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 Academic Technology at Lesley University (CAT) is a joint department of The Office of Information Technology and the Office of the Provost, created to provide on-going academic technology support for faculty, and academic divisions.

The Center for Children, Families and Public Policy at Lesley University is dedicated to establishing high quality programs in the education and care of children, youth and families from diverse backgrounds. The Center places emphasis on acquiring and maintaining cultural competencies, providing quality classroom instruction, creating just and equitable learning communities, and eliminating the achievement gap. The Center seeks to support educators and other school professionals in their efforts to become scholarly practitioners, work effectively with families, and improve their practice throughout their careers.

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 specialitsts. Through a variety of professional development contexts such as insitutes, 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.

The Hood Children's Literacy Project provides professional development for teachers, literacy materials to enrich the schools' resources,trained literacy tutors to work within the classrooms, and research initiatives.

The Institute for Mind, Body and Spirituality at Lesley University was established for the purpose of promoting inquiry, training professionals, conducting research, developing new programs and providing leadership in the area of mind-body health and education.

The Learning Lab @ Lesley is an interactive learning and assessment service for children, adolescents and adults with learning difficulties and disabilities, ADHD, and academic and social challenges. We offer services to assist children and their families.

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