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 Leah Symons, Elementary ELL Facilitator	Burnaby School District Fanny Lee, ELL Helping Teacher Katerina Vakakis, ELL Consultant
Coquitlam School District Caroline (CAZ) Davidson District ELL Coordinator	Surrey School District Analisa Fuez ELL Coordinator	Delta School District
University of British Columbia Lee Gunderson Reginald D’Silva	Langley School District Janis Sawatzky, District Coordinator	Vancouver School Board Ann Stewar Hunter District ELL Resource Teacher
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Diane Wadden	West Vancouver School District Maria Yioldasis, District ELL Coordinator	New Westminster School District Kathleen Weinkam District Learning Services – ELL
Richmond School District Angel Bajgoric, ESL Assessment Program Coordinator Haley Borthwick, ELL Curriculum Coordinator Noreen Thomson, Mentoring Teacher Consultant ELL and Resource K-12	Southeast Kootenay School District Matt Taylor (He, Him), District Itinerant ELL Teacher Raphaela Tuchaschere, District Itinerant Teacher