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 Leah Symons, Elementary ELL Facilitator | Burnaby School District Katerina Vakakis, ELL Consultant Parto Goldan, Helping Teacher |
| Coquitlam School District Caroline (CAZ) Davidson District ELL Coordinator | Surrey School District Naginder Sanghera ELL Helping GTeacher | Delta School District |
| University of British Columbia Lee Gunderson Reginald D’Silva | Langley School District Jen MacDonald, District Vice Principal of ELL Jaimie Li, ELL District Teacher | Vancouver School Board Ann Stewart Hunter District ELL Resource Teacher |
| Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Ashley Faber, District ELL Helping Teacher | West Vancouver School District Maria Yioldasis, District ELL Coordinator | New Westminster School District Kathleen Weinkam District Learning Services – ELL |
| Richmond School District Angel Bajgoric, ELL Assessment Program Coordinator Noreen Thomson, Mentoring Teacher Consultant ELL and Resource Kenny Hall, ELL Teacher Consultant | Southeast Kootenay School District Reid Urquhart, District Itinerant ELL Teacher Raphaela Tuchaschere, District Itinerant Teacher | Mission School District Hardeep Grewal, ELL District Vice Principal Mandy Sadra, ELL Coordinator |