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2025-2026 IGNITE PLC

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Project Ignite Completer Receives Fulbright U.S. Teacher Award for 2024-2025

Holly Kolarova, an ESL and Special Needs Teacher at Clear Creek Elementary, has received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award for the 2024-2025 cycle from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Kolarova participated in UNC Greensboro’s Project IGNITE as a PLC faciliator from the spring of 2023 through the summer of 2024.

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2024-2025 IGNITE PLC

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2023-2024 IGNITE PLC

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Walter Moore, 2023-24 Rockingham County Teacher of the Year, sits on a wall for a photo

TESOL Grad Named RCS Teacher of the Year

After earning degrees in anthropology and linguistics, along with minors in environmental studies and Spanish, from UNC Greensboro in 2004 Walter Moore embarked on a winding career path that would ultimately bring him to the point where he was recently named the Rockingham County Schools Teacher of the Year.  

Karena Zhang, left, and Yue Yin, right, graduates of UNCG TESOL programs pictured above the Project Ignite logo

Growing Teachers Around the World Through IGNITE

UNC Greensboro’s Innovation to Grow, Nurture, and Inspire Teachers of English-learners (IGNITE) trains Spartans to be at the forefront of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL). The IGNITE program began in 2022 and offers six different programs for learners on different career paths, including a fully-funded opportunity through the UNCG TESOL master of arts in teaching (MAT) program.

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2022-2023 IGNITE PLC

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