The Seal of Biliteracy is an award given by the district in recognition of students who have studied and attained proficiency in two or more languages – one of which is English - by high school graduation. The students attained the seal in the following languages: Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Polish, Urdu and Ukrainian.
Mrs. Liliana Lopez, Supervisor of World Language, Music and ELL, presented each student with a framed certificate and bouquet of flowers.
“Multilingualism in Fair Lawn is promoted, valued and celebrated! In today’s interconnected world, knowing more than one language is necessary and these students leave high school recognized as having this asset. We are so proud of our community’s diversity and these students are representative of our multilingual community,” said Mrs. Lopez.
FLHS Principal Gorksi, Mr. Corso (WP ELL teacher), Jillene Herenda (FLHS Ancillary teacher), Lise Simard (FLHS French teacher), Michelle Francis (FLHS ELL teacher), Jing Yang (FLHS Chinese teacher), and Liliana Lopez (Supervisor of WL, ELL and Music) attended the brief ceremony.
Student Recipients:
- Mariana Arenas - Spanish
- Devin Baynes - French
- Jacob Caraballo - Spanish
- Rebecca Chernavsky - Russian
- Nathan Coello - Spanish
- Sean Drahouzal - French
- Amy Florian - Spanish
- Yana Goldberg - Russian
- Maya Guennouni - Spanish
- Kelvin Henao - Spanish
- Serghio Hinostroza - Spanish
- Dania Jeon - Korean
- Deeptha Koppala - French
- Erika Leibowitz - French
- Egor Lekhanov - Russian
- Hannah Lu - Chinese
- Abigail Montesino -Spanish
- Emma Radice - Spanish
- Radiya Rahman -Spanish
- Ashley Ameli Reyes-Gonzalez - Spanish
- Jade Roca - Spanish
- Nafees Shaheed - French
- Katerina Sorokin -Russian
- Melanie Tokman - Russian
- Valentina Valencia - Spanish
- Daniel Wilk - French
- Eliana Paulino – Spanish and French
- Lior Lichtenstein – Hebrew
- Sebastian Poltorak - Polish
- Michael Tomaszkowicz - Polish
- Manahil Imran - Urdu
- Elizabeth Mykytyuk - Ukrainian