If you teach in a Catholic school because you believe in offering students something more, then check out the something more we offer you with our Saint. Mary’s Master of Arts in Education—Catholic Leadership program. Our faculty teaches the technique, skills, and research of conventional programs, but infused with the theology and spirituality that recognize your work is not just a job, but a calling.

"Not a day that goes by that I don't use something in my classroom that I learned while going through the Saint Mary's University Catholic Leadership program. In theory and in practice, the classes were immediately useful and relevant, and continue to be so to this day. Though I graduated almost two years ago, I still keep in contact with my cohort."
	Kathleen Marek Gleich Graduate 2004

If you value both the 300-year-old tradition of the Christian Brothers, and the best in current research, teaching techniques and technology, consider Saint Mary’s Master of Arts in Education—Catholic Leadership.

• Learn in a 12 to 15-person cohort with other Catholic school educators
• Classes meet in a local Catholic school
• $100 per credit scholarship from Saint Mary’s University to every student in this program—because we believe in you
• Offered every year—no need to wait to get started
• Enhance your teaching effectiveness while you strengthen your personal and ministerial commitment

Graduates of the Master of Arts in Education, Catholic School Leadership program are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Know all aspects of child development that affect the learning process.
2. Demonstrate appreciation for diversity and the ability to deal with diversity in all its forms in the classroom and in the community.
3. Use a variety of instructional strategies to meet the needs of an ever more diverse and changing student population.
4. Create a positive and productive learning environment for all students with whom they are working.
5. Communicate effectively in a variety of modes.
6. Plan instruction that productively meets the needs of all students for whom they are responsible.
7. Align curriculum design, assessment methods and instructional strategies.
8. Exhibit a commitment to lifelong learning and see it as a critical attribute to being a productive classroom teacher and professional.
9. Work productively in a collaborative fashion, develop positive working relationships with a wide variety of people and understand the ethical implications of their actions.
10. Cope with the changes inevitable in our society and world and assist their students in doing the same.
11. Demonstrate knowledge of designated graduation standards and have the ability to provide instruction to their students to support them in their efforts to achieve the standards.
12. Demonstrate an ability to do personal theological reflection to develop their own ethical foundations and ministerial effectiveness.