Seventeen Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School senior students were awarded the 2018 New Jersey State Seal of Biliteracy by the New Jersey Department of Education. In order to receive the Seal of Biliteracy, the students had to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language and English in their junior or senior year.
These seventeen students took the online Standards-Based Measure of Proficiency (STAMP) assessment in their chosen foreign language and received a score of Intermediate Mid or higher in all four measured skills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. These students also demonstrated proficiency in English by scoring Proficient or higher on one of the English Language Arts Assessments approved by the New Jersey Department of Education.
Jakub Hibner, a senior student, was awarded the 2018 New Jersey State Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish and Polish thereby making him proficient in three languages!
Here is the list of seniors, the language(s) they are proficient in as well as the colleges they will be attending this fall:
Madeline Bord – Spanish – Johns Hopkins University
Caitlin Bourke – Spanish – University of Maryland
Francesca Carlino – Italian – University of Notre Dame
Amy Chen – Mandarin Chinese – Montclair State University
Phoebe Collins – Spanish – Smith College
Zhengjie Dong – Mandarin Chinese – Rutgers University
Alanna Gaona – Spanish – Farleigh Dickinson University
Emily Gonyou – Spanish – Union County College
Jakub Hibner – Spanish and Polish – Rutgers University
Alexander Joshua – Italian – Rutgers University
Joshua Loango – Spanish – Rutgers University
Jared Mann – Spanish – Northeastern University
Nikita Paranjape – French – Rutgers University
Michael Ramos – Spanish – University of Delaware
Sohia Rosahl – French – Rutgers University
Julia Verardi – Italian – DeSales University
Paulina Zamora – Spanish – Lynchburg University
(above) Pictured are some of the students who attended the reception. In total, seventeen Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School senior students were awarded the 2018 New Jersey State Seal of Biliteracy by the New Jersey Department of Education.
Photo by Scotch Plains-Fanwood Public Schools.
