So, we are really proud. AS uh did a lot of great things. We think um we have growth to make of course, but we feel we feel really good about what we did this year. [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Uh there might be some questions. Okay. I'm out, Jake. Thank you. So I said a question is because it says positive to corrective feedback. What is that? Sure. So that's part of our Champs model that we use and positive is kind of what it sounds like positive comments to students like great job or I like the way you finished your math. Um corrective is more uh a comment like um let me I'll think of one. I can't think of one off the cuff. Yeah. sit down. Um, uh, need to get back on task. Those are correct, more corrective comments. It's interesting looking at the data because I do think that's still an opportunity in that we had some areas where there were, you know, we were looking for 3 to one positive to corrective and we did see some areas where we had that or exceeded that.
So, it's really it's that instant gratification, that fear of missing out, timesensitive. if someone posts something, they have to check it. Things like that. So if and if you leave the app, you'll miss out on the on this limited time content. So that's another way of really keeping them engaged. That is um kind of scary when we really start to think about how these apps are designed to do that to our young minds. um kind it very sad. So, non-stop notifications. I think this is probably personally my worst feature on my phone. It is I'm constantly being flooded with these non-stop notifications. Why? To keep me lured back in, right? To keep us lured back in. And when you're 13, when you're 11, when you're 10, when you're 17, and you're constantly constantly being distracted by these notifications, um, nine out of 10 times they're going to check it, right?
Um good evening everyone. Uh I would like to take the moment to thank the coaching staff and the Clifton School uh administration for their support to the girls volleyball program. Um I would also like to acknowledge our seniors. We have Kimberly Waka who unfortunately is not here. uh Junior Crawford who is also not here but she will be attending Ruckers next year. Jamilia Sanchez who will be attending Penn State and our MVP who is Alisa Poly attending Ramapol. Uh, thank you very much. [Applause] [Music] All right, next up is boys soccer. Uh, Coach Lumprey was a bit under the weather today, so I'm going to uh present for him. And then we have some of the soccer players are going to come up to present the uh Fernando Rossi scholarships as we do every year. So boys soccer finished 173 and two. Uh they won the Liberty Division as well as uh Pay County Championship.
So, I think utilizing some of those areas where we had more positive to corrective is going to be part of our next year planning. And did you say you track that by observation? like it's it's walkthrough data. So you have like a little tick sheet in your Okay. It's a team. It's actually I'm not actually usually part of the team. It's um Katherine Murray who's um our behavior um person here um at RJC and then my social worker and some other members of our leadership team who do that. I'm assuming that's like unplanned. Like they don't know you're they're coming in. Uh they do know we're they do know we're coming but um I think they're not they don't fake it. They just act normal because they know what we're looking I mean they know we just want to improve that it's not um evaluative and we just want to get better.
They're they're young. They're easily distracted. And these things are done. These are 40 types of notifications are enabled by default. So you you get it in phone, you download download your social media platform apps and these are already designed to be default notifications. So they're already designed to distract us, distract our youth. So things to think about when we're having these conversations with our youth and encouraging them and educating them on how, you know, this is just one example of how it is set up to be a distraction. Then we have our social comparisons, which is tough for teens and youth. you know, they want the likes, they want the views, they want the comments, they want the beauty filters and the photo editing. So these platforms have been designed to um really keep them from keep them from, you know, being in real time, but really just being so emotionally connected to what the views are, what the likes are, what the comments are.
They were sectional finalists and finished in the top uh top 20. Again, these seniors that have played for the last four years have started and finished in the NJ.com top top 20. So there's a lot to be said for that. Very very difficult to do and won uh multiple championships. So that being said, the boys soccer MVP is Justin Lee. Uh Justin [Applause] Leech, like Mr. Ultimately, he said, "We ended our year fourth in New Jersey rankings and 12th in all of New Jersey. In the last four years, we've had a combined record of 11 losses, five draws, and 64 wins. Now, we have the honor of announcing both of this year's $1,000 Fernando Rossi scholarships. And the winners are Jada Romero and Justin Leech. [Applause] All right. Girl Soccer Coach Chris. [Applause] [Music] 4. All right. This soccer season, we had four seniors who dedicated four years to the program.
What was the um how many times did they do the walkthrough or like was there consistency like once a week whatever? There were three walkthroughs um that were you know led by that team. Um but we always are looking for that when I'm doing evaluations or when we're having conversations as well. And I know our SLT members did a lot of observations of each other and looking for those kinds of things as well. Did you have any staffing issues or concerns this past year? Um not no not that I can think of. I think the only thing I I would mention which kind of goes back to the previous question was just that that's something I think we're looking to work on. One of the things we found when we did walkthroughs is sometimes there were people absent or there was something else going on.
So, it's important when we do give our youth access to these apps, it's also very important to, you know, just keep a check in or a monitor on how this is, if this is really making a profound effect on your downsides of these features. So cyber bullying which we all know um is it is prominent and existing with our youth. Cyber bullying is when you use technology to hurt or harm someone else with unwanted aggressive and repeated behavior. Texting, email, social media, online games, pictures. These are all forms of ways that our youth are being cyberbullied or cyber bullying sadly. So not only it's you know not only the texting but we have the emails and the bullying through the social media platforms. It's happening on online games and um pictures as well. Cyber bullying is against the law and can get you into serious trouble.
I want to thank them for all their commitment and hard work throughout their high school careers. Uh my four seniors are Amelia Wil, Mia Dvita, Kayla Akuna, and Brianna Moyes. My MVP was a workhorse up and down the field, always wanted to get better, not only as an individual, but as um as better for the team. My MVP is Mia Dvita. All right, next up is coach Mercini and cheer cheer and competition cheer at the same time.
So building capacity within all of the staff to understand you know positive to corrective and strategies for including students I think is something to continue to work on. Uh, I think you know some of those observations I think we were I don't want to say concerned but we noticed that there was different staff in the classrooms than there's typically there and things like that like substitute teachers who wouldn't have the same level of training as our our typical staff. Any other questions? Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. You want to queue it up? Sorry. Hang on. Are we Yeah. Yes. I'm sorry. It's Grace McQueen. I'm going. Nice seeing you. Thank you for coming. Didn't know I didn't know them popping up that it was our turn. They were going to go for it. Very enthusiastic. Yeah. All right. Good evening. I'm Jeff Modf.
It's very important for us to understand that if this is something that is happening um to someone that you know that and if they have trusted you in to tell you then please seek out a necessary resource for them because um cyber bullying can obviously affect our mental our mental health and the mental health of our youth and our adolescence as well. reasons why people cyberbully. Social pressure. It's it's it's tough out there right now, especially for, you know, for our young people. Um, it is it's it's a tough time. It's a tough time for them, you know, um, in in general. These are growing gears and being a victim of a cyber bully uh or being cyberbullied definitely can have detrimental effects on um on someone's mental health. So social pressure may be a reason why people are cyberbullied or to gain respect or popularity to get the attention or get a reaction from the person they are targeting.
[Music] Good evening everyone. My name is Dina Fcini and I have the honor of standing up here tonight as the head coach of Clips and Jer. As always, I'm incredibly proud to represent a program filled with heart, hustle, and history. This season was nothing short of amazing. Our team completed the Big North Conference with a record of six and two and earned the title of Big North Liberty Division Champions for the fourth straight year. [Applause] She placed third out of 28 at the Big Horn Cheer Championships, took home multiple first place finishes and grand champion titles, and became state champions for the third year in a row, scoring the highest out of 23 teams. These accomplishments don't happen by accident. This team showed up. They worked hard, supported one another, and they never settled. I want to take a moment to thank my incredible coaching staff, Laura Tanel, Samantha Feliciano, Sarah Post, and Brandon Rivera.
I'm the principal at Grace McWain. And I'm Ashley Manthi. I'm an SLT member and I teach first grade. Um, and we're going to take you through some of the things that we're proud about uh for the year. Uh, first off, uh, wanted to direct your attention through to our proficiency data. um we had 91% of our students uh proficient in math on NWA MAP and 80% of of our students uh were proficient in reading. So we were very excited about the that data. Um our goals that we set for ourselves as far as school improvement were based off of growth. But I did want to mention uh these two pieces of data because we're very proud of them. uh along with the fact that if you look at the proficiency graphs at the bottom, not only is the proficiency uh this year very high uh but it's also been increasing year after year for the past three years which is very important and uh exciting for us.
They do it as a joke. Okay, they do it as a joke, but um obviously for the victim of these cyber bullying, it's it's it's definitely not a joking matter, but this is one one of the uh things that they've expressed. They've done it as a joke. It was intended as a joke to show confidence, control, or power over others or some to get revenge on or cause humiliation to someone they dislike. And I just want everyone to know that's here that you can um I did bring some materials on cyber bullying. So if it is something that you would like to reference, there are materials at the door. Here we have a superintendent survey and this is a response of 171 superintendent, 130 of which have implemented a cell phone policy. Now, we'll talk a little bit about the study act and what that is, but 70% report students are being more engaged and attentive.
You bring so much dedication, energy, and passion to this program, and I'm so grateful for each of you. To our athletic director, Mr. Tomy and Mrs. Lorie Maron. Thank you for always supporting us and believing in our program. And now to our six seniors, Alexa Miller, Elizabeth Lour, Ava Ortiz, Veronica David, Josie O'Neal, and Shane Fischer. Thank you. Thank you for your leadership, your energy, and for leading this program better than you found it. We'll miss your presence on the mat and during games, but your legacy will live on and inspire young athletes for years to come. And finally, a special congratulations to our fall MVP, Alexa [Applause] Miller, and our winter MVP, Elizabeth Tor. You were both the anchor each season and examples of what it means to be Clip Strong. Thank you to the parents, the board of ed, the clips community for always cheering us on.
Uh some of our accomplishments around our literacy goals uh include our PLC teams uh meeting to analyze the greatest area of needs in our own literacy instruction for our students um so that we can drive our instruction that way. Uh we introduced and focused on the Illinois comprehensive literacy plan as a staff. Uh we were fortunate to have our instructional coach, Laura Footut, provide us with professional development and some instructional shifts um that we as a staff can make um to help foster student ownership and independence in their reading. And then uh finally, we improved our literacy culture through parent and community partnerships uh and by hosting different schoolwide literacy events. Sure. As you can see, we worked very hard in the area of literacy at Grace Quain. Uh unfortunately uh we were trying to move the needle from 56.7 to 60% uh growth on MDN math for reading.
40% have reported better peer relationships. 82% report no drawbacks to implementing cell phone restrictions. Important things to remember. Social media is very detrimental to students self-worth and esteem and the ramifications are huge in terms of interpersonal relationships, threats, and even physical altercations. Last year, we started to see the phenomenon of fights being planned on social media, then filmed and posted to social media. Kids with access have been influenced by social media trends that involve risky and destructive behaviors. That's quite alarming when we think of our young our young community, our 13year-olds that have access that have been, you know, drawn into this type of um this type of behavior just utilizing a social media platform. things that as parents we don't think that you know our children are going to be engaged in or even being exposed to. But when we think about social media platforms, we need to think about the importance of not only what are some of the pros because there are definitely pros, you know, as an adult, but what are the cons?
This team is something special and I'm so lucky to be a part of it. Thank you. [Music] All right, wrapping out the fall. Coach P is in girls and boys cross country. [Applause] [Music] I want to thank all of you for being here. It's a privilege to coach at Clifton High and work with some of the finest athletes that our county in our area of the state produce. Whether you've been on super successful teams or teams that struggled, it's the person you became by being part of that group that matters the most. I want to thank the administration of the district, the administration of the school, the athletic director, our principal, our vice principles, our secretary, Miss Marion, and most of all, my assistant coaches for cross country, Mike Vez and Justin Swisser. And we did not have a lot of seniors on our team, but the two girls seniors were tremendous leaders, were great examples for the younger girls to follow.
Um and that just didn't happen. Um but we when we dig dig did dig a little deeper uh into those numbers uh we found a lot of uh data that we were super proud of. Uh first off the percent of kindergarters that were meeting their growth targets this year uh was 20% more as compared to the last three years. So, we saw great reading growth in our uh kindergarten cohort. In addition, our fifth grade uh we we looked and saw that they had the highest growth of proficiency um in the district for uh in the spring as well. Um and the other thing uh that caught our attention was in third and fourth grade um actually in all of the grades when we looked from fall to winter um our growth scores were telling us that we were doing the right thing uh because that we were all on track to meet our growth uh goals uh from fall to winter which is why we continued with some of the efforts we were we were doing from uh from fall to winter uh and continuing on to the spring.
What are the cons? And a lot of that is a lot of that is what we've been talking about. Tons of cons that come with the um social media platforms at a young age at a very important crucial age where their brains are developing. They're their brains are developing in a not natural process if you really think about it because they're being exposed to things that they would have not necessarily been exposed to. The study act. What is the study act? And I have a hand up here. I'm just going to read a little bit before I talk about what's on the slide. The study act would mandate all public schools to have formal policies regarding the use of cell phones, tablets, and other personal electronic devices on school grounds and at school sponsored activities. Each policy must restrict students from physically accessing their personal electronic device devices during school hours.