The Graduate School

Project ADELANTE Scholarship

Project ADELANTE is a five-year project funded by the Office of English Language Acquisition in the U.S. Department of Education (Award #T365Z160177). Project ADELANTE provides partial tuition scholarships to help pre-service teachers or currently certified teachers earn bilingual education or ESL certification. Students applying to the Post-Baccalaureate certification, M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction, or M.Ed. in Bilingual Education may be eligible. Non-degree seeking students who already hold a Texas educator certification may also be eligible if they have not earned bilingual or ESL certification. Apply today!

  • Applicant Information

  • Program Interest

  • Texas Educator Certification

  • Personal Involvement

  • Briefly describe your professional or academic background.
  • Please list in detail the community activities in which you have been involved during the last three years.
  • List any honors, awards or recognitions you have received.
  • Describe your experiences with diverse cultures, people or languages. This could include community involvement, travels, teaching experiences or life experiences that relate to language, language learning, culture or people whose first language is not English.

  • Letter of Introduction

    Prepare a letter to the ADELANTE Scholarship Committee introducing yourself and addressing the following questions: What are your professional goals? How will the ADELANTE scholarship help you attain your professional goals? Why do you want to teach English learners in either bilingual or ESL education?
  • Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, rtf, ortxt.

 

*Project ADELANTE is funded under award #T365Z160177 from the Office of English Language Acquisition, U.S. Department of Education.