Academic Skills Center (ASC) in Pearson Hall — Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Laura Warner, Director of the ASC
“Students come in for a variety of reasons, [such as] during their transition to Andover, ninth grade, tenth grade, eleventh, and twelfth. [They come] to figure out how to manage their time, merge their calendars, or find a good way of keeping track of everything. It could be organization and time management. Sometimes, we only meet once or twice to give some ideas and tips. Other students, we might meet with on a more regular basis and that would be around continued strategies to use…or around digital organization: where to keep files, how to name them in a place that you could find them, how to use an iPad well, or even skills like notetaking or reading… We try to leave our conference periods open for that exact reason. People can also just come in and sit and do work. That’s usually what happens during conferences.”
Science Study Center in Gelb Science Center, Room 106 and 107 — Monday to Thursday 8 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.
Sophie Staii ’25, Biology Peer Tutor
“[Students] can just come in and do homework or ask for help, and you can work with peers here. It’s really a place [to come] if you have any questions at all about your science classes or if you just want to talk to other people about what is happening in your classes.”
Math Study Center in Morse Hall, Room 206 — Monday to Thursday 8 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.
Ani Bayramyan ’24, Math and Computer Science Peer Tutor
“I go around helping them solve some problems and understand some challenging concepts in those areas… There is always a teacher supervisor, and if sometimes a tutor doesn’t know how to solve a problem, then teachers can step in and help the students with the problem. Or, if a student has a particular teacher that they want to work with, then they can just come to the math study center and continue working with [that teacher] on that problem.”
Writing Center in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, Tang Institute — Monday to Thursday 8 p.m. – 9:15 p.m., or by appointment through andover.mywconline.com
Laura Dzubay, English Teaching Fellow
“Students can come to the writing center at any stage of the writing process, and for any subject area that they are doing a writing assignment for. So it could be very early in the drafting process if they are working on brainstorming or coming up with an outline. Or it could be that they have written a full draft already, and they just want to go over it one last time and get another pair of eyes on it… Peer tutors don’t generally change the writing themselves. It’s mainly meant to be a conversation between the tutor and the writer so that the writer can make the changes on their own and come up with ideas for the changes that they want to make. However, the peer tutor can ask them questions, read through the paper, and share things that they think might be useful to look at or to dig deeper into to gain more clarity.”
