RISON - Rison High School’s Marcela Castillo is one of 1,448 Arkansas students from the high schools to earn the Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy for demonstrating proficiency in English and one or more other languages by high school graduation.RHS will honor Castillo at the senior awards assembly Friday, May 1 at 9 a.m.Adopted first by California in 2011, the Seal of Biliteracy is now recognized in all 50 states and Washington D.C. According to the official website, “The Seal of Biliteracy encourages students to pursue biliteracy, honors the skills our students attain, and can be evidence of skills that are attractive to future employers and college admissions offices.” Since the 2017 pilot year in Arkansas, a total of 9,559 students from 136 high schools across the state have attained this certification across 55 total languages other than English (Albanian, Arabic, ASL, Bengali, Cambodian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, French, German, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hakha Chin, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Latin, Malayalam, Marathi, Marshallese, Nepali, Norwegian - Bokmal, Pashto, Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Visayan, and Wolof).The Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy is awarded each spring and fall to students in grades 9 through 12 and is sponsored by the Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association (AFLTA) and the Arkansas Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ARKTESOL). The Arkansas Department of Education officially endorsed the Seal in June 2018....
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