2020 Seal of Biliteracy Recipients

The Massachusetts State Seal of Biliteracy and Seal of Biliteracy with Distinction are awarded to graduating seniors who demonstrate high levels of proficiency in English and another language. The Newton Public Schools are proud to honor the achievement of these dedicated students who have devoted significant time and effort to the ideal of becoming linguistically sophisticated global citizens. Their success in attaining a Seal of Biliteracy reflects the value we place on preparing our students for the challenges of the 21st century, and the great respect that we have for our community’s diverse linguistic and cultural heritage.

This year, NNHS awarded 88 Seals, in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Luganda, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. 18 of the Seals are with Distinction. NSHS awarded 55 Seals in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Cantonese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Six of the Seals are with Distinction.

Below please find the award recipients and their chosen language from both North and South.

Newton North Seal of Biliteracy Recipients

Emiliya Aleksanyan, Russian and Spanish

Or-El Ankori, Hebrew

Rory Arbuckle, Spanish

Ella Bailey, French

Pierre Alain Belcher, French

Isabella Bertolami, Italian

Ariel Blumkin, Spanish

Dejan Brown, German

John Byers, Italian

Francesco Campione, Italian

Jared Chan, Spanish

Esther Choi, Korean

Julia Davis, Italian

Ruby Delaney, Spanish

Daniela Divo, Spanish

Isabella Donovan, Italian

Corey Donovan, Spanish

Jasmine Duong, Spanish

Maria Carolina Echeverri Guerrero, Spanish

Melton Fan, Chinese

Isabella Garcia, Spanish

Claire Gardner, Chinese

Sophie Gelfand, Chinese

Ilias Giannakopoulos, Italian

Gabrielle Gilpin, French

Zoe Goldstein, French

Alan Gomez-Tagle, Italian

Dina Grossman, German

Joshua Grossman, German

Liisa Halloran, Spanish

Austen Herlihy, Spanish

Sofia Hrycyszyn, Chinese

Jenny Huang, Chinese

Alexander Ivanov, Spanish

Olivia Jacks, Spanish

Tatiana Jackson-Saitz, French

Serena Jampel, Spanish

Yunah Jang, French

Sophia Jauniskis, Spanish

Catherine Jonas-Walsh, French

Ellie Karniadakis, Spanish

Alexander Kelsey, Spanish

Maximilian Kuechen, German

Anna Kusiak, Spanish

Thao-Vy Le, Spanish

Yingxin Li, Chinese

Xi Luo, Chinese

Sara Manning, Spanish

Elena Manzella, Spanish and French

Anabel Marre, Spanish

Cecilia McCormick, French

Isalia McIntyre, French

Isalia McIntyre, Spanish

Philip Membrino, Italian

Ilana Miller, French

Jonah Monet-Viera, Spanish

Olivia Mooradian, Italian

Michela Morrill, Italian

Hikaru Motoyama, Japanese

Mathew Muyinda-Nsaduh, Luganda

Bianca Nascimento, Portuguese

Margaret Needham, Spanish

Lila O'Neil, Spanish

Emily Pan, Chinese

Oliver Pazmino, Spanish

Maya Rabinowitz, Hebrew

Kate Rooney, Spanish

Jennifer Santos, Portuguese

Karolina Shull,German

Brianna Spiegel, Russian and Spanish

Emerson Spotswood, Italian

Maximillian Steinbok, Chinese

Kenichiro Takeoka, Japanese and Spanish

Vy Trieu, Vietnamese

John Truslow, Italian

Francesca Wallace, Italian

Anna Weylman-Farwell, Spanish

Jacob Wright, Spanish

Andy Wu, Italian

ShuYing Yu, Chinese

Christina Zhao, Chinese

Zhiqing Zhou, Chinese and Spanish

Shaobin Zhun, Chinese

Newton South Seal of Biliteracy Recipients

Itai Abramowich, Hebrew

Amit Avieli, Hebrew

Jacob Balanov, Hebrew

Lamya Bhat, Hindi

Jonathan Bulis, Hebrew

Brad Chen, Mandarin

Jonathan Edelman, Latin

Robin Engelman, Latin

Kate Esbenshade, Spanish

Joanna Folta, Korean

Roos Glastra, Dutch

Shoshi Gordon, Hebrew

Liat Grutman, Hebrew

Dorra Guermazi, French

Elird Haxhimihali, Albanian

Kyle Hooker, French

Grace Huang, Mandarin

Mark Kartashov, Russian

Hannah Kim, French

Sarah Kim, Spanish

Yelin Kim, Korean

Ekaterina Kladova, Latin

Sherry Kou, Mandarin

Caleb Lazar, Latin

Michael Leyfer, Russian

Coco Lheritier, French

Si-Rong Lin, Cantonese

Si-Rong Lin, Mandarin

Jing Liu, Mandarin

Amanda Lookner, French

Shelly Marshak, Hebrew

Masa Masri, Arabic and French

Yazid Masri, Arabic

Ashot Melkonyan, Armenian

Emily Miao, Mandarin

Sun Minghan, Mandarin

Tamar Nagar, Hebrew

Honoka Nakano, Japanese

Tomas Nelson, Spanish

Elizabeth O'Neill, French

Jay Park, Portuguese

Jay Park, Spanish

Gideon Rabson, Hebrew

Camile Schnaas Barrero, German

Camile Schnaas Barrero, Portuguese

Camile Schnaas Barrero, Spanish

Daniel Sivachenko, Spanish

Anna Tandetnitskiy, Spanish

Isabella Villafuerte, Spanish

Zhanbo Yang, Mandarin

Wing Ting Yeung, Cantonese

Melly Zhang, Mandarin and Cantonese

Winson Zhang, Mandarin