So, this is a little bit of the um choosing a curriculum and we can just skip that. So, we want to shift what's normal. What's normal right now is everyone has a phone, everyone has a specific social media platform account, everyone um is engaging through that. Let's try to shift some of these some of these norms so that um our youth can feel accepted when they're not necessarily so engaged in these platforms. What's considered normal in our society can change drastically in just a few years. In the US, at one point in time, it was normal to smoke on airplanes. It was normal to never wear their seat belts. It was normal to play football without wearing a helmet. Let's try to help our youth normalize the not the need for a cell phone um you know throughout their throughout their educational part of their day to not be engaged in the screen hours upon hours.
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Um but what we did is we made sure that some of the ideas they brought forth to us uh we implemented those and then from winter to spring it did go up. So for some reason there was a dip in the winter then and then it it went up and we're hoping that that is a trend. I know it's only one beta point but we're hoping that that that shows a trend for us that in the fall to winter next year we're going to see uh that continued increase. We also from that time um the keys to conflict resolution wasn't something that was initially part of our plan. So that's something we introduced in I don't know after winter um after getting some of that data um because as an SLT when we analyzed some of the um comments that we were seeing from students about why they answered questions the way they did we saw that a lot of it well there was a pattern I guess I could say of like small social conflicts happening on the playground or at lunch or whatever.
Let's try to help our youth our youth community really accept that as a norm. cell phone use in school as a current norm that may change for the better. So, let's create a normal what? Let's create a healthier normal cell phone use during school that changes for the better that really helps to Excuse me. [Music] I apologize. It's kind of dry in here. So, really, let's really try to create a culture for our youth to to a a new norm for them, okay? a new norm, a new social media um culture for them to change for the better, bettering their mental health as a whole. some of the initiatives at the attorney general's office, which I am so proud to work on in a day-to-day basis. Um, knowing that I work for the attorney general, and these are the things that, you know, she's very engaged in and prioritizing in is um is amazing.
Good evening everyone. I recognize the administration, our athletic director Malay, and of course, Miss Mario. They've done an outstanding job and with all the athletes, but most of all, we're here for the senior athletes to recognize them for their effort. Today I want to talk about the girls basketball team. The seniors are Crystal Delone, Da Shade. I don't know if she's here, but if she is, I'd like to give a shout out because it's da da da. One of our seniors who did not get here was Audrey Rodriguez. And last but not least, our manager for 3 years, uh, Jonathan Kennedy. Um, so very, very fortunate to have all the seniors through. Um, our year started off my first year as varsity coach. We've been here 5 years also as an assistant. And first half year was fun, but we really turned it around. So guys, winning some league games, which was good.
Um, so our social worker, Sandra Acasta, helped kind of lead that development to um, give our students another tool, I guess, so when they have one of those developmentally appropriate situations occur, they had something they could go back to to work through it. and not a question, but I really appreciate that even you guys bringing, you know, that you didn't hit a certain goal or whatnot, but you're showing that you're trying to get the real life answers to those and pivoting, which is so important. So, I really appreciate hearing that and just going looking outside that box and figuring it out and just trying to apply different things. That's really great. Thank you. Questions. All right. Thank you. Nice job. Thank you. [Applause] Would you like to click? No. Okay. All right. Well, we're HC Storm. My name is Chris Mil. I'm the principal over at HC Storm.
social media policy, cell phone and social media in schools toolkit. Um, addressing hate in schools, youth educational diversion program regarding sexing, sharing sexually explicit digital images. So, these are all initiatives that the attorney general um is um very engaged in and this is a lot of the work that's coming out of our office. What can we do? What can we do to help create this new norm? To create a new norm that's healthier for our youth overall. Make informed choices about your own use. Organize with peers. Get involved with organizations and policy efforts to hold companies accountable. Spend time doing in-person offscreen activities. sports and I know um throughout the summer even though that you know the uh schools our schools are not in session I would continue to urge our families our community to make sure you're checking our uh the parent square app because I know that parent square does continuously um put information out of community events, different types of sports activities activities um throughout the summertime months to help re-engage our youth and keep them um off screen.
Finished the year strong, hitting hard. So I was very happy with that. Um could have been also the seniors for all their work, their dedication. A lot of money has been here in program for 40 years. But at this time I want to really talk about our MVP. She's a four-year four-year starter who's won league honors, accounting honors, and will be attending Ruckers College and Mer University next year. Nia All right, next up. [Music] Thank you. So, basketball had an up and down year this year, but these seniors have been really been a part of a lot of really important wins over the last four years. They have really set a standard of excellence. Um, especially the three seniors here tonight, Justin Leech, Julian Vega, and Omar Rosario. Um, my team MVP is Omar. He's a great kid. Um, I can't wait. He'll be going to Ram College next year.
And with me is I'm Jennifer Torerson. I am a first grade teacher at Storm and also a member of the school leadership team. And unofficially joining us is Mrs. Jodie Bird over here in the corner who's also on our SLC. So just showing some additional support. So although we focus in on a lot of data sets and a lot of goals, these were the three areas that we actually selected as part of our school improvement plan. Um focusing in on ELA with the growth and proficiency and then a larger sense of belonging, make sure that students feel safe and that they have supporting adults. As you kind of see, we had a downward trend. Um but that's not to go say that some of our students, they just did not reach their projected growth target. So, even though we have these as our final scores, u we reflected on the year at SLT and we got a lot of things that we are proud of and some things that are really causing some self-reflection too, which we'll go over right about now.
And that looks like that this is the end of our presentation. And I really just wanted to just kind of recap by saying that, you know, we as we as adults have such an important role to play in this in this initiative. And um it's more so that we really want to help our youth create a normal um a new norm, a new healthy norm for them. We see the detrimental effects that social media have on us. And like we talked about earlier in the presentation, when we're talking about how our youth are developing and their brain is developing up until the age of 25, these important things that they're losing out on because of the onscreen um onscreen gratification and constant grat constant instant gratification that they're looking for on on these um social media platforms really does have a detrimental effect. as as you know as a mom I just want to you know just say as a mom and as a community member I I I see the effects and I think it's time that we try to work together and create a a learning environment that only not only challenges our our youth educationally but you know um their mental health makes sure that it's a safe making sure that it's a safe place for for all our youth Thank you.
And, uh, I can't wait for him to come back with us cuz he's going to go and come. So, Next up, Coach West. Girls indoor track followed by boys indoor [Music] track. All [Music] right. So, our girls indoor track team consisted of seniors Mia Dvita, Isabella Vtori, and Halo Muhammad. Um, our season was pretty good. The girls came second in both uh leagues and county championships. Um, I can't speak enough about them. We have one particular individual who's been the cornerstone of our track program on the girls side. She is our MVP. Mia Lita. [Music] Mia actually keeps me sane. She's one of the few normal ones on it. And uh it's been a pleasure being your coach, Mia. Honestly, I really do appreciate the four years of your dedication to this program. And uh I'm going to really miss you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] As for the boys, our seniors consisted of Wana, Deaner, Rineer, Familia, Aaron Hatcher, Zane Nelson, Lamar Ali, and Nathaniel Phill.
I'll go over those. So, like Chris said, we um reflected on the goals that we set this year and also the work that we did as a building. And even though we are disappointed that we um did not meet our goals, we did find things we're proud of. And one of those things is the work that we did on our high yield teaching and learning strategies. And our students did show um a response, a strong response, positive response to those strategies. And we saw that in our math math test. So we had a 12% increase in students that were proficient as well as a 12% increase in students that were meeting their growth targets. So, we feel like those are working and um well, I'll only talk about what I'm proud of right now. So, um can I just ask you what high yield strategy?
The boys were third at league championships. Uh we had a few teams, a few individuals county wer uh those some of the seniors at home county. We had a couple second team members Aaron Hatcher. Yeah, you can you can cheer. uh sectional champion who's also a junior but I haven't quite there uh we have a couple uh first team or league I should say Lamar Olive uh and and Phil uh the boys also won county championship if you had to know our season was pretty controversial we had uh if you watch the news we had some issues for about a month in track but they still managed to to overcome that uh adversity and win county championships. So, I just want to uh congratulate the boys team on a county championship victory. Our senior MVP, Wander [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Coach usual. Nice shot. Just want to first start just by thanking everybody for coming out.
I'm not sure. So, those are like highly effective strategies that are like studied and pro like studies prove that they have the they yield the most growth in students. It's based off of John Hed's work uh where we found out tons of studies. uh we started this journey about two years ago where we started to look at the high yield instructional strategies that had the most bang for their buck at a point four or higher and we looked at them individually. This year what we did is we looked at more of the umbrella and actually roped in about four or five high yield instructional strategies under overall concept so we could actually bring that into our professional development throughout the course of the year and then have teachers be able to implement that inside their classroom settings. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt. That's okay. Um and then in addition the school leadership team we did a book study on the book who's doing the work and we've started implementing that what we've learned from that book and started to share that with the rest of the staff and shift toward a more student centered question design and also just working to develop more um self-efficacy in our students so that they are choosing these strategies that are working when their teacher implemented but that they can implement them themselves and they can choose the strategy and when and how to use it and without relying as much on the teacher so that they can be more independent.
I want to wish all of our senior athletes uh the best of luck in everything they do moving forward. Uh, as far as our ice hockey team this year, um, our [Music] seniors, Joseph Abella, Ryan Rud, Thomas Nikl, Nathan Bendola, Joseph Petriela, Christian Reyes, Julian Sanchez, and our senior managers, Haley Casterly, and Francesca Shione. Uh this group of seniors is kind of a special group. They're the last uh last players in our program that were part of the team when we were just cliff. Now we're a try out which means we're made up of three different teams and I know that is special to those players to have played uh as just Mustangs that freshman year. our senior MVP, uh, honorable mention all county, honorable mention all league. Uh, just a player who every game, every practice, max effort, uh, someone who we never had a question whether or not he was given everything he had.
Um so that's that journey is kind of beginning because we had just started to learn about it this year and implement it and then we're strengthening our collaboration as a building through vertical vertical articulation. So we have had the opportunity to do crossgrade and intergrade um instructional rounds and with those opportunities we can go into each other's classrooms and teachers can learn from other teachers strengths and then offer feedback to each other as well on things that we're looking for feedback on. We although we didn't meet our growth goals as a building, we did note some um reading growth that's notable among students um certain specific student groups. For example, our black or African-American students showed a 9.5% increase in students who are meeting their projected growth targets. And as our third grade cohort also showed that 12% um increase in meeting their growth target for the spring.
He set a great example for the team. He also served as our captain his senior year, and that is Thomas [Applause] Knight. All right, winter. Girls and [Applause] boys. Good evening everyone. This past year, I had an unexpected but truly rewarding opportunity to serve as the intern and coach for our building team. I want to begin by giving a heartfelt shout out to coach Alice Orbridge. While we all miss him this season, I'm incredibly grateful for his support and guidance throughout and made a huge difference. Additionally, I want to recognize my assistant coach, Matt Me, whose steady presence and reliability helped keep everything on track. I also want to thank so many of you in this room who offered me kind words throughout the season and meant more than you know. Now, a special shout out for our seniors who went by example. from our hurdles team Carolina Fabola Mia and Gabali team Brandon Kevin Grievous Victor Manetto and Finally, I want to congratulate our MVPs, Fabola Mia for the girls and Kevin from the [Music] [Applause] boys.
Um throughout the building in all grade levels, we have seen consistent growth in EXL skill mastery in both math and ELA. And then we've worked to refine our win time focus by working with our PLC's to develop database groups. And then many of the grade levels have been then exchanging students to um create shared ability classrooms for more responsive support to what we're seeing on the CFAs. Of course, we have reflections especially not meeting our goals. So we are we have questions and we have plans. So, we are wondering and working to answer the question of how we can transfer these learning strategies that we've seen be effective in math to our ELA instruction. Um, we also are going to continue that journey with who's doing the work to um refine our instructional practices and continue the journey of um creating more quality and rigor of our question design.
Thank you all. It's been an honor. [Applause] Thanks. Moving on to the spring break. Girls lacrosse. Coach [Applause] Frisky. All right. This season we had four seniors on our team, two of which were fouryear varsity players. They dedicated themselves to getting better every day and making everyone around them better. They will definitely be missed. There are Jaylen Rivera, Amelia Will, Ellie Kis, and Viviana Santiago. My MVP suffered a devastating knee injury that fought her her junior year. This season, she came back on the bench more determined than ever. She earned first team all league, second team all county, finished with 29 goals in a chance, and will be playing next year at Wild State. familiar [Music] [Applause] [Music] world. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] All right, once again uh seniors, congratulations. Wish you the best of luck uh moving forward in your endeavors. Our seniors this year starting off in our manager Francesca Gioon, David Alvarez, Joseph Aella, Chase Avalon, Ryan Raphael, Aaron Patel, and last but not least, our captain, our senior MVP, Juan Castalon.