WEEKLY BULLETIN FOR FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Monday, February 1
UPCOMING EVENTS
Staff Meeting, 3:20 in room 404
ICA testing continues this week
Jan. 28-Feb 10 Interim Comprehensive Assessments
Feb. 8 Math Scoring
Feb. 10 Min. Day Professional Development, Scoring
Feb. 11 ELA Scoring
Feb. 19 Scoring Deadline ICA’s
Tuesday, February 2
Math Adoption meeting, D.O.
Girls BBall & Boys Soccer, Bartlett @ Sequoia
Wednesday, February 3
Girls BBall & Boys Soccer SEQ @ Woodlake
Thursday, February 4
Professional Development Minute
Teaching social and emotional skills - Kristi McCracken
Friday, February 5
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Staff Meeting – Monday, February 1 at 3:20 in
room 404.
2. The ICA testing window for Math and ELA
remains open this week. Please follow the
testing schedule as it is set by Mrs. Bledsaw.
Scoring will follow starting on Monday, February
8 in the Math department and ELA on February
11. All departments will score on February’s
minimum day February 10.
3. Math Teachers will be in an all-day adoption
meeting on Tuesday, February 2 at the District
Office.
4. Sequoia students will again perform swing dance
routines at convalescent care homes the month
of February on various dates.
5. Sports update – Girls Basketball & Boys Soccer
will be home against Bartlett on Tuesday,
February 2 and away in Woodlake on
Wednesday, February 3. Good Luck to our
teams and coaches.
6. Basketball intramural games begin this week.
Encourage students to get involved.
Many factors influence memory including emotions, social
conditions and stress. Brain friendly teaching practices help to
enhance memory by accessing emotions, enhancing social
conditions and reducing stress.
Humans display many emotions, but only six are hardwired at
birth: joy, sadness, fear, disgust, anger and surprise. The rest
of the emotions are learned.
Appropriate emotional responses such as compassion and
cooperation may need to be taught at school if they weren’t
learned at home.
Social conditions influence the brain. Peer group acceptance
has a positive impact, while feelings of isolation can result in
the production of fewer brain cells. Lack of emotional skills
leads to behavior problems and weakened cognitive skills.
Teaching social skills in class helps enhance students’
emotional states which affect their ability to intake data.
Patience, empathy and trust are social skills that help students
be more successful in school.
Emotional events are much more likely to be recalled.
Childhood memories that stick often have an emotional charge
including fearful events like when the bear lumbered into camp
or humorous ones like rolling down the hill and getting too dizzy
to walk straight.
Students may not remember what you teach them, but they
do remember how you teach them. Students who feel
supported by teachers they can learn from and joke with
remember those relationships as well as some of the content
they covered.
Stress can seriously affect health and learning. Teaching
coping skills increases the sense of control and lowers stress.
Students often experience stress when facing a test. Since
memories are not fixed but rather quite malleable, reviewing
material helps enhance recall and reduce stress.
Brain friendly teaching practices include honoring feelings
while not indulging emotional states, refining social skills and
reducing stress by offering review time for tests.