Lee’s Summit R-7 Students Receive Missouri Seal of Biliteracy Awards
The state of Missouri has awarded a total of 121 students with a total of 127 Seals from the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District with the Seal of Biliteracy award, 18 with the added Distinguished distinction.
This is the seventh year the program has been available for LSR7 students. Students who earn the award are recognized for attaining a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, listening and writing one or more world languages in addition to English.
Students may have gained proficiency through any number of methods, as a heritage language learner or as a new language learner. Students who have attained the Seal of Biliteracy have an intermediate level of proficiency and students who have attained the Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy have an advanced level of proficiency. The Seal of Biliteracy is listed on the high school transcript and is a nationally recognized industry credential that can earn college credit and serve as evidence of proficiency when entering the workforce.
Missouri Seal of Biliteracy 2024
102 LSR7 2024 graduates achieved the necessary proficiency to earn a total of 109 Seals of Biliteracy. Their knowledge spans ten languages. Each language is listed below with its award recipients by school.
American Sign Language: LSNHS: Matthew Allen
Arabic: LSHS: Eyad Bakheet
French: LSHS: Gwen Liu, Morgan Mashburn, Josephine Sibert, Kalista Siegel, Sloan Smith,
LSNHS: Callie Dennis, Katelyn Grechus, Jaiden Maltbia, Ernesto Ramirez, Savannah Williams, Elle Zinn
LSWHS: Keelee Hagen, Mackenna Hughes, Elijah Hutchinson, David Lightfoot, Arianna Nunez
German: LSHS: Katelynne James, Kaylei Stahl-Winch
LSNHS: Matthew Allen, Hailey Baldwin, Taylor Diehl, Anna Meintrup, Niko Myers, Makayla Ruhlman, Caden Sankey, Cooper Spacil
LSWHS: Lucy Bock, Tommy Conlon, Connor DeDiemar, Miles Heckadon, Connor Pinkley, Stella Robertson
Gujarati: LSNHS: Jia Patel
Mandarin Chinese: LSWHS: Lilyan Uberroth
Russian: LSHS: Joshua Chernioglo
Spanish: LSHS: Mara Bannister, Adriana Benassi, Lezlie Cervantes, Nina Cooper, Sophia Elbert, Jake Gallegos, Yusuf Gobin, Lupita Guevara, Helen Harbit, Jenna Heafner, Hayden Hodges, Damaris Hidalgo Lechuga, Sienna Johnson, Danica Jones, Charlotte Manganaro, Kyle Moor, Suhani Patel, Quin Racer, Rodrigo Rojo-Vences, Grecia Rutiaga, Paloma Sevilla, Ava Straley
LSNHS: Graham Adkins, Saira Ali, Alecia Barnette, Aidan Carter, Blake Carter, Jasmin Cauich, Alexa Cervantes, Zyza Cooley, Jackson Ford, Brooke Francis, Kristen Selena Fanco-Lopez, Mia Gomez, Karla Crystal Gramajo DeLeon, Christian Guzman, Cale Hicks, Maya Hoffmann, Caden Hulse, Adrienne Jones, Blaine Kelly, Maddy Lane, Meadow Lepert, Meredith Myers, Sophia Pasnick, Jia Patel, Abby Pickard, Emilia Ramanauskas, Ernesto Ramirez, Gabriella Sanford, Michael Schulze, Makenna Shackelford, Warda Shahid, Jaclyn Siegmeier, Julian Somi, Kiraly Vega, Charlie Wanashko, Rachel Wheeler, Erin Wieland
LSWHS: Nadia Carrasco, Ava Coffey, Jillian Foster, Sophia Granados, Jacob Klipfel, Wyatt Lacey, Samantha Mann, Mia Myers-Ray, Arianna Nunez, Arielys Ortiz, Peyton Osborne, Hailey Pate, Kyrsten Pauley, Nicholas Prather,
Turkish: LSHS: Salih Kuchkarov
Vietnamese: LSWHS: Khanh Nguyen
Missouri Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy 2024
18 LSR7 2024 graduates achieved the necessary proficiency to earn Distinguished Seals across three languages.
German: LSNHS: Alexander Gerling
Gujarati: LSHS: Suhani Patel
Spanish: LSHS: Alexa Iniguez, Ixchel Garcia, Medley Gomez Campos, Maximiliano Vides
LSNHS: Yadhira Aguilera, Thomas Berhe, Paden Cole, Amy Cuyuch, Axel Sanchez
LSWHS: David Lightfoot, Ricky Lyon, Lauren Miller, Eva Noland, Erick Orozco, Brynn Smith, Jordy Urbina
Students who earned the Seal of Biliteracy were honored at the Academic Achievement Awards at their respective high schools this past April. Students who qualified for a Seal of Biliteracy or Distinguished Seal of Biliteracy with their International Baccalaureate language test score were mailed their awards in July. Congratulations to all of our 2024 award recipients!