GODFREY - Godfrey's Leanne Thompson recently received a huge surprise when she received a $2,500 Teacher Appreciation Scholarship to Western Governors University, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Western Governors University said Thompson's scholarship is designed to help current teachers improve their skill set in the classroom or to assist aspiring teachers in obtaining the required credentials for a rewarding career as an educator.

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Thompson, a paraprofessional at Jersey Community Middle School in the Jersey Community Unit School District 100. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from WGU.

Western Governors University is a private, nonprofit, online university that uses online competency-based learning model as opposed to the traditonal cohort-based model present at most universities.

On Aug. 12, she was presented the scholarship by WGU Strategic Partnerships Manager Jim Chandler.

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