THE FAIR LAWN ML MESSENGER
FOR PARENTS OF STUDENTS IN OUR MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS PROGRAM
October 2023
Welcome to our program!
October 6, 2023
Dear Parent/Guardian:
My name is Liliana Lopez and I am the supervisor of World Languages, Multilingual Learners, and Music.
I want to take this opportunity to formally welcome you to our Multilingual Learners program if your child has just entered our school district. I also send a warm greeting to the families of our students who are continuing in our program this year.
As a district, we celebrate and promote diversity. I am excited to share with you we have over 35 languages spoken by our students in our Multilingual Program and our families come from all over the world.
This year, our program has changed its name from English Language Learners (ELLs) to Multilingual Learners (MLs). The New Jersey Department of Education has updated our name and we embrace our new name. We continue to encourage our families to speak their home language and to have our students continue to learn their home language (read, write, listen, and speak)as well as other languages so they can graduate from our school district as Multilingual Learners. We know learning many languages is an asset and we are excited to promote our name change to the Fair Lawn Multilingual Learners Department.
The intention of this ML Messenger is to share important information about our Multilingual Learners program, program events, and other resources to help our families.
Please feel free to email me with questions at any time in any language. I wish our families and students much success this 2023 -2024 school year!
Warmly,
Ms. Liliana Lopez
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Our Fair Lawn ML Staff
District Supervisor of Multilingual Learners, World Languages and Music
Ms. Lopez llopez@fairlawnschools.org
Fair Lawn High School
Ms. Francis mfrancis@fairlawnschools.org
Ms. Conniff mconniff@fairlawnschools.org
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Ms. Finneran lfinneran@fairlawnschools.org
Ms. Palmieri jpalmieri@fairlawnschools.org
Memorial Middle School
Ms. Kikuyama ykikuyama@fairlawnschoosl.org
Ms. Riley rriley@fairlawnschools.org
Forrest Elementary School
Ms. Weathers mweathers@fairlawnschools.org
Ms. Riley rriley@fairlawnschools.org
Lyncrest Elementary School
Ms. Castro dcastro@fairlawnschools.org
Milnes Elementary School
Ms. Vaccaro nvaccaro@fairlawnschools.org
Ms. Naydin snaydin@fairlawnschools.org
Radburn Elementary School
Ms. Landrigan klandrigan@fairlawnschools.org
Ms. DellaSala jdellasala@fairlawnschools.org
Warren Point Elementary School
Mr. Corso jcorso@fairlawnschools.org
Westmoreland Elementary School
Ms. Sotelo jsotelo@fairlawnschools.org
ML Parent Committee
Fair Lawn ACCESS Testing Window
The NJDOE testing window is from February 5, 2024 to March 29, 2024. More Information will be shared in a future ML Messenger with our Fair Lawn Testing dates.