Principal's Weekly Report
Principal's Update
Welcome to Week 26!
Good morning parents, students, and staff, and welcome to Week 26!
We would like to begin by extending a heartfelt thank you to our students and teachers for a truly beautiful Black History Month celebration. The performances were inspiring and reflected the hard work, pride, and dedication of everyone involved. We are incredibly proud of our school community for honoring history through such meaningful expression.
We would also like to recognize our AVID students who had the opportunity to tour UCF and Full Sail University last week. These college visits provided valuable insight into postsecondary options and helped our students envision their future goals. Thank you to our staff for supporting these enriching experiences.
Looking ahead, this week we will be hosting our High School Expo. We invite all families to join us Thursday at 5:30 PM in the gym to meet representatives from our local high schools. This is a great opportunity to learn more about each school’s academics, programs, and unique offerings, and to ask questions to help support your child’s transition to high school.
Good luck to our track and field qualifiers who will be running in the district championships!
Thank you for your continued partnership and support. Let’s make Week 26 a great one!
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.
"As Jean Twenge has shown, teens who spend more time using social media are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and other disorders, while teens who spend more time with groups of young people (such as playing team sports or participating in religious communities) have better mental health. It makes sense. Children need face-to-face, synchronous, embodied, physical play. The healthiest play is outdoors and includes occasional physical risk-taking and thrilling adventure. Talking on FaceTime with close friends is good, like an old-fashioned phone call to which a visual channel has been added. In contrast, sitting alone in your bedroom consuming a bottomless feed of other people's content, or playing endless hours of video games with a shifting cast of friends and strangers, or like or comment is so far from what children need that these activities should not be considered healthy forms of adolescent interactions; they are alternatives that consume so much time that they reduce the amount of time teens spend together. " p 121
Principal: Lauren Feronti Williams
Feronti.Lauren@brevardschools.org
Assistant Principal of Curriculum: Shannon Sejeck
Sejeck.Shannon@brevardschools.org
Assistant Principal of Disciplines: Kelly Borck