Principal's Weekly Report

Principal's Update

🎉 Welcome to Week 12, Stone Middle Family! 🎉

We’re rolling into Week 12 with excitement and pride! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Boo Bash last Friday—it was a fantastic evening filled with fun, laughter, and community spirit. Your energy and participation made it a memorable event!

This week, we continue celebrating Red Ribbon Week, standing strong together in our commitment to making healthy and safe choices. Let’s keep the momentum going with school-wide spirit and positivity—wear your red proudly and participate in the themed activities that promote awareness and unity.

Let’s show our Gopher Pride in everything we do this week. Whether in the classroom, on campus, or in the community, let’s lift each other up and make Week 12 one to remember!

Go Gophers

Lauren Feronti Williams

Principal

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Dear Families,

The full Parent and Family Engagement Plan is available on our school website: Documents | Stone Magnet Middle. This plan explains how our school partners with parents and families to support student learning and strengthen home–school connections.

We encourage you to review it and see the many ways families can get involved in helping every child succeed.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at Jenny Gates at gates.jennifer@brevardschools.org.

Thank you for your continued partnership!

Soccer tryouts and practices are up next... GAMES starting October 27th!!! Email disang.edwin@brevardschools.org for boys soccer questions, and vargas.holly@brevardschools.org for girls soccer.

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.

"Putting this all together, we can now understand those sharp 'elbows' in so many of the graphs in the previous chapter. Gen Z is the first generation to have gone through puberty hunched over smartphones and tablets, having fewer face-to-face conversations and shoulder-to-shoulder adventures with their friends. As childhood was rewired- especially between 2010 and 2015- adolescents becomes more anxious, depressed and fragile. In this new phone-based childhood, free play, attunement and local models for social learning are replaced by screen time, asynchronous interaction, and influencers chosen by algorithms. Children are, in a sense, deprived of childhood" p. 65

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Starting this year, two automated calls will be scheduled to families regarding students' attendance. A morning call between 11:00 am and 11:15 am will take place to alert families of an absence in the morning to help verify a student arrived to school. An additional call will be generated between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm to share with families a student's overall attendance for the day. Please remember attendance is crucial for a student's academic success.

Stone Magnet Middle School will adhere to the School Board Rules of Brevard County as cited in the Secondary Student Parent Handbook.

These are the portions most frequently referred to by parents, students, and school personnel.

The educational program offered by this District is predicated upon the presence of the student and requires continuity of instruction and classroom participation. Attendance shall be required of all students enrolled in the school during the days and hours that the school is in session.

School attendance is the responsibility of parents/legal guardians and students.

A student who is absent from class with an unexcused absence may need to complete supplemental learning opportunities.
Excused absences may include medical appointment of the student, pregnancy related issues, court dates, religious holidays, illness with medical documentation and chronic and extended illness, insurmountable conditions, death in immediate family, and appointments for a therapy service provided by a licensed health professional.
For excused absences, the student shall have a reasonable amount of time, up to ten (10) school days, to complete make-up work. Principals or designee may grant extensions to the make-up time limit for extenuating circumstances.