Center for Academic Achievement

Doble Hall, Suite 220

617.349.8459  caa@lesley.edu

617.349.8324 Fax

Dr. Daniel Newman

Executive Director of Disability Support Services

ADA/504 Coordinator

Lesley University - Disability Support Services

Anhar Mulla

Associate Director of Tutoring/Academic Coaching Services

Lesley University - Tutoring and Support

The Center for Academic Achievement (CAA) houses Disability Support Services and Tutoring Programs. The CAA encourages students to become independent, successful, and confident learners. Central to the CAA’s mission is the belief that students have diverse ways of learning related to their cognitive, experiential, and cultural differences and with support can reach their academic goals. The Center’s professional staff specialize in supporting students’ academic skill development.

Tutoring.

The CAA hires, trains, and supervises, current Lesley students from graduate and undergraduate programs to provide peer tutoring, studio guides and academic coaching to all Lesley students. The CAA also partners with Brainfuse, an online tutoring platform, to deliver online content support by professional tutors to supplement its tutoring services.

Peer tutoring, studio guides and coaching promote a collaborative learning environment in which students work as partners with their peers to gain a deeper educational experience at Lesley.

• Peer tutors provide content tutoring across many fields as well as guidance to develop better writing, reading, math, research, study and organizational skills. Students can work on specific course requirements such as papers, projects, presentations, and exam preparation. Selected tutors work with students to prepare for the Communications and Literacy reading and writing subtests of the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure (MTEL).

• LA+D peer studio guides support students with course work, from writing their first papers and artist statements, to excelling in content sequences such as art history. Studio guides also support studio classes by providing project management, developing insight into the creative process and preparing for critiques.

• Peer coaches build relationships with students to promote their agency, self-understanding, growth, effectiveness, and persistence at Lesley and beyond.

• The CAA’s Professional Tutor assists graduate and doctoral students with writing assignments including literature reviews, research papers and thesis/dissertation projects.

In person tutoring is available to all students currently enrolled in Lesley classes. Peer support is offered by-appointment during weekday (including evening), and weekend hours during the Fall and Spring semesters. Weekday (including some evening) hours are available during January and Summer terms. Students may also come in for “drop-in” meetings with tutors (based on availability).

Live tutors are also available to students through Brainfuse (www.brainfuse.com) for content tutoring in a variety of college level subjects.

All Lesley students can submit drafts of writing assignments for Lesley courses to onlinetutoring@lesley.edu for asynchronous review. This service is also available through Brainfuse.

All further inquiries about the tutoring and academic coaches should be sent via email to caa@lesley.edu or amulla@lesley.edu.