Jordan School District
DATE:
Thursday, September 23, 2021
TO:
Elementary School Administrators
FROM:
Shelley Nordick, Ph.D., Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
Rebecca Smith, Consultant over ALPS/Gifted and Talented
SUBJECT:
Universal CogAt Testing of 6th Grade Students Training and Test Administration
Principals, please share the memo below with your school test coordinator and 6th grade teachers.
DATE:
September 16, 2021
TO:
All Jordan School District Principals (with bus route students)
FROM:
Scott Thomas, Administrator of Auxiliary Services
Paul Bergera, Director of Transportation
Kathy Jones, Transportation Trainer/Risk Coordinator
SUBJECT:
State Required Bus Evacuations and School Bus Safety 2021-2022
State required semi-annual school bus evacuations have been scheduled for this fall. This applies to those students that ride the bus daily to and from school.
The evacuations will be conducted during the week of:
Monday, September 27, 2021 through Friday, October 1, 2021
Your school’s regular bus drivers will perform this evacuation one day during the week as they drop your students off in the morning. This procedure takes place at your school and is located in your normal bus drop off/pick up zone. All professional school bus drivers that transport students are required to perform evacuation procedures in case of an emergency. Bus evacuation will be through the front door this year. Students will then, under the direction and supervision of the bus driver, evacuate and meet in a safe place approximately 100 feet away from the bus.
Your assistance is welcome but not mandatory to complete this required evacuation drill quickly, safely and effectively.
We appreciate all you do to help us safely transport your students.
DATE:
September 15, 2021
TO:
All Principals
All Special Education Staff
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Brian King, Principal, River’s Edge School
SUBJECT:
ASPEN Training for Special Education Personnel 2021-2022
ASPEN training will continue to be required for all licensed special education teachers, SLPs, school psychologists, elementary school counselors, and for all instructional assistants in SEB and Autism self-contained support classrooms during the 2021-2022 school year. First year staff and staff that have not completed the full certification ASPEN training should register for the training on JPLS. Training dates and times are attached to this memo.
Although not required, instructional assistants working in any other special education setting may choose to attend ASPEN at the discretion of their building administrator.
If you have more than one teacher or instructional assistant that needs to attend, please consider having them attend on separate days in order to maintain adequate coverage in your school. The Special Education Department will cover the costs of substitutes for licensed special education teachers that will be attending the full certification under budget code 1292. Instructional assistants will be asked to use True Time to record their typical workday hours on the day of the training. Any additional hours spent in the training above their typical workday will need to be recorded on a timesheet.
Class sizes for the full certification will be limited based on the location of the training in order to promote physical distancing. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in the physical skills associated with ASPEN at the end of the class.
Staff that participated in a full certification or recertification ASPEN training during the previous school year should plan on taking an ASPEN recertification class that will be offered online. Staff should register on JPLS for the recertification class. After they are registered, participants will receive an invitation within two working days to participate in the online course. Participants will have two weeks during which they can complete the course work at their own pace. This course is expected to take approximately 3 hours. Dates for the online sessions are attached to this memo. Participants that successfully complete the course will be compensated for 3 hours of work (licensed- inservice rate, classified- hourly rate).
Mandt training will continue to be required at Kauri Sue Hamilton and River’s Edge School. Personnel at these schools do not need to attend ASPEN. Others wishing to keep their Mandt training current may do so; however, participation is not mandatory and teachers and instructional assistants will not be compensated for their attendance.
For questions please contact:
Daveed Goodrich at daveed.goodrich@jordandistrict.org
DATE:
September 16, 2021
TO:
High and Middle School Principals
FROM:
Chris Richards-Khong, Staff Assistant Administrator
SUBJECT:
Cognia Accreditation Fees
See memo below for information regarding fees and what is covered at the district level.
Your ELD lead will have 4 meetings this year. Principals are welcome to attend as well. Our first meeting will be Sept. 21st. All meetings will be held virtually. More information on the flyer below.
Optional training will be provided by the Business and Auxiliary Services Departments on September 30, October 4, and 14 via Zoom. This training opportunity is for school or department personnel including principals, assistant principals, administrative assistants, clerks, aides or others with responsibilities correlating with the Business or Auxiliary Services Departments. The draft agenda is attached.
If you would like to participate in one of the sessions, please send an email to Lisa LeStarge, at lisa.lestarge@jordandistrict.org and let her know which date you would like to sign-up to attend. The total number of participants in each session will be capped at 80 (plus presenters). Because we want the sessions to have the same interactive environment as in-person sessions, attendees will be able to submit questions via ZOOM Chat. Attendees will also be provided with a link to hand-outs provided by the presenters so they can be viewed during the training or downloaded for future use.
We hope you will take advantage of this training opportunity.
The following is being sent to teachers via JEM and Canvas. The information will also be available on the LETRS Information web page (access from Teaching & Learning Home page):
Dear Teachers,
Thank you for your enthusiastic participation in LETRS training! You are a pleasure to work with!! We look forward, with you, to see your efforts pay off as students reach their full potential in reading.
In order to help us with the tracking of the completion of Units for compensation, we’re asking each participant to fill out a google form (available on LETRS Information web page—access from Teaching & Learning Home page) for EACH Unit completed.
Completed forms will be submitted at the end of each month for compensation in the following month’s paycheck.
Please reach out to Ronna Hoffman 801-567-8242 or ronna.hoffman@jordandistrict.org with any questions you may have.
Keynote Speaker: Daniel Bauer
November 9, 2021
Provo Marriott Hotel
8:00AM - 3:30PM
See flyer below for more details.
Please click on link below for information that will help ensure your school is on track to complete key tasks.
Don’t miss out on these amazing mathematics professional development opportunities!
We have many different ways to learn: in person, at home, with your coach!
All schools are required by Federal regulation to take continuing steps to notify students, parents, employees, and other school community members that the District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or disability. Non-discrimination notices must reach them in more than one way, and the notice must also be prominently and permanently displayed on District webpages.
Both a long and short version of the non-discrimination notice have been provided here for school use.
Suggested locations for publishing the non-discrimination notice include:
The the training video "AA419 - Student Conduct, Dress, and Appearance" needs to be shown at your next SCC meeting. A member of Cabinet or Student Services will be available at the meeting to receive feedback regarding this policy.
Please contact your Administrator of Schools if you have any questions.
Principals:
Please make sure that the training video "AA419 - Student Conduct, Dress, and Appearance" is shown at your next SCC Meeting.
Collect input and comments from the video presentation and provide feedback to your Administrator of Schools.
DATE:
September 14, 2021
TO:
Elementary School Principals
FROM:
Paul Bergera, Director of Transportation
Kathy S. Jones, Trainer/Risk Coordinator of Transportation
SUBJECT:
“Safety in the Schools” – Bus Safety Video
Utah State Standards for school buses require students to receive annual bus safety instruction.
This year, bus safety instruction and awareness for students in grades K-6 will come in the form of a video. The video is available at the following link for each individual teacher to present to his or her class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-xtDcfE5sw&feature=emb_logo
In addition, please require all teachers in grades K-1 to have their students watch the Winnie the Pooh video at the link provided below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF_3MrYXDw4
When every teacher in grades K-6 has shown the video(s) to his or her class, please send a quick email confirmation to tammy.spearman@jordandistrict.org indicating that your school has completed this process.
Feel free to contact Denise Dallin in the Transportation Training Department at (801) 567-8856 with any questions you may have.
We would like to have this completed and turned into the Utah State Office by September 30, 2021.
Thank you for helping Jordan School District achieve “Safety in the Schools”.
The flyer below has information regarding URS retirement staff/planning meetings that can be scheduled at your workplace. Please contact Robert Goodlick (see flyer) at URS to schedule a meeting.
This is a great opportunity for new employees to learn about which retirement plan to choose from, which plan is best for their individual situation, and to become more informed on the plan they already participate in.
We appreciate your patience as we update the Perform system to ensure that all educators are assigned the appropriate evaluation.
The following documents may help you in the evaluation process:
Get vaccinated against the flu at your school’s on-site Say Boo to the Flu clinic & Community Nursing Services (CNS) will donate $2 per eligible immunization back to the school.
Reduced & no-cost flu vaccines will be available to individuals & families who are uninsured & unable to pay.
CNS is able to bill the following insurances (No Copay): Aetna, All Savers, Altius, Ameriben, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Direct Care Administrators, DMBA, EMI Health, GEHA, Health Utah, HealthEZ, Healthwest, Imagine Health, MailHandlers, Meritan Health, Molina, Molina Marketplace, Oxford Health, PEHP, Select Health, Tall Tree Administrators, Town & Country, Tricare, United Health Care, U of U Health, UMR, WISE Network, CHIP, Medicaid, Medicare, Part B, & most Medicare Advantage Plans.
Note: Community Nursing Services (CNS) Immunization Program is committed to providing positive moments and experiences while providing safe and convenient on-site flu shot clinics throughout Utah. Additional cleaning and preventative measures are being followed by all CNS clinical staff secondary to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
DATE:
September 14, 2021
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
SUBJECT:
Licensed Employee Advisory Committee for the Board
The Board of Education has an advisory committee made up of licensed employees from every school in the District. The purpose of this committee is to advise the Board regarding issues that affect licensed employees (salaries, grants, leave, etc.). Representatives will meet four times during the year and will be compensated at their hourly rate for participation. The first meeting will be held October 7, 2021 at the JATC-S from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Elementary and special schools, Valley High, and JATCs (North and South) will send one representative; middle schools two; and high schools three. Help us in selecting the assigned number of representatives from your school by using the following process. Please adhere to these procedures exactly as outlined.
Nomination
Elementary and special schools, Valley High, and JATCs (North and South) will need a minimum of two nominees; middle schools a minimum of three; and high schools a minimum of four. Additional nominees are at your discretion.
Voting
Please inform the representatives, the alternate, your faculty, and send a copy of the results to Roxane Siggard (roxane.siggard@jordandistrict.org) by September 24, 2021.
Representatives will be contacted with meeting dates, times, and location. The first meeting will be held on Thursday, October 7, 2021 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the JATC-S.
Thank you for your help with this matter. We are confident that this advisory committee will have a positive impact on the lives of our educators.
As we continue on our JELL journey this year, we are excited to start looking at which Power Standards schools have in common. Please forward this link to one member of each grade level team, and ask them to mark each standard that their team has selected as a Power Standard this year. Assuming they already have all of their Power Standards selected, this survey should only take a few minutes.
Our goal is to have a response from one teacher from each grade level per school by Friday, September 10th.
2021-2022 Power Standard Survey Link:
https://forms.gle/q3aqYCr7xEuqVhdw6
Please return the attached form to Marilyn Smith in the High School Area Office within two weeks of holding conferences.
