Center for Academic Achievement

Doble Hall, Suite 220

617.349.8459 Phone

caa@lesley.edu Email

617-649-3704 Fax

Anhar Mulla

Associate Director

Tutoring/Academic Coaching Services//Online Academic Support

Lesley University - Tutoring and Support

The Center for Academic Achievement (CAA) houses Disability Support Services and Tutoring/Academic Coaching Services. 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, tutors, academic coaches, and studio guides 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 guidance 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 Communication and Literacy reading and writing subtests of the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure (MTEL).

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

• 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 and virtual 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). Appointments can be scheduled on WCOnline.

Live tutors are also available to students through Brainfuse for content tutoring in a variety of college level subjects. The link to Brainfuse is available on every student's myLesley homepage by selecting the "Tools" icon on the left-side menu.

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. The link to Brainfuse is available on every student's myLesley homepage by selecting the "Tools" icon on the left-side menu.

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