Principal's Weekly Report
Principal's Update
Welcome to Week 24!
Hello parents, students, and staff!
We are excited to begin Week 24 and another great week here at Stone Middle. This week, our PTO will be selling flower and cookie grams, giving students a fun way to spread kindness and show appreciation for friends and staff. Be sure to take advantage of this special opportunity.
We are also looking forward to our Valentine’s Day Dance this Friday. This is always a favorite event for our students, so don’t forget to purchase your tickets before the big night.
In athletics, we have two track meets this week. Our team will compete Monday at Satellite and Wednesday at home at Palm Bay High School. We encourage our school community to come out and cheer on our athletes as they represent Stone Middle.
Let’s make it a fantastic week filled with school spirit, celebration, and success!
Go Gophers!
Starting the 2025-2026 school year, all K-8 schools are personal electronics free per state statue. Personal electronics include cellphones, headphones, tablets, etc. As Principal of Stone Middle School an electronic free campus is important to me. Cellphone and other electronics may be silenced in backpacks to not distract the learning. Students must secure all electronic devices in backpacks before coming on campus and may use their phones after the dismissal bell. This past summer, I read "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt and would like to share information from this book regarding teen use of electronics.
"I should note that researchers' efforts to measure screen time are probably underestimates. When the question is asked differently, Pew Research finds that a third of teens say they are on one of the major social media sites 'almost constantly,' and 45% of teens report that they use seven house of leisure screen time per day, if you count all the time they are actively thinking about social media while multitasking in the real world, you can almost understand why nearly half of all teens say that they are online almost all the time. That means around 16 hours per day--112 hours per week--in which they are not fully present in whatever is going on around them. This kind of continuous use, often involving two or three screens at the same time, was simply not possible before kids carried touch screens in their pockets." p 119
Principal: Lauren Feronti Williams
Feronti.Lauren@brevardschools.org
Assistant Principal of Curriculum: Shannon Sejeck
Sejeck.Shannon@brevardschools.org
Assistant Principal of Disciplines: Kelly Borck