TDSB ESL Department

📚📚📚📚Ooh-La-La 📚📚📚📚 I LOVE the cover ☂ I’m intrigued by the title 🙌🏽 Now, I cannot wait to read it 📖 Powerful Practices for Supporting English learners — elevating diverse assets and identities — published by @CorwinPress #IdentityMatters #pd4uandme

On Saturday, May 23 at 9pm EDT, Ajmer Darawal and Diana Hernandez will be presenting their online workshop “Supporting and Understanding Refugee Students with PTSD and Trauma”. For more information, please contact Diana at dibuggy@gmail.com

Using free learning tools from Microsoft, learn how to support your #ELLs remotely who struggle with reading, writing, math, and communication. Webinar registration is free! Learn more: buff.ly/2UVtLVl #ELT #TESOL #TEFL #TESL

Congratulations to our winners of the TDSB ESL Speech Competition finals hosted at Central Toronto Academy.

Congratulations to our 21 participants in the west semi-finals of the annual ESL Speech Competition. We look forward to next week’s finals at Central Toronto Academy.

Congratulations to our 19 students participating in the east semi-finals of the annual secondary ESL Speech Competition. Best wishes to those who will continue on to the finals on December 16.

Cover for Canadian Impressions

Congratulations to all of our student authors who were published in Canadian Impressions. Our annual anthology of elementary ELL writing contains a portion of the 380 submissions received from 73 schools. Well done Everyone!

Using counters in an array to show which fraction is larger. Session: “Small Group Instruction in the Secondary ELD Mathematics Classroom” presented by Michelle Lang, Sky Cressman and Loretta Neufeld-VandeSande from WRDSB.

Author, Marsha Skrypuch shares the background behind her latest book “Adrift at Sea”, the first picture book to recount the dramatic true story of a refugee family’s perilous escape from Vietnam.

Associate Director, Dr. Kathy Witherow delivers greetings from the TDSB on the second day of the 2019 Celebrating Linguistic Diversity Conference at OISE.

This year’s evening symposium: “Focus on Special Education Needs” presented by Cristina Sanchez-Lopez and Theresa Young.

Emblematic rug for the gathering circle in this afternoon’s session “NAC10 and English Language Learners: Cross-Cultural Connections” presented by Alexandra Waschtschuk.

Featured Session: “Learning to Support ELLs: Taking up the QUEST” presented by associate professors and research assistants from OISE. We thank OISE for our continued partnership and for their support.

Just one of our many engaging and informative morning sessions. “No More Media-core Media” presented by Jennifer Freudenthal and Nancy Soni.

Dr. Brendan Browne delivers greetings from the TDSB to some of our attendees at this year’s 2019 Celebrating Linguistic Diversity Conference.

Q3 An observation or insight you developed from this learning. Q4 What ideas or wonders did you have from this learning? Q5 A question you have that is related to any topic from this session. #inclusiveELL @TDSBLibrary

Q1 A new resource you have found and used in response to this session. Q2 A strategy you have tried to intentionally incorporate into resource selection using a CRRP/equity lens. #inclusiveELL

Slow Twitter Chat Begins Today for Our “Examining Resources for ELLs Through an Anti-Bias, Inclusive Lens” session. Please respond to any one of the 5 following questions using #inclusiveELL @TDSBLibrary