Welcoming Newcomers with Open Arms: CBE Welcome Centre Partnerships
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For many years, the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) Welcome Centre (formerly known as Kingsland) has been the first line of reception for Calgary newcomer-families and has assisted them in creating strong community ties. The CBE Welcome Centre and its partners provide invaluable services to immigrants and refugees in terms of school registration, social support, and full integration that expedites the families’ ability to find work, seek medical care, and benefit from government programs and resources. The processes are quite simple yet robust in that families are guided through every step while receiving wrap-around supports tailored to their needs. In the spirit of “Mobilizing Knowledge on Newcomers”, the poster will feature the processes and partnerships between the CBE Welcome Centre and serviceproviding partners: • Calgary Catholic Immigrant Society which oversees the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre; and • Immigrant Services Calgary which supports with language and numeracy assessments of learners while also connecting parents to Gateway (a community of collaborative organizations and partners that offers newcomers one landing place to connect them to a variety of needs-based services). The poster will also highlight other CBE supports such as Diversity Learning Support Advisors who provide culturally and linguistically appropriate professional services, Language Interpreters, and the CBE Literacy, English and Academic Development (LEAD) program. The CBE English Language Learning Specialist determines which newcomers are best suited for this specialized program. In LEAD, students with limited formal schooling receive intensive supports and services in a sheltered, trauma-sensitive setting
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.021 | 0.030 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.025 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.044 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.218 | 0.059 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".