Stephanie Ledger, MEd - Teacher Assessor, Waterloo Region District School Board Welcome Centre for Newcomers

Stephanie Ledger (MEd, Wilfrid Laurier University) is an ESL/ELD educator, researcher and author from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is passionate about co-creating equitable assessment and learning opportunities for multilingual learners (MLLs). She has spent over thirty years collaborating with elementary, secondary and adult MLLs and their teachers. Her research and practice focus on early literacy education for adolescent students of refugee background with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE).