Paula MarkusPaula Markus served as the ESL/ELD Program Co-ordinator with the Toronto District School Board from 2001-2017. She is currently a sessional lecturer in the Masters of Teaching Program at OISE/University of Toronto, preparing pre-servce teachers to support English Learners. Paula is the founder of the annual "Celebrating Linguistic Diversity" Conference, Ontario's largest professional gathering of K-12 teachers of English Language Learners for the past two decades. She continues to be an invited presenter at school districts and conferences across Canada and the U.S.