It moves very quickly and it features challenges that are common in classical music changes. [Music] [Applause] Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Our next piece is called Woodsplitter Fanfare. It is a program piece about a school concert when a video was slipped and cracked top totail piece, but the student picked it back up and calmly waited for the song to finish. The composer wrote this piece as a reminder that hardship is guaranteed in life. But good character means handling the aftermath like like that player did with focus, calm, and determination. It features a tense repeated theme in E minor in the beginning and at the end of the piece with a gentler, quieter section in the middle. [Applause] That's my friend. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] This next week is narration of Jupiter from English modern era composer Gustaf Pulse most famous work the planet suits inspired by Jupiter's image in Roman mythology as ruler of the gods in all life this movement is characterized by its warm moving sound and the happy memories that it calls to The opening section is a bit quicker before pulling the same theme into a more relaxed tempo.
um 78 I'm sorry 83% of our students met proficiency in math. So at or above the 50th percentile and 78% of our students showed growth in math as well. So we're really excited about that growth and feel like we worked really hard to to reach those goals. Um I will also say that we had 13 students that were one point away from meeting their RIT growth goal. So, I can't I have to mention them as well. Um, and just because they're not part of the percentile doesn't mean our other students didn't make growth. It just means they didn't meet their their goal. So, we celebrate that as well. Um, and then for sense of belonging, we um fell a little bit short on our first goal was which was positive to corrective ratio. Um, it's something we're going to continue working on that is measured by classroom walkthroughs.
So, this is all really connected and how the these um social media platforms can really take some disengagement away from our youth. So, some of the things that we'll talk about about what are the features that are more so addictive. These are the addictive design features. The algorithms, the infinite scroll, the autoplay, the time-sensitive content, notifications. All of these things are designed to really lure our youth in when using these apps. They are constantly scrolling through videos on infinite scroll. Sometimes you lose track. I myself sometimes can utilize my phone. you know, beyond a specific app. And then if I don't start to realize, um, I I say to myself, "Wow, I can't believe I just sat here for 30 minutes in and in in what felt like a zone just looking at videos or short videos of things that I have no idea that are irrelevant or I don't even remember.
So, we appreciate them. Now, I just want to take a second to uh thank the most important part of the athletic program, Miss Marsh Young. [Applause] Miss Marion runs every facet of the of the department, whether it's it's making sure support staff gets paid, making sure our orders go through, our orders get paid, uh, transportation, buses, officials, uh, dealing with coaches and emails and communications, and that and that's just a small part of what she does. So, thank you, Miss Mariel. All right. Now we're going to get into the team presentations. We're going to start with the fall. Going to start with football. Coach Sinu [Music] All right. Uh, good evening everybody. Um, I'm going to be up here real quick. First and foremost, just want to thank Mr. Malay and Miss Marion, uh, for all your hard work and dedication to our program. Um, I would like to recognize all the coaches in the room for their constant sacrifice and time spent away from family and loved ones to make you better athletes and better human beings.
A few different phrases layer over beats on the main melody, adding more life and vibrance to the music. [Applause] [Music] Yeah, I'm here. Hallelujah. [Music] Build. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Our final piece this evening is called Danja Espanol. As the title suggests is inspired by various traditional Spanish dances and incorporates elements like Lucian chord progressions and classic Spanish rooms. Our version tonight will also include a percussion instrument often found in music. The piece starts at a quick dance tempo until hitting a softer subdued section that gradually builds back to an even more restatement of the melody. We hope you enjoyed our portion of the house. Stay tuned while we reset the symphony. [Music] [Applause] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. Glory. [Music] Oh no. [Music] What happened? [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Thank you. We have uh two more pieces for you with the rest of the uh honor symphony, but uh the honor symphony consists of seventh and eighth grade band and orchestra students.
So, um, we know that's something we need to continue working on and and continue to address. And then we took a little different approach from what you'll hear from some of my um, colleagues in that we measured nursing visits. And we did that because when we looked at our visits, we had 115 students that were making really regular visits to the nurse. And they weren't really for medical um, reasons. they were um Jake's heard me say this to before to get a mint and a hug or to get some words of encouragement. So, we really looked for ways to provide that in the classroom so that our students could continue to be learners. Um and again, we're proud to say that 97% of those students being tracked had less nursing visits. So, um we feel like the impact of of what we tried was really great.
But that's what it's designed to do. It's designed to keep you there, to keep you stuck, to keep you engaged in in the in the social media platforms. So, really, really important, and we'll talk a little bit more about these as well, addictive design features like the infinite scroll like I mentioned. This way the content and ads never end. So you can really sit there for hours upon hours upon hours without any interruption and really just be scrolling in your phone versus being engaged with your, you know, your community with your peers. And this is one of the addictive design features that is most prominent across the board in a lot of these social media platforms that our youth are engaging in. It's a 3second delay in refreshing or swiping down feed builds craving and anticipation. So, you know, you scroll, you scroll. Sometimes you see it refresh and you see the little things spinning and more videos will come up.
So, I know this night is about you, but I would like to recognize you guys real quick. To your seniors, this has always been a special night here at CHS. As uh Mr. Docker alluded to earlier, many years ago, I was at this event just like you guys. And um you should be very proud of your accomplishments. All of you that are going on to play college uh athletics next year, I tip my cap to you. I know what it takes. I know how hard it is. Especially division 3 athletes, you have to go. you have to pay and you play. It's a lot. So, I tip my cap and I'm uh you should be stand up and uh be applauded this evening. Football definitely a challenging year for us. However, we did finish on a win for the first time in a while because of the young men in this room.
So, we'll be bringing the rest of them out in just a moment. So, give us a few minutes just to reset. [Music] [Applause] Please. [Music] Hey, open. I got to figure out how to get [Music] Thank you so much. This is our honor symphony orchestra. Let's have another round of applause for all our members. for a first time seat. On stage now is the honor symphony orchestra. This group combines seventh and eighth grade band and orchestra students. Our orchestra director Miss TR and the band director Mr. rehearsally combine classes as we get closer to the concert. Our first piece is called Journey in Concert. is a melody of songs originally written and performed by Journey in the 1980s and arranged for symphony orchestra songs don't stopp open and features flute solist. running it. So, [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat.
Um, I also have the EC program at AS and they were working on pre-iteracy skills. They also had great growth. Um, 80% of all of the EC students made growth in pre-iteracy. They worked really hard on higher level questioning. You can see they went from 12% to 26% of their students um, being able to answer those questions. And then sense of belonging. They worked on arrival, dismissal, handwashing, um all those really important skills needed for kindergarten and 93% of them made growth in that as well. First of all, thank you guys for having us tonight. This is an exciting night to uh get to share and it's also good to be able to share celebrations. One of the things that I think from my point of view, I've been on that school leadership team for a long time, was very successful this year was our professional development.
And that's what it's designed to do. It's designed to build anticipation for the next video. Tik Tok Tik Tok is very very um an app that a lot of the teens in uh adolescence are engaged in. Um, I myself has a I have a 13-year-old and I was quite alarmed when I realized that he told me that he doesn't really text people like on the phone like I text him. They use apps to communicate with each other. So that's one way of how a lot of these platforms are really just, you know, getting our youth to be so addicted to these platforms. It's quite alarming. Um, but it's something for us as parents and as adults, guardians, caretakers, whatever our role is to just kind of keep in the forefront that these are designed to get them, you know, to not be able to put their phones down.
So, thank you for never giving up and always being Clifton tough. We have three young men going on to play college football. Isaac Kazamoski will be going to William Patterson. For you guys that don't know, that's salami. Justin Cavaria will be going to Monslair State and David Alvarez will be going to Muenberg. [Applause] [Music] Our MVP for this year is a three-year starter, two sides of the ball, and uh one of the toughest guys that I know. And uh because of guys like you, we'll be better next year. And uh next year, he'll be taking his talents from Montlair State. Justin Gabri, come on up. [Applause] How does it Thanks. Next up is Girls Tents. You see, good evening everybody and welcome. My name is Elizabeth Prey and I am the um girls head tennis coach. Um tonight we celebrate our senior athletes and their accomplishments.
[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] 9. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Our final piece tonight is called Michael Jackson H. Keeping with our 80s theme, this piece is also a me of four songs originally recorded in the 1980s by the soalop. This piece was arranged by Johnny Vincent, including we hope you enjoy this year's spring orchestra concert and hope to see you back again. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Pull back. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Mr. Peter Silo orchestra. [Applause] Thank you very much everybody. have a safe trip home and we'll see you next time.
uh we really took a team approach to that through the uh school leadership team and we connected all of the professional development opportunities both to to the strategic plan and to our school improvement plan. So we had a team of teachers that visited a school uh to learn about collaborative learning structures to support student engagement. We had a team of teachers that went to a training uh with Jennifer Saravalo on uh teaching reading across uh multiple content areas and then they provided some additional training to the staff. I worked uh in a partnership with uh Kristen on uh working with a therapist in a in a mental health clinic to come in and provide training on supporting students to help them be more sens uh to help support them with strategies to manage their anxiety and some of those difficulties we saw through nurse visits uh within the classroom.
So sometimes, you know, we get frustrated when they're on their phones all day. But with a young mind, a young brain, these apps being designed to work that way, you know, sometimes you really have to stop and think about um that sometimes it's to no fault of their own of our youth, you know, but the more tools we have as as community members, as parents, as caretakers, as caregivers, grandparents, friends, family, the more we can better prepare our youth to not fall um created this type of um addiction. Another um feature, another addictive feature is autoplay. Autoplay such as a smooth transition. You don't even realize that the ad has changed. It's a constant autoplay of a feed for constant instant gratification. And if you notice, a lot of these videos are meant and designed to be short. So, they're short, but because they're short, we're constantly scrolling and it keeps them very addicted in in that moment.
I first would like to thank uh Dr. Roberts, the central administration, the Clifton Board of Education, and the Clifton High School Administration, Mr. Hanza, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Stef, Mr. Keegan, Mr. Goer, and Mr. Walka for your continuous support of our athletic programs. I also want to thank Mr. Tomy and Lorie Mashion for organizing this wonderful event. And finally, I would like to thank my assistant coaches, Chad Cole and Annne Tate, for their mentorship and collaboration to make this season so successful. This is my first year as the head tennis coach. While my assistant coaches made this transition super smooth, there are four seniors that made this um season very enjoyable and memorable. And those seniors are Paris Ao and Marina Ne Rivera and Viviana Santiago. Um, thank you Viviana and an our co- captains for being team role models and leaders this season. Thank you powers of the bag for your continuous dedication to our program.
Take care. Parents, at this time, please report to the main lobby here. Your child will come down to the main lobby for you. Get home safely. Thanks for attending the orchestra concert. What's that? [Music] Is that
All of those I think were very wellreceived by our staff and I think contributed to um our success with our uh data as well. It was not I didn't feel like it was as random this year. I felt like we had a lot of ownership of that and I felt like it was very targeted to what we were trying to accomplish. And then you can see EC as we mentioned had those two successes and I know they did a lot of professional development this year as well. So, um, our reflections are that we loved what we saw at Willard School in Elgen, the the teaming structures. Um, and we are, I think, pretty committed to, um, implementing some of those structures which are really studentled and a lot of inquiry based learning. And then I know EC is going to continue to focus on setting up their classrooms so that the higher level questioning um, is um, is uh, ready to go for those students.
And it's very hard to disengage them. So this is another addictive feature that our um social media platforms that our youth are using really has found a way to get into the get into our youth. The time sensitive and fear of missing doubt. That's a big one, right? So a youth might you know a team might post a photo, post a video, post a live feed where they are constantly going back to see that instant gratification feel. going back to see how many likes have been um how many likes do I have, how many comments do I have, you know, and that alone um is quite alarming because you know this is not real world. It's not a real world. This is our real world and our our youth are being sucked into these platforms with this, you know, um fear of missing out. They constantly want to be going back into their social media platforms to be checking on notifications and comments.
You faced challenges, celebrated victories while supporting your teammates and respecting your opposing teams. Over the four over the past four years, you have shown incredible dedication to improve every day. As you move forward in this next chapter, please remember the lessons you have learned and that um all those learning that our tennis program has given you. I am so proud of each and every one of you and I wish you all the best in um all of your future athletic and academic endeavors. Congratulations and thank you. And for our um uh senior MVP, I would like to call Anna. [Applause] [Music] Next up is coach Sardano, girls volleyball. [Music] Oh, Coach, I'm sorry. I I was looking at I was looking at uh Sando. I apologize. Sorry, Stephen.