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Month: January 2025

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TO:
Administrators

FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Jared Covili, Consultant in Teaching & Learning

Check out the links below for the latest updates from Teaching & Learning for January. Learn Tips and Tricks, Sign Up for Upcoming PD, and Learn about Important Updates from the T & L team.

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DATE:    
January 6, 2025

TO: 
All Principals

FROM: 
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Brian King, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Special Education
Mike Trimmell, Ed.D., Special Education Administrator

SUBJECT:
2025 Special Education Transition Fair

Special Education is excited to announce an in-person, Special Education Transition Fair for 2025. There will be over twenty community resources attending to help answer any post-secondary questions for our students and families.

The Transition Fair will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 from 4 - 7 p.m. at South Jordan Middle School. For questions please contact Ashley Calhoun at 801-567-8208 or ashley.calhoun@jordandistrict.org

Please make sure to send the flyers out to your community.

Special Education Transition Fair Flyer (English)

Special Education Transition Fair Flyer (Spanish)

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DATE: 
January 1, 2025

TO:   
High School and Center-Based School Principals
High School Special Education Team Leaders

FROM: 
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education

SUBJECT:  
Destruction of Special Education Records

School districts are required to keep special education records until the student’s twenty-seventh birthday. In compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Jordan School District must notify parents and afford them the opportunity to receive special education records before destruction of those records can occur.

As of February 28, 2025, such notice will have been advertised to parents for students whose birthdates are prior to September 1997 (i.e., students who are 27 years of age). Any records for students over the age of 22 will be stored off site until they are ready to be destroyed when the student turns 27 years of age.

  1. A process is in place to prepare files for off-site storage. To view this process, go to the Special Education website and click the Records Destruction tab.
  2. An electronic list must be submitted to Sandra Rhees at sandra.rhees@jordandistrict.org. The list must contain information which identifies each student’s name, birthdate, and student number for all files to be destroyed.
  3. Our office will review the list and notify the school team once it is verified that the records may be submitted for destruction and will schedule a pick up for the files.
  4. Records to be destroyed will be retained for 5 years at the State Archive facility, then they will be automatically destroyed. Records can be accessed during that five-year period.
  5. Please remember that the Utah State Records Retention Schedule mandates that student transcripts be retained permanently.

If you have questions, please call the special education teacher specialist assigned to your school, or Sandra Rhees at 801-567-8294.

cc:
Renee Sass, Placement Office
Caleb Olson, Student Services
Sandra Riesgraf, Communications

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TO:
All Administrators
Administrative Assistants

FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Brian King, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Special Education
Mike Trimmell, Ed.D., Special Education Administrator

Attached is the Special Ed Newsletter for January 2025.

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DATE:     
January 9, 2025

TO:   
Principals
Assistant Principals
Panorama Survey Coordinators

FROM:    
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services

SUBJECT:  
Winter Panorama Student Feedback Surveys

The winter Panorama Student Feedback Survey window is January 22, 2025 through February 21, 2025.

Panorama (Early Warning System) and social-emotional surveys may only be administered to students whose parents have opted-in. Parents are asked to opt-in to the student feedback survey during the registration process. When the online registration process closes on Oct. 1 schools will manually enter the opt-in information into Skyward. Student opt-in lists have been provided to Panorama already and a mid-window upload of students will also occur.

The following information is provided to inform and assist you as you administer student feedback surveys:

  • The list of students who may take the survey (opted-in) will be provided to Panorama prior to the administration of the survey by Student Services. Only opted-in students will be able to log in and take the survey.
  • Schools should print out the list of students who have opted-in and provide teachers with the list of students in their classes that have opted-in. The registration opt-in information can be accessed through Skyward using this data mining report.
  • Using the list provided to them by the main office, teachers will be able to manage the administration of the survey. Using the opt-in list, teachers will be able to identify why students may not be able to log in and take the survey.
  • If there are students wishing to take the survey and they are on the opted-in list, but are having log-in issues – the school survey coordinator should contact Panorama directly for assistance at support+utahjordan@panoramaed.com. Student Services does not have the ability to manage access to surveys.
  • Students may choose to not take the survey even though their parents have opted them into the survey. Student feedback surveys administered through Panorama are never required and are always optional.
  • Parents/Guardians should always be informed/notified regarding the administration of any survey.

Survey coordinators and administrators should view the Administering Panorama Survey presentation for information, instructions, and guidance regarding the student feedback surveys. Other Panorama information may be found on the Student Serves website here.

Other survey information including the Spring survey window may be found here.

Should you have any questions please reach out to Travis Hamblin (travis.hamblin@jordandistrict.org) or Michelle Reyes (michelle.reyes@jordandistrict.org).

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DATE:  
Thursday, January 9, 2025

TO:  
All School Principals

FROM:  
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Assessment, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT: 
Stakeholder Input Survey Effectiveness Rating Reports

2024-25 Stakeholder Input Survey results may be found in Tableau here or by navigating to the Explore menu in your Tableau account: Explore>Surveys>Stakeholder Input Survey.

As a reminder, 53G-11-506 requires that stakeholder input be included as a component of educator evaluation. For this purpose, educator effectiveness ratings have been calculated for each school, principal, assistant principal, classroom teacher, and licensed support professional for whom at least 10 parents or students responded in the Stakeholder Input Survey. Effectiveness ratings were not calculated for personnel with less than 10 survey respondents. Educators have the option to include their effectiveness rating report in their JPAS portfolio.

Effectiveness rating reports may be accessed by clicking on the applicable school below (see next page). Only school principals have access to the effectiveness rating reports, but they may share access with other school administrators as they deem necessary. A hard copy of the reports addressed to principals will be sent via district mail and should arrive within a day or two of the date of this memo. These hard copy reports should be distributed to all personnel.

It is recommended that school administrators meet with each educator and go over their effectiveness rating report as well as the survey response data for that educator available in Tableau:

For classroom teachers:

For licensed support staff:

For questions about the Stakeholder Input Survey or the effectiveness rating reports, please contact Ben Jameson in Assessment, Research & Accountability.

(See the memo below which has the links provided on page 2)

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TO:
Elementary Administrators, Teachers, Coaches

FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Michelle Lovell, Elementary Language Arts Consultant

Join us for a Wit & Wisdom workshop where we will hear from teachers who have experienced success with instruction. We will also address some challenges and concerns as well as plan for upcoming modules.

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DATE:      
January 9, 2025

TO:   
Principals
Assistant Principals
School Safety Specialists

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services

SUBJECT:   
School Safety and Support Grant

On January 6, 2025 USBE sent out a notification regarding the availability of the 2025 School Safety and Support Grant. This is grant is not completed by each school and you should disregard the School Safety Support Grant email from USBE. This grant will be completed at the district level for all schools according to the safety needs assessments that were conducted at each school. Individual schools do not apply for this grant.

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DATE:  
January 9, 2025

TO:  
High School Administrators
Middle School Administrators

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Stacee Worthen, Secondary Counselor Consultant

SUBJECT:  
Course Catalog Updates

Information regarding updated Course Catalog courses and how to request course changes and/or new courses is included below. Please contact Stacee Worthen with any questions or concerns.

The Course Catalog can be found at counseling.jordandistrict.org/catalog/

New Course Requests:

  • New Course Requests can be made by filling out the New Course Request Form
  • Please check the course catalog before submitting a new course to make sure that the new course is not already in the course catalog
  • The New Course Request Form needs to be filled out completely to be reviewed by the designated Teaching and Learning Consultants.
  • The process may take several weeks to get a course approved and course number in Skyward
    • An approval/denial email will be sent when process is complete
  • If you have questions about any course, please reach out to the Teaching and Learning Consultants

Course Change Requests

Newly Approved Courses (2024-2025 & 2025-2026) as of 12.18.2024

CTE

  • Individual and Family Relationships (CTE)
  • HTHS 1104 - Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology (CTE)
  • Electric Vehicle Safety & Technology (CTE)
  • Construction Management 1 (CTE)
  • Construction Management 2 (CTE)
  • Construction Management 3 (CTE)
  • Economics CE (CTE)
  • Electrician 1 (CTE)
  • LINUX Fundamentals (CTE)
  • Cyber Forensics (CTE)
  • Careers in Criminal Justice (CTE)
  • CMGT 1100 – Construction Math (CTE)
  • Machining 3 (CTE)
  • Introduction to 3D Print Technology (CTE)
  • Radio Production 1 (CTE)
  • Radio Production 2 (CTE)
  • Influencer and Content Marketing (CTE)
  • EE 2780 (CTE)
  • Fire Science, Safety and Survival (CTE)
  • Fire Science, Introduction (CTE)
  • NET 2300 – Introduction to LAN Management (CTE)
  • NET 1400 – Prin of Cyber Defense & Ethics (CTE)
  • Floriculture, Advanced (CTE)
  • Exploring Work-Based Learning (CTE)
  • Power Motor Sports Repair (CTE)

Digital Studies

  • Braille Literacy and Assistive Technology (DS)

Fine Arts

  • Photography 3 (A)
  • Black & White Film Photography 2 (A)
  • The Science of Comedy (A)
  • Debate 3: Advanced (A, Sr. ELA)
  • Screen Printing (A, CTE)
  • FILM 2200 – Fundamentals of Film Studies (A)
  • Latin Dance (A, ILA)

Language Arts

  • Literature & Storytelling (Taylor’s Version) (Sr. ELA, E)
  • Intro to Public Speaking & Speechwriting (ELA)

Math

  • Data Science/Mathematical Modeling (M)
  • Mathematical Decision Making for Life SPED (M)

World Language

  • Introduction to Spanish - Spanish 1B (E)
  • French 1A (E)
  • French 1B (E)
  • Spanish 5H (E, Sr. ELA)

Social Studies

  • History of Warfare (Military History) (E)

Physical Education/Health

  • Fundamentals of Baseball (ILA)

Science

  • BIOL 1610 – College Biology I (AAF-S)
  • BIOL 1615 – College biology I Lab (AAF-S)

 

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TO:
All Administrators
All Directors
All Administrative Assistants

FROM:
Dan Ellis, Director of Accounting

The mileage reimbursement rate is based upon the IRS rate. Effective January 1, 2025, the reimbursement rate is $0.70 per mile. Please use the attached form when submitting for mileage reimbursement. All 2024 mileage reimbursement requests should be submitted as soon as possible. Click HERE to access the mileage form online.