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Dr. Kathy Salmon, began Aspire Education Consulting in 2023 upon her retirement as a school principal from the Calgary Board of Education where she served for 23 years. Her roles included principal at 4 schools, assistant principal at 3 schools, System Assistant Principal Corporate Partnerships, ESL specialist, ESL Learning Leader, and teacher. She was also seconded twice to Alberta Education as an ESL Curriculum Manager where she was a co-writer of the Alberta preK - 12 EAL Proficiency Benchmarks 1.0 and 2.0 and produced many resources on the Supporting English
Language Learners Website. She has a hands-on approach to supporting school leadership in creating the human architecture and protocols to support effective learning environments for diverse learners. She supports teachers with EAL, literacy, and embedding oracy into content area learning. In her consultancy work she has supported 5 international schools holding Alberta accreditation in Cambodia, Macao, and China. Through her consultancy and the APLC, she has supported Grasslands School Division, Canadian Rockies School Division, Christ the Redeemer School Division, Northern Lights, School District, Edmonton Public School Board, and other Alberta school districts with on-site leader mentoring and teacher professional learning. Her doctoral dissertation was titled Effective Teaching Practices for English as an Additional Language Learners in Alberta, Canada.

Dr. Kathy Salmon, began Aspire Education Consulting in 2023 upon her retirement as a school principal from the Calgary Board of Education where she served for 23 years. Her roles included principal at 4 schools, assistant principal at 3 schools, System Assistant Principal Corporate Partnerships, ESL specialist, ESL Learning Leader, and teacher. She was also seconded twice to Alberta Education... Read more »