed using as the guideposts the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks as well as state and national professional standards.

A participant who was enrolled in one of our instructor's week-end courses once remarked, "We learn it on Sunday and use it on Monday!" That student's comment succinctly summarized the guiding philosophy of our company. We invite you to enroll in our programs or courses and experience this for yourselves.

Courses are offered in several ways. Since the Fall of 2000, the Fitchburg State University site-based Master of Education Program in Curriculum and Teaching has been offered through Catherine Leahy Brine Educational Consultants, Inc. Many of the courses offered by our company are part of that program. Additionally, Catherine Leahy-Brine Educational Consultants has been approved by the Massachusetts Department of Education (now known as the Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education) as a district-based Initial and Professional Licensure Program in many, varying areas of certification. For more information on any of our programs please visit our web site: www.catherineleahybrine.com or www.cfbrine.com

Finally, all of the courses advertised in this brochure may also be taken by
non-matriculating students for the purpose of recertification and professional
development. All graduate credit is awarded through Fitchburg State University.

The cost of each Fitchburg State University 3 graduate credit course offered through
Catherine Leahy Brine Educational Consultants is $600.00. Online courses are
$620.00. Students matriculated in one of our licensure or Fitchburg State off
campus degree programs pay a different tuition rate.

Pre-Registration is strongly advised.
To Pre-Register, call 781-331-8826 or Pre-Register on-line at
www.catherineleahybrine.com

EDUC7000 Psychology of Learning: Inclusion for All Students
Wednesdays, Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 29, Mar. 14, 28, April 11 (5PM start)
Pelissey

EDUC 8134 The Effective Teaching of Informational Text Across the Content Areas
Saturdays, January 7, 21, 28, February 4, 11 9AM-5PM
Erickson

EDUC 7000 The Psychology of Learning for the Inclusion of All Students
Wednesdays, Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 29, Mar. 14, 28, Ap. 11 (5:00 start)
S. Denty

EDUC 7000 Managing Classroom Behavior
Tuesdays, Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 28 (5:00 start)
A. Erickson

EDUC 7000 Succeeding with the Resistant Student
Tuesdays, Jan. 24, Feb. 7, Mar. 6, 20, Ap. 3 (5:00 start)
J. Schechtman

EDUC8650 Adv. Strategies and Approaches to Teaching Critical Thinking Skills Across the Content Areas
Week Long April 16-20 (9:00 - 5:00)
A. Erickson

Weymouth- Brine Offices and Classroom Space
74 Pleasant Street - So. Weymouth (Columbian Square) Park in the back of building.

EDUC7630 Learning Disabilities and Instructional Techniques
Saturdays, January 7, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11 (9AM-5PM)

EDLM8010 Human Resource and Personnel Administration
Saturdays, January 7, 21, 28, February 4, 11 (9AM-5PM)
Goodale

EDUC7400 Contemporary Issues in Education
Wednesdays, Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 29, Mar. 14, 28, Ap. 11 (5:00 start)
Benedict

SPED8300 Language Development, Differences and Disorders
Thursdays, January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, March 1, 8 (5:00 start)
Eidlin

EDLM8050 Research in Educational Leadership
Hybrid Class: Two face to face sessions on January 19 and February 16 (5PM)
Spaulding

EDUC8310 Advanced Research in Education
Mondays, January 23, 30, February 13, 27, March 12, 26, April 9 (5:00 start)
Spaulding

EDUC7004 Cooperative Learning Across the Content Areas
February Vacation Week: Feb. 20- 24 (9AM-5PM)
Brine

READ7017 Psychology of Reading
Saturdays, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 (9AM-5PM)
Selines

SPED8017 Specialized Reading Approaches
Saturdays, May 5, 19, June 2, 9, 16 (9AM-5PM)
Selines (This will transcript as a summer class)

ON-LINE COURSES
Most of the Catherine Leahy Brine on-line courses are asynchronous unless noted. We must receive your pre-registration for the course at least 14 days prior to the start date. Pre-registrations for on-line classes should be filled out through our web site http://www.catherineleahybrine.com. Once you have pre-registered for a course, you will be e-mailed the official college registration form. This on-line registration is due back in the Brine Office with tuition no later than ten days before the listed start date. Students will be entered into the college BLACKBOARD System. On-line course registration deadlines MUST be met. Access information for Blackboard will be sent to the student directly from the university via e-mail. Be careful not to delete this e-mail inadvertently. If you have taken an on-line class through Fitchburg in a previous semester, your username and password will remain the same. There is a $20 Blackboard/technology fee for all on-line courses. Total Tuition for on-line classes is $620.00. There is no refund for an on-line withdrawal once the class has begun.

MTED7000 Advanced Investigations into Standards Based Mathematics for the ECE and Elem. Teacher
Start Date: January 25
Campbell/Kelly

EDUC7500 Curriculum Design and Implementation for Multi Needs Populations
Start Date: February 1
Spaulding

EDUC7000 Classroom Management and Community Building for Early Childhood Education
Start Date: February 15
V. Elliott-O'Leary

EDUC 7000 The Effective Integration of Technology Across the Content Areas
Start Date: March 1
Forge