Acknowledgements
The Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks
(CCLB) would like to thank Human Resources
and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) for
funding the Online Essential Skills Resources for ESL/
FSL Professionals, as part of the Essential Skills and
Workplace Literacy initiative.
This document was completed through the dedication
and hard work of the following members of the
project team:
- Dr. Laura Anderson Ho (Southern Alberta Institute
of Technology)
- Paul Anderson (Southern Alberta Institute of
Technology)
- Christa Bruns
(Southern Alberta Institute of Technology)
- Lynda Fownes (SkillPlan, the BC Construction
Industry Skills Improvement Council)
- Karen Geraci (Essential Skills Consultant)
- Deirdre Lake (Southern Alberta Institute of
Technology)
- Dr. Philip Nagy (Professor Emiritus, Measurement
and Evaluation (Psychometrician), OISE/University
of Toronto)
- Dr. Donna Palmer (Leading Concepts International,
Inc.)
- Gail Stewart (Assessment Consulting Services)
- Cammi MacKinlay and Tanis Leak Sawkins
(Vancouver Community College)
- Karen Hammond (Hammond and Associates)
- Judith Bond (Workplace Training & Services Inc.)
The Centre for Canadian
Language Benchmarks
would like to thank the following ESL and Essential
Skills practitioners who participated in the initial validation
of the CLB/Essential Skills Comparative Framework
early in 2005 and provided valuable feedback to
the research team. Participants represented a wide
variety of ESL programs (bridging, academic, special
purpose, pre-employment) and were asked to use
the Comparative Framework within their day-to-day
lesson planning and teaching:
- Donna Abs, Peel Adult Learning Centre
- Lorene Anderson, ESL & Workplace Skills
Consultant (Calgary)
- Susan Appleby, Maple Leaf Academy (Calgary)
- Julia Beddoe, The Working Centre (Kitchener)
- Karen Berg, Edmonton Mennonite Centre for
Newcomers
- Mariadora Bertoni, George Brown College
(Toronto)
- Bonnie Buchanan, Metro Continuing Education,
Edmonton Public School Board
- Joanne Chernen, Vancouver Community College
- Jodi Connors, Thames Valley - Wheable Centre for
Adult Education
- Allison Dennis, Calgary YMCA (Calgary)
- Valli DiLallo, Toronto Catholic District School
Board
- Jane Forward, Vancouver Community College
- Sandra Frangiadakis, Kamloops Immigrant Services
- Frank Gough, Association for New Canadians
(Newfoundland)
- Anna Gris, Mohawk College of Applied Arts &
Technology (Hamilton)
- Cindy Hanks, LASI World Skills (Ottawa)
- Carol Hawkins, Centre for Education & Work
(Winnipeg)
- Eileen Kelly Freake, Association for New Canadians
(Newfoundland)
- Patti Lefebvre, NorQuest College (Edmonton)
- Cammi MacKinlay, Vancouver Community College
- Susan MacKinnon, Skills for Change (Toronto)
- Laurel Madro, Bow Valley College
- Susan McLachlin, Niagara College
- Dr. Robin Miller, Centre for Education & Work
(Winnipeg)
- Sally Noble, Greybridge - Malkam Inc., (Ottawa)
- Yasmin Ojah, YM-YWCA St. John, Dept. of
Settlement Services
- Mary Anne Peters, Mohawk College of Applied
Arts & Technology (Hamilton)
- Victoria Poe, 2 Lead Change Inc., (Waterloo)
- Tanis Sawkins, Vancouver Community College
- Dawn Seabrook de Vargas, Alberta Workforce
Essential Skills
- Anne Senior, ASTEC Inc.,
- Rose A. Smith, Skills for Change (Toronto)
- Karen Stancombe, Mohawk College of Applied Arts
& Technology (Hamilton)
- Reena Taviss, Education & Training Consultant
(Vancouver)
- Lucie Tsai, Greybridge - Malkam Inc., (Ottawa)
- Barbara Wakal, Vancouver School Board,
- Terry Webb, Thames Valley - Wheable Centre for
Adult Education