Jordan School District
The following are new administrative assignments:
New Assignments effective May 2026:
New Assignments effective July 2026:
DATE:
April 16, 2026
TO:
Jordan District Administrators, Directors
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Administrators of Schools
SUBJECT:
Time Schedule for the Last Day of School
Please review this memo carefully for your school dismissal time, and convey this information to your students and parents.
TO:
All Administrators
All Administrative Assistants
FROM:
April Gaydosh, Administrator of Human Resources
Jane Olsen, HR Administrator
ANNOUNCEMENT: SUMMER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Educators and Paraprofessionals of Jordan School District,
We are excited to announce a series of summer professional development opportunities provided by the University of Utah, specifically tailored for educators and paraprofessionals. These workshops and courses are designed to address popular and highly requested topics across the state, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of our educational community.
What to Expect:
● Low Cost, High Impact: These opportunities are budget-friendly while offering significant value to help you enhance your skills.
● Wide Range of Topics: The sessions cover a variety of subjects, ensuring there is something for everyone to deepen their knowledge and expertise.
● Designed for You: Specifically created with educators and paraprofessionals in mind, these opportunities focus on practical applications and current educational trends.
For more detailed information, including session topics and registration details, please visit the University of Utah Professional Development.
We encourage all interested staff to take advantage of these offerings to further your professional journey and contribute to the excellence of our educational community.
TO:
All Principals
Department Directors
School Administrative Assistants
SUBJECT:
Requests for 2026-2027 Special Calendars – Licensed Only
Your assistance is requested, as the Human Resource Department is preparing special calendars for the 2026-2027 academic year for licensed employees. Special calendars are essential to ensuring appropriate contract pay, time entry, emergency protocols and temporary employee tracking. Employees who meet certain criteria, as listed below, should have a special calendar on file with the Human Resource Department.
A list of licensed employees at your school/department location who are currently on a special calendar for the 2025-2026 contract year will be emailed to you for review on Monday, April 20, 2026. If needed, please make all appropriate additions, corrections, or other changes by submitting an online Hire/Change form in Skyward to the Human Resource Department. Please follow the additional instructions below.
Criteria for determining if an employee requires a special calendar:
If you have an employee you would like to review to determine if they may need a special calendar, you may contact the Human Resources Department, HR Assistant Seniors, for assistance. If a list is not included, there are currently no employees on a special calendar at this location. However, if you anticipate a special calendar for a licensed employee, please follow the instructions below.
Instructions for Special Calendar Requests:
Important Reminders:
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. Failure to follow these procedures may cause an employee to be paid incorrectly. Any questions about this procedure or completing a special calendar should be directed to Julie Sharp, HR Senior Asst Elementary, at (801) 567-8230 or Lisa Garner, HR Senior Asst Secondary, at (801) 567-8226.
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TO:
High School Administrators
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Amanda Bollinger, Associate Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Nate Foster, Health & PE Teacher Specialist
Grant funds for Student CPR training will expire at the conclusion of the 25/26 school year. Funding from the state for CPR training will no longer be provided.
CPR Training will still be required as codified in code 53G-10-408 and USBE Rule as R277-465 to provide this instruction to students. LEAs are required to provide CPR instruction to all students consistent with the Health Education Core Standards and as required in Subsection 53G-10-408(5).
Health students do not need to be CPR certified, but are required to receive CPR training as outlined below.
An LEA shall provide hands-on CPR instruction using the following ratios as closely as possible: a student to instructor ratio of no greater than 15:1; and a mannequin to student ratio no greater than 1:6.
Moving forward, there are options for JSD principals and health teachers to choose from to meet the criteria at your school:
1) Provide training from a licensed and CPR Certified Teacher within your school
*2) Schedule JATC-S to deliver this instruction (Contact Sean Garrett. Sean.Garrett@jordandistrict.org)
*3) Contract with the local EMS for a certified instructor to train students
*4) Contract with a third party who specializes in CPR/AED instruction to provide the
Instruction (See attached)
*Options 2-4 would require Principals to build these funds into their budgets for the 26/27 school year.
TO:
Administrators and Administrative Assistants
FROM:
Sarah Palmer, Director of Payroll
Please post the attached flyer for employees to see.
DATE:
April 16, 2026
TO:
Principals
Assistant Principals
Kindergarten Teachers
FROM:
Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent
Becky Gerber, Administrator of Schools
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Meredith Doleac, Administrator of Schools
Odette Desmarais, Administrator of Schools
SUBJECT:
Additional Preparation Days for Kindergarten Teachers
The Jordan School District Board of Education has approved up to 3 additional preparation days per session taught for each kindergarten teacher. Teachers will receive a stipend of $500 per day worked up to the maximum allowed. These days may be used any time before the start of the 2026-2027 school year to meet with parents and students and make preparations for a child’s entry into kindergarten.
Principals should meet with kindergarten teachers to inform them that the preparation days are available and make a plan for how best to utilize the time.
Please complete the Kindergarten Prep Days Stipend timesheet that will be shared with you, or can be found in your Quick Links, print a hard copy with teacher and administrator signatures, and send it in District mail to Shannel Hooper by Friday, August 28, 2026, for payment on the September paycheck. Each principal will need to submit a group timesheet for the days worked.
cc: Cabinet
Sarah Palmer, Director of Payroll
DATE:
April 16, 2026
TO:
Elementary Principals
Head Administrative Assistants
FROM:
Odette Desmarais, Administrator of Schools
Meredith Doleac, Administrator of Schools
Becky Gerber, Administrator of Schools
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
SUBJECT:
Elementary Administrative Assistants Trade Days and Summer Hours
Elementary administrative assistants are calendared to work 206 days in a school year, including 5 days in which students and teachers are not in the building. These days generally occur on the Friday after parent-teacher conferences (2) and on grade transmittal days (3). The PTC days can already be traded for the Friday compensation day if the administrative assistant works both evenings of the PTC. They are also allowed to be paid for up to 10 additional optional days during the summer months, which are not included in their 206-day contract. These days are intended to provide additional pay for them to keep up with work, such as student enrollments, over the summer.
Beginning immediately, greater flexibility may be provided to Elementary administrative assistants by:
● Trading up to 5 non-student/teacher work days during the school year to work in the summer months, and/or
● Converting up to 5 optional summer days into pool hours for office assistants to work additional hours from July 2026 to June 2027.
Option 1
Elementary administrative assistants may choose to trade up to 5 contracted days (three grade transmittal and two PTC compensation days) to use as additional work days the following summer. This could provide up to 15 additional work days in the summer.
Option 2
Elementary administrative assistants may choose to convert up to (5) five of their optional summer days into additional pool hours for their office assistants to work July 2026 - June 2027. For every full day that is not used as an additional day by the administrative assistant, 10 hours will be added to the pool hours to be used by the office assistants to work from July 2026 to
June 2027.
Option 3
Elementary administrative assistants may choose to do a combination of options 1 and 2, not to exceed 5 trade days in the school year and not to exceed 5 converted pool hour days to use for office assistants.
Tracking
For Option 1 - Administrative assistants will have an option in the Skyward Time Off System to log the grade transmittal day as a “Trade Time - Days” with the reason code “Trade Time Day Taken Off” for building principals to approve. When they work the day in the summer, they will need to log it in the Skyward Time Off System as a “Trade Time - Days” with the reason code “Trade Time Day Worked”. This information will also need to be documented on the Pool Hours spreadsheet.
For Option 2 - A Google form will be available in the checkout materials to declare the number of optional days that will be converted to pool hours for the upcoming school year. These hours will then be documented and tracked in the Pool Hours spreadsheet by the district AOS administrative assistants.
A Google form will be distributed as part of Principal Checkout. Building principals will need to approve these converted days on the Google form and submit it as part of the checkout process.
cc: Cabinet
Sarah Palmer, Director of Payroll
DATE:
April 10, 2026
TO:
Administrators of Schools
Elementary and Secondary Principals
FROM:
Scott Thomas, Administrator of Auxiliary Services
Katie Bastian, Director of Nutrition Services
SUBJECT:
Student Meal Deficit School Responsibilities
District approved procedural guidelines for meal deficit collection can be found on the Nutrition Services website under the online payments tab.
Reminder: Funds that have been donated to the school for the purpose of paying off student meal debt cannot be used to pay off a student account and then have that account sent to collections. The purpose of specific Nutrition Services donated funds are to help families that are in the deficit. The school can use any other school funds to pay off student accounts so they can then be sent to collections.
If schools would like to send any student accounts to collections before the end of the school year, Principals must submit all Skyward Deficit Tracking documentation to our Meal Deficit Liaison by Friday, May 22nd. This will allow time for the collections process.
Per approved guidelines:
-Students transferring within the district with a deficit meal account balance of any dollar amount, must be paid at the time of transfer and is the responsibility of the school the student is leaving.
-Inactive students, graduating students or students moving up grade levels to another school (i.e., 6th to 7th, 9th to 10th and seniors) with uncollectable meal deficits, of any dollar amount, are the responsibility of the school and must be paid by the principal at the end of the current school year.
-All staff meal deficits must be paid by the end of the year. If a balance remains, it is the responsibility of the school and paid by the principal.
TO:
Administrators and Teachers
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Kaye Rizzuto, Social Studies Consultant
Theme: Celebrating the Declaration’s 250th in the Classroom
Location: Utah Valley University, Orem
In collaboration with: BYU–Public School Partnership
Dates:
• Secondary: June 8, 2026
• Elementary: June 9, 2026
• 3rd & 5th Grade Follow-Up: June 10, 2026
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Teachers Receive:
• 0.5 hours USBE credit
• $100 honorarium
• Resource materials
• Lunch & snacks
• Mileage reimbursement (for those 20+ miles from UVU)
To Register:
Scan the QR code on the attached flyer, or for more information contact Michelle Smith at SmithMi@uvu.edu.
This event is an excellent opportunity to gain resources, network, and enrich your classroom with engaging civics content. Please consider attending.
TO:
Administrators and Teachers
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Kaye Rizzuto, Social Studies Consultant
American Constitutional Government and Citizenship Standards
The draft standards for the new American Constitutional Government and Citizenship course are now available for public review and comment until April 24th. Please take time to review the proposed standards and provide feedback.
Social Studies Graduation Requirement FAQ
Draft American Constitutional Government and Citizenship Standards
TO:
Kindergarten teachers, Instructional Coaches and Building Administrators
FROM:
Teaching & Learning
New updates are now available for Planet Kindergarten and launch dates have been released for the 2026-27 school year!
TO:
Principals
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Brian King, Assistant Director of Special Education
Mike Trimmell, Special Education Administrator
Attached is the Special Ed Newsletter for April 2026.
DATE:
Thursday, April 16, 2026
TO:
All School Administrators
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Assessment, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
USBE Educator Engagement Survey Results
The window for USBE’s Educator Engagement Survey closed on March 31st. Survey results are now available in Tableau. 1,255 JSD educators responded to the survey this year, which is a 38% response rate (considered a good response rate with an excellent response rate being over 40%).
Educators responded to a variety of multiple-choice and open response questions. Dashboard viewers may view results at the district and school level for the following categories:
Open responses may be viewed according to school-based permissions.
For questions about the Educator Engagement Survey, please contact Ben Jameson in Assessment, Research & Accountability.
TO:
All Administrators
Admin Assistants
FROM:
Sarah Palmer, Director of Payroll
Please see the attached documents from payroll for Information and deadlines regarding the Qmlativ transition. Please post the time tracking and sub deadlines in an area where the employees can see them.
TO:
Administrators
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Michelle Love-Day, Director, Language and Culture Services
Language & Culture Services will be starting new ESL Endorsement cohorts in August, 2026. It takes one school year to complete (August, 2026 - June, 2027) and is competency-based.
Format: Hybrid - virtual modules with one in-person session per month.
Credit options: USBE credit (free) or SUU credit ($69 per course). Both credit options can be applied towards a lane-change. Participants will receive 15 credits (3 per course) and 1 more USBE Credit upon completion of a Capstone Portfolio.
Please view the information linked within the application and reach out to Krista Mecham or Chelsey James if you have further questions.
Apply for the 2026-2027 ESL Endorsement Cohorts here.
DATE:
Thursday, April 9, 2026
TO:
Administrators
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Amanda Bollinger, Associate Administrator, Teaching & Learning
Jared Covili, Administrator of Digital Teaching & Learning
SUBJECT:
Second Instructional Coaching Endorsement Administrator Cohort
We are excited to announce the launch of our second cohort of Instructional Coaching Endorsement for Administrators. This professional development opportunity is open to all administrators and is designed to deepen your skills in instructional coaching and leadership.
Please see the attached memo for additional information and a link to the endorsement sign up form.
Date:
April 9, 2026
To:
All Administrators, All Admin Assistants
From:
Steffany Ellsworth, Support Services Manager, Information Systems
Subject:
Qmlativ Finance Workshops
Now that you’ve attended a few Qmlativ training sessions and had the opportunity to explore Qmlativ, it would make sense that you’ve got questions ~ Come get answers!
Join the Information Systems team for an open-house style workshop designed to help you navigate the Qmlativ finance database with confidence. Sessions will be held multiple times beginning April 17th through May 22nd. April Sessions are focused on hands-on practice in the training database, while May Sessions will have real-time support in our live database.
Below are the dates and times for these workshops. Reserve your spot as workshops may fill up quickly.
| Date | Time | Location |
| April 17 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Auxiliary Services, PDC 101 |
| April 22 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | District Office, Room 129 |
| April 23 | 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | District Office, Room 129 |
| April 27 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Auxiliary Services, Presentation Room |
| April 29 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Auxiliary Services, PDC 101 |
| May 13 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | District Office, Room 129 |
| May 15 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | District Office, Room 129 |
| May 20 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | District Office, Room 129 |
| May 22 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | District Office, Room 129 |
DATE:
Thursday, April 9, 2026
TO:
All Elementary School Administrators
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Assessment, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Research Project
The Research Review Committee has reviewed a research project in which your school has been asked to participate.
Project Title: Supporting Students’ Diverse Reading Needs Using Formative Assessment and Differentiated Instruction in Tier I Small Groups
Applicant: Lisa Hendricks, Michigan State University
The project has been approved by the District Research Review Committee. The applicant has been directed to contact you to discuss the extent of the project. Participation in the study is at your discretion. If you have questions or concerns relating to participation, please contact Ben Jameson at 801-567-8243.
Participation in the study is optional. Participating teachers will take a survey and, depending on willingness and eligibility, may be asked to participate in subsequent focus groups about their use of formative assessment in instruction.
Thank you for your assistance.
