Paula 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-service 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.
