Welcome to the ESL Assessment Consortium. The Consortium was established by members of the British Columbia Lower Mainland School Boards. Its purpose is to consider various issues related to the assessment of students who come from homes where the language spoken is not English. See “LOMERA” in the BC Teacher and Gunderson (2012) in Publications for a history.
Consortium activities include the development of assessment instruments, cross-district cooperation in the development of ESL support levels, and the implementation of assessment research.
We gratefully acknowledge the BC TEAL Charitable Foundation that supported, in part, the development of an online Lower Mainland English Reading Assessment.
We gratefully acknowledge the support from the Faculty of Education at UBC’s John and Doris Andrews Grant to conduct research on our online Assessment.
The Lower Mainland ESL Consortium Members
Abbotsford School District Lynette Power, District Vice Principal-ELL |
North Vancouver School District Leina Richter Cari Snell
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Burnaby School District Kiran Abraham District Learning Lead Fanny Lee-ELL Helping Teacher
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Coquitlam School District Caroline (Caz) Davidson District ELL Coordinator
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Surrey School District |
Delta School District Joshua Campbell District ELL Coordinator
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University of British Columbia Reginald Arthur D’Silva Lee Gunderson
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Langley School District Elaine Scovell, District ELL Teacher (Assessment) Janis Sawatzky, District ELL Coordinator (Both Assessment and Website) |
Vancouver School District Ann Stewart Hunter, District ELL Resource Teacher |
Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows Diane Wadden Vice-Principal ELL, International Education, Continuing Education and Online Learning
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West Maria Yioldassis, District ELL Coordinator |
New Westminster School District Kathleen Weinkam SD#40 New Westminster District Learning Services-ELL |
Richmond School District Angel Bajgoric, ESL Assessment Program Coordinator |