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
Secondary ELL Facilitator

Cari Snell
Elementary ELL Facilitator

 

Burnaby School District

Kiran Abraham

District Learning Lead

Fanny Lee-ELL Helping Teacher

 

Coquitlam School District

Caroline (Caz) Davidson

District ELL Coordinator

 

Surrey School District

Delta School District

Joshua Campbell

District ELL Coordinator

 

University of British Columbia

Reginald Arthur D’Silva

Lee Gunderson

 

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

 

West
Vancouver School District

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