Marla Kozlak, an English for Speakers of Other Languages teacher at Bel Air Elementary School in Woodbridge, has been selected as a scholarship recipient of the U.S. Department of Education’s 2009 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program. The program’s focus is to show how geography, climate, history and culture affect society by looking at the differences between land-locked Mongolia and the isolated island nation of New Zealand in the South Pacific. A total of 16 elementary educators from across the United States will participate in the program, which runs from July 13 to Aug. 21.

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