Calgary Board of Education website with information, publications, educational materials, and exemplars from the field that support new students with limited formal schooling.
Caring for Syrian Refugee Children: A Program Guide for Welcoming Young Children and Their Families - includes downloadable guide, tip sheets and helpful language resources.
The Refugee Mental Health Project aims to build settlement, social and health service providers' knowledge and skills regarding refugee mental health and promote inter-sector and inter-professional collaboration. Includes access to online courses and resource toolkit.
This workbook is designed to assist Early Head Start/Head Start and Child Care (EHS/HS/ Child Care) programs to understand code switching by children and teachers, and identify and implement effective program policies and practices that promote children’s development and school
readiness.
Open a world of reading with the UCDSB collection of eBooks, audiobooks and read alongs from OverDrive. Your virtual book library all in one! Download the Sora app to your phone or device - its easy to read!
If you were fleeing Syria for Europe, what choices would you make for you and your family? Take our journey to understand the real dilemmas the refugees face.
Lesson plan with downloadables, data links toExplore the human geography of the current refugee crisis. Students will: 1. Employ data to create a map of the crisis. 2. Examine one refugee’s story and use it to map his or her experiences. 3.
Consider challenges facing the international community and weigh responses to the crisis.
UCDSBs service dedicated to assisting Permanent Residents, Live-in-Caregivers and Convention Refugees with settlement and immigration needs. Our Settlement Workers can assist you with finding information, language classes, and completing forms.
211 Ontario is available by phone, 24/7, in more than 150 languages to help newcomers learn about the services available, and understand how to access them.
Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary by 
Oxford Picture Dictionary by 
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How I Learned Geography by 
The Colour of Home by 
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