Bluewater District School Board (BWDSB) has welcomed many new students from varying linguistic and cultural backgrounds. To support our mission to provide a quality education for every student in a safe, accepting, and caring environment, our vision for these students and their families is to develop a culturally diverse learning experience in which students will see, hear, and feel their own languages in their classrooms and school communities.
Initiatives to support this vision include:
1. adopting the term multilingual learner (ML);
2. allowing students to use their home language for learning and leveraging technology to communicate;
3. creating a representative multilingual library of eBooks and videos to reflect the dynamic population of our board;
4. developing a welcome ambassador program in each school;
5. fostering collaborative spaces to discuss multilingual pedagogy so all students feel motivated, valued, and connected; and
6. supporting ongoing dialogues with community partners to foster welcoming communities.
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