Centers and Institutes

The Career Resource Center provides career development and job search services to Lesley University degree candidates and alumni.

The Center for Academic Achievement offers both support and academic enrichment through peer tutoring, writing workshops, and more.

The Center for Mathematics Achievement at Lesley University is dedicated to assisting teachers in honing their mathematics content knowledge. The Center believes that teachers who have enriched their own mathematical content knowledge are better able to provide richer, more effective mathematics opportunities to their students.

The Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative at Lesley University is dedicated to providing high quality professional development to administrators, literacy coaches, classroom teachers and other literacy teachers and specialists. Through a variety of professional development contexts such as institutes, seminars, conferences and long term structures the Center supports improvement in literacy outcomes for students K-8.

The Center for Special Education is dedicated to understanding and promoting the knowledge needed by educators to improve teaching for learners with disabilities. The Center seeks to create collaborations among families, schools, and communities which make it possible for every child, adolescent, and adult to develop and learn.

No longer active, the grant-funded three-year Hood Children's Literacy Project provided professional development, literacy materials, literacy tutor training, and research initiatives. The project's publication, Currents in Literacy, covered a variety of topics from the multiple perspectives of faculty, students, and parents.

PERG specializes in using in-depth qualitative evaluation methods, combining field work in support of program implementation (formative evaluation purposes) with systematic data collection.