Catherine Leahy-Brine Educational Consultants, Inc.

About Catherine Leahy Brine Educational Consultants, Inc.
Through Fitchburg State College, 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.

Graduate Courses

Courses are offered in several ways. Since the Fall of 2000, the Fitchburg State College 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 College.

Each course is scheduled for a minimum of 37.5 hours.

The cost of each Fitchburg State College 3 graduate credit course offered through
Catherine Leahy Brine Educational Consultants is $600.00.

Pre-Registration is strongly advised.

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

Brockton - Holiday Inn
Westgate Mall - Brockton (Exit 18 towards Brockton off of 24)

SPED8017 Specialized Reading Approaches
Mondays, June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27 4:30-10PM
K. Crowley

Dedham- Vinny T's of Boston
233 Elm Street - Dedham (Exit 15 off of Route 128)

EDLM8020 Law for the Educator
Thursdays, April 9, 16, 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28 4:30-10PM
K. Smith

EDUC7000 The Effective Teaching of Informational Text: Reading Across the Content Areas
Saturdays, April 18, May 2,9, 16, 30 9AM-5PM
Erickson

EDUC8650 Advanced Strategies and Approaches to Teaching Critical Thinking Skills Across the Content Areas
April Vacation Week- April 20- 24 (9AM-5PM) This class does meet on the Monday Holiday
A. Erickson

EDUC7000 Attentional Issues in the Inclusion Classroom
Tuesdays, April 28, 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9 4:30PM-10PM
Salk/DiBona

EDUC8310 Advanced Research in Education
Mondays, May 4, 11, 18, June 1, 8, 15, 22 5PM-10:30PM
K. Spaulding

EDLM8030 Public School Finance
Thursdays, June 4, 11, 18, July 9, 16, 23, 30 4:30-10PM
F. Sambucetti

EDUC7000 Psychology Of Learning
Saturdays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 11 9AM-5PM
Salk/DiBona

EDUC7000 Effective Literacy Instruction Across the Disciplines
Thursdays, June 11, 18, 25, July 9, 16, 23, 30 4:30PM-10PM
Alschuler/Laurino

EDUC7000 Literacy through Poetry Across the Content Areas
Monday-Friday July 13-17 9AM-5PM
C. Hayes

EDUC7000 Succeeding with the Resistant Student
Monday-Friday July 27-July 31 9AM-5PM
J. Schectman

HYANNIS-HOLIDAY INN
1127 Route 132

EDUC7000 Attentional Issues in the Inclusion Classroom
Sunday-Thursday June 28-July 2 9AM-5PM
Salk/DiBona

MARSHFIELD - FURNACE BROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL
500 Furnace Street - Marshfield (directly off of Route 139)

EDUC7400 Contemporary Issues in Education
Saturdays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 11 9AM-5PM
G. Benedict

WEYMOUTH - BRINE OFFICES and CLASSROM SPACE
74 Pleasant Street - So. Weymouth (Columbian Square) Park in the back.

EDUC7000 Advanced Analysis of Reading Ability for the Elementary School Teacher
EDUC7000 Advanced Seminar in the Instruction of Reading for the ECE
Thursdays, April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28,June 4,11 4:30-10PM
K. Sennett

EDUC7630 Learning Disabilities and Instructional Techniques***New Course***
Saturdays, May 2, 9, 16, 30, June 6 9AM-5PM
R. Clarke

EDUC7000 Terror in the Name of God
Tuesdays, May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9, 16 4:30-10PM
G. Erickson

EDLM8040 Curriculum Leadership and Evaluation
Saturdays, May 16, 30, June 6, 13, 20 9AM-5PM
K. Spaulding

EDUC7000 Teaching Responsible Behavior
Sundays, May 17, 31, June 7, 14, 21 9AM-5PM
Cavaca/Kirrane

EDUC7400 Contemporary Issues in Education
Saturdays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 11 9AM-5PM
M. McCuiston

EDLM8005 Foundations of Educational Administration
Thursday, June 25(5-10PM) Saturdays, June 27, July 11, 18, 25 9AM-5PM
Brine/Erickson

PDEVTBA Managing Differentiation: Response to Intervention
Monday-Friday July 6-July 10 9AM-5PM
Salk/DiBona

EDUC7004 Cooperative Learning Across the Content Areas
Monday-Friday July 20-24 9AM-5PM
C. Brine

ON-LINE COURSES
All of the Catherine Leahy Brine on-line courses are asynchronous. 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 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 college 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 fee for all on-line courses. Total Tuition for on-line classes is $620.00.

EDUC7000 Violence Against Children
Section One: Start Date: May 6 End Date: June 17
Section Two: Start Date: June 24 End Date: July 31
K. Sennett

EDUC7000 Adolescent Development
Section One: Start Date: May 6 End Date: June 17
Section Two: Start Date: June 24 End Date: July 31
K. Sennett

EDUC7000 The School As A Microcosm of Society *** New Course***
Section One Start Date: May 6 End Date: June 17
Section Two: Start Date: June 24 End Date: July 31
D. Lamond

EDUC7000 Multicultural Competencies
Section One: Start Date: May 6 End Date: June 17
Section Two: Start Date: June 24 End Date: July 31
D. Lamond

EDUC7000 Family Systems Theory
Section One: Start Date: May 6 End Date: June 17
Section Two: Start Date: June 24 End Date: July 31
D. Lamond

EDUC7000 History Through Film and Literature
Section One: Start Date: May 10 End Date: June 28
Section Two: Start Date: June 30 End Date: August 7
G. Erickson

EDUC7000 Advanced Investigations into Standards Based Mathematics
Online Start Date: May 12 Online End Date: June 30
Campbell/Kelly

EDUC7500 Curriculum Design and Implementation for Multi-Needs Populations
Start Date: June 6 End Date: July 29
K. Spaulding

EDUC7000 Poetry Across the Curriculum ***New Course***
Start Date: June 24 End Date: August 19
M. Fairbanks

PDEV6815 Integrating Technology into the Math Curriculum
Start Date: June 18 End Date: August 7
T. Quinn

EDUC7000 Internet in the Classroom
Start Date: June 20 End Date: August 9
T. Quinn

EDUC7000 Webquest for the Educator
Start Date: June 22 End Date: August 11
T. Quinn

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