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DATE:  
June 26, 2019

TO: 
Elementary School Principals

FROM:  
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools

SUBJECT:   
Elementary Fee Waiver Materials 2019-20

Beginning with school year 2019-2020 the Certificate of Compliance form will be due October 31. August 1 of each year the Local Board Chair, District Superintendent and each Principal will receive an email containing their individual URL to complete the Certificate of Compliance. 90 days will be given to complete the survey.

To help you complete the online Certificate of Compliance you can find the following forms in the June 27th edition of JAM: Jordan Admin Memo they are also available at https://schools.utah.gov/schoolfees.

  • Elementary Fee Schedule
  • JSD Fee Waiver Guidelines
  • Sample survey, printed from the USBE website
  • Standard Fee Waiver Application (English/Spanish) REVISED MAY 2019
  • School Fees Notice for Families of Children in grades K-6 (English/Spanish)
  • Fee Waiver Decision and Appeal Form (English/Spanish)
  • Fee Waiver Posters (English/Spanish)
    -Please include, on the line provided on the poster, your school phone number and contact.

Attention:  Students who previously showed verification of eligibility do not need to resubmit documentation. It may be necessary for the principal (or designee) to contact the previous school of transferring students for verification of fee waiver status. Kindergarten students coming into the school, new students to the District, and students with extenuating circumstances will still be required to submit documentation.

Please discard all Fee Waiver Application forms from previous years as there are significant changes for Income Eligibility Guidelines.

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As per the negotiated agreement for licensed employees, two preparation days have been added to the calendar, taking the total number of contract days to 187. No meetings or professional development should be held on these two work days. The first day is scheduled for Monday, August 12th. All licensed employees should be working in the building that day, but please be very flexible this year. Principals are authorized to make other arrangements with teachers who are unable to be at school that day.

The second work day can be scheduled at the employee’s discretion. Employees should notify principals what day they plan to work. Employees can also schedule two four-hour days if they prefer. Many people will want to work both days before the school year starts. Please provide a list of days, to your employees, of when the building will be open and available. If you have any questions please contact your Administrator of Schools.

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The district-wide Licensed Educator Professional Development Day is scheduled for Tuesday, August 13, 2019 from 8:00 - 3:30 pm at the Mountain America Expo Center, located at 9575 State Street, Sandy UT. We will have two national speakers on the program and lunch will be provided.

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DATE: 
June 17, 2019

TO:  
Secondary School Principals
Secondary School Financial Secretaries

FROM:  
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Daniel Ellis, Director of Accounting and Audits
Jason Mott, Accountant / Internal Auditor

SUBJECT:  
Quarterly School Financial Report for April, May and June 2019

Each school is asked to report the quarter end account balance and transaction detail with the Apple Volume Purchase Program and return with your bank reconciliation. If your school has no Apple account, please so indicate and return.

Please include the account balance with Apple on the reconciliation sign off form and print a report or screen shot(s) of the balances and quarterly transactions from Apple’s website. If you need assistance, please contact your Curriculum Technology Specialist – Bonnie, Deana, Harrison, Nancy, Jay, and Raimee.

Please photocopy the selected elements and send to Accounting by Friday, August 2, 2019.

Please include:

  • The signed attached memo to Accounting
  • A copy of your April, May, and June 2019 Reconciliation Worksheets
  • A copy of your April, May, and June 2019 Bank Statements
  • A copy of your April, May, and June 2019 Skyward Balance Sheets
  • A copy of your April, May, and June 2019 Outstanding Check Reports
  • Screen shot(s) of your June 30, 2019 Apple Volume Purchase Program transaction history and balance

If you have questions or need assistance, please call Jason Mott at (801)567-8388.

Thank you.

Cc:
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools

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DATE:   
June 17, 2019

TO:  
Secondary School Principals
Secondary School Financial Secretaries

FROM:  
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Daniel Ellis, Director of Accounting and Audits
Jason Mott, Accountant/Internal Auditor

SUBJECT:  
School Bank Account Balances for June 30, 2019

Please send the following information for each bank account balance as of June 30, 2019 to Accounting by Friday, July 26, 2019. If you have multiple bank accounts, please list each account separately.

School Name
Name of Bank
Type of Account (checking, savings, money market)
Account Balance

The balance requested is the balance from your June bank statements, not Skyward.  This information is required annually and will be used to complete reporting requirements for Utah Money Management Council.

If you have questions or need assistance, please call Jason Mott at (801)567-8388.

Thank you.

Cc:
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools

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DATE:  
Thursday, June 20, 2019

TO:  
All Principals

FROM:  
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT:  
WIDA Data Dashboards Now Available on Principal Tableau Viewer Accounts

The Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department is pleased to announce that a series of data dashboards containing WIDA Access 2.0 achievement data from the last three school years have been pushed out to principal Tableau Viewer Accounts.

There are four subtests that students take as part of the WIDA: Listening, reading, speaking and writing. Students earn a Language Proficiency Level (LPL) of 1-6, with LPLs of 5 or 6 being the ultimate goal:

  • 1 = Entering
  • 2 = Emerging
  • 3 = Developing
  • 4 = Expanding
  • 5 = Bridging
  • 6 = Reaching

Below is a summary of what the dashboards contain at both the district level and individual school level:

  • WIDA Summary Indicators, 2017-2019: WIDA LPLs are reported by summary indicator: Comprehension (made up scores from the reading and listening subtests), Literacy (made up of scores from the reading and writing subtests), Oral (made up of the listening and speaking subtests), and Overall Composite (made up of the listening, reading, speaking and writing subtests).
  • WIDA Subtests, 2017-2019: LPLs are reported in each of the four subtests.
  • Number of Students Who WIDA Tested, 2017-2019: This dashboard is a breakdown of the number of students who took the WIDA test for each school year.
  • 2019 WIDA Proficiency by Student and Grade: This is a crosstabulation of each student enrolled in your school during the 2018-19 school year who took the 2019 WIDA test. The table contains each student’s overall composite score, summary indicator score, and subtest score. This list will be helpful in targeting students for extra time and support.

In the near future, we will push out an additional dashboard that will contain the years of service each EL student has received and whether or not they met their growth target for the School Accountability Report Card.

Please contact Ben Jameson if you have any questions about these data or about how to use Tableau. If you have not set up your Tableau Viewer account, please contact Ben Jameson for instructions on how to do so (or see the step-by-step instructions attached with this memo). Please see the attached document for instructions on how to download and print any of the dashboards in your viewer account.

Principals may share their Tableau login credentials with their assistant principals.

To log into your Tableau account, please click here: https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO

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Jordan School District Nursing Services has revised the blue Student Health Services card that is completed at registration for the 2019-2020 school year, going forward. The online registration has also been revised. New Student Health Services cards on light green card stock will be sent to your school. Please use the light green cards and recycle the unused blue ones. If you need additional health cards, please notify Becky in Educational Support Services.

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The Health and Wellness Team is able to provide financial support to schools for the implementation of Social and Emotional Learning through a program called "Second Step" for the 2019-2020 school year. This is an evidenced-based K-8 program with excellent outcomes in improving student's social and emotional skills and resilience. In order to receive financial support, the Project AWARE grant requires schools to implement the program with fidelity and provide grant team members access to data collection on outcomes. We hope that many schools will take advantage of this opportunity as the data collection and implementation process will be supported by the team. Schools will be considered and notified of their selection on a first come basis as funds are limited. Please take note that the deadline to request funds is July 1, 2019. If you would like to request start-up funds for your school, please fill out the form at this link:  https://forms.gle/wSeMMbsn2C81DZEv6

 

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This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to do more with spreadsheets. Participants are encouraged to bring their own projects, but sample files and projects will be available during the workshop. All tasks can be completed in either Excel or Google Sheets, and it will be up to the participants to choose an application. Each day of the workshop will focus on 3-4 of the topics listed below. Sign up in JPLS: course number 101427.

For course descriptions and dates please see document below.

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"Attention Administrators:  As you are all aware, West Jordan Middle is being rebuilt, so they will have a lot of their furniture, appliances, projectors, and other surplus items that they will not be taking to their new building. Before we make it available to the public at an on-site sale, we would like to make it available to the rest of the schools in Jordan District.

Principals will be able to view and select items that can be transferred to their respective schools on Thursday, June 6th, two days before the public sale from 8 AM to 4 PM. The central warehouse will take care of the physical transfer either the same day or by Monday of the next week. Paperwork will need to be filled out and signed, so principals will be the only ones authorized to select items for transfer. If interested, please contact Steve Oldham in the surplus warehouse, as he will be on site at WJMS to coordinate the effort."

Published on

DATE:  
Thursday, May 30, 2019

TO: 
All Middle School Principals
All High School Principals

FROM:  
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT:   
Tableau Viewer Account Set Up

The Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department is excited to announce the rollout of a new data visualization system that will allow school administrators to drill into their achievement data in new and more meaningful ways at the click of a mouse.  We have purchased Tableau, which is a data visualization software platform that allows us to design interactive charts, graphs, and crosstabulations.  These dashboards will include various filters that will allow you to drill into your data at deeper levels.  Your first data dashboard will contain effectiveness ratings from the 2019 UEPC Stakeholder Survey.  Future dashboards, which will be released later this summer and fall, will contain data from RISE, Utah Aspire Plus, WIDA, AP, ACT, etc.

In order for schools to see and use these dashboards, principals will need to set up their Tableau account.  Principals will receive an email from Tableau Online prompting them to join.  Please see the attached step-by-step instructions to set up the school account.  Once the set up process has been completed, I will be able to push out your 2019 UEPC Stakeholder Survey Effectiveness Ratings for your school.

Principals may share Tableau account login information with their assistant principals.  Sensitive student and teacher information will be included in these data dashboards; therefore, principals may not share login information with school personnel other than assistant principals.  Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions at 801-567-8243 or ben.jameson@jordandistrict.org.

Once your account is set up, you can access the Tableau login page by clicking here:

https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO

Published on

DATE:    
Thursday, May 30, 2019

TO:  
All Elementary Principals

FROM:  
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT:  
Tableau Viewer Account Set Up

The Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department has pushed out several data dashboards containing the 2019 UEPC Stakeholder Survey effectiveness ratings for your school to your Tableau Viewer accounts.  For those of you who have already activated your Tableau Viewer accounts, you should be able to access those dashboards right now.

There are still some elementary principals who have not activated their Tableau Viewer accounts.  Principals will receive an email from Tableau Online prompting them to join.  Please see the attached step-by-step instructions to set up the school account.  Once the set up process has been completed, I will be able to push out your 2019 UEPC Stakeholder Survey Effectiveness Ratings for your school.

Principals may share Tableau account login information with their assistant principals.  Sensitive student and teacher information will be included in these data dashboards; therefore, principals may not share login information with school personnel other than assistant principals.  Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions at 801-567-8243 or ben.jameson@jordandistrict.org.

To access the Tableau login page, please click here: https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO

Published on

DATE:  
May 24, 2019

TO:  
All Principals

FROM:  
Cheryl Matson, Director of Insurance Services

SUBJECT:   
Volunteer Hours

Volunteer reports need to be submitted to Insurance Services.

Workers’ Compensation insurance costs are based on numbers submitted by schools.  It is important that this information be accurate and complete.

PTA figures must be separate from other volunteer hours.

Attached is a copy of the Volunteer Report for the period from April 1, 2019 to the end of school year.

Please complete this form and return it to
Cheryl Matson, Insurance Services by
June 15, 2019