In The Community

The Burnaby Public Library and Literacy Now Burnaby are hosting an excellent workshop for families on multilingualism. Please check out the information below and share with the families in your school community!

Join Burnaby Public Library and Literacy Now Burnaby as we present the first two workshops in a series on multilingual literacy.

 

Raising a Multilingual Child Workshop

 

Saturday, April 10

10:00am-11:30am

Are you a parent or caregiver with a young child who is learning English? Are you worried that your child may lose or forget their home language?

Join us to learn practical tools to use in your daily life to support your child as they learn another language. We will help you keep your home language while learning new ones, and teach you best practices for raising a bilingual child.

This virtual Zoom workshop is presented by Dr. Anne Rimrott from Bilingual Family Consulting, in partnership with Literacy Now Burnaby.

Register online, at any BPL location, or call 604-314-2480. Poster attached.

 

Anti-Racism Resources

Looking for ways to address anti-Asian racism with your students? Check out the following Canadian resources for ideas:


https://www.acenetedu.ca/addressingasianhate https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/docs/Addressing%20Anti-Asian%20Racism%20Resource%20Booklet%20final%20web%20Jan%2024.pdf

 

New/Nearly New to ELL Assessment Workshops

New/Nearly New to ELL Assessment Workshops

Are you new or nearly new to ELL? Is this your first-time doing ELL year-end assessments? Have questions about the assessments? Want to learn how to make an AIP?

Please join us for drop-in training sessions where we will go over the K-7 ELL year-end assessments and answer any questions you may have. You do not need to RSVP, just show up whenever it works for your schedule. Come to one or as many as you like!

Sessions will run:

Wednesday, April 14 – 9:00am – 11:00am https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/6724521999

Monday, April 19 – 9:00am – 11:00am https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/6724521999

Tuesday, April 27 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/6724521999

Friday, May 7 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/9698994253

Thursday, May 13 – 9:00am – 11:00am https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/6724521999

 

 

UBC Pilot Project – Primary Oral Assessment

Burnaby is an active member of the UBC ESL Assessment Consortium. This group created the BERAs that we currently use. We are in the process of creating a new oral language assessment for K-3 and need your help! We need teachers to help us administer the assessment so we can norm the results and ensure that the assessment is valid and reliable.

Requirements:

Let Kiran know of your interest in participating by Friday, April 9th.

Attend a training session on April 15 (1:00pm – 2:30pm) or April 20 (9:00am – 10:30am).

Complete the IPT and new oral language assessment for 12 students.

Send the results back to Kiran in the district mail by Tuesday, May 18th.

 

We know you are incredibly busy with year-end assessments and would really appreciate your participation. Let Kiran know if you have any questions!

 

 

Year-End Assessments

Elementary teachers – if you haven’t already, please complete the “Form” from Fanny to request your year-end testing materials.

Thank you to all teachers who returned their extra IPTs! Our new order of IPTs has arrived. For those of you still needing IPTs for year-end assessments – they will be arriving soon!

Secondary teachers- all documents have been uploaded to our shared Teams folder. Please get in touch with Kiran if you wish to use the BERA.