Lesley University Papers is a collection of works completed during the Master of Education in Language and Literacy program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It includes papers on ways to support immigrant and refugee students with interrupted schooling, reflections on culturally responsive teaching, compilations of books to support and promote content literacy and discussions of research and assessment to support struggling learners. The focus of the capstone project is best practices to support vocabulary instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners.