Author: shooper

DATE:
April 11, 2024

 TO:
Principals
Assistant Principals
Kindergarten Teachers

 FROM:
Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent
April Gaydosh, Administrator of Schools
Becky Gerber, Administrator of Schools
Jill Durrant, Administrator of Schools
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools

 SUBJECT:
Additional Preparation Days for Kindergarten Teachers

USBE recently announced, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, the KEEP test will no longer be required for kindergarten students. As a result, the option to allow the use of testing days at the beginning and end of the school year has also been removed by USBE.

To mitigate the impact of the loss of testing days, the Jordan School District Board of Education has approved up to 3 additional preparation days for each kindergarten teacher per session taught. 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 school year to meet with parents and students and make preparations for a child’s entry into kindergarten.

Kindergarten teachers will need to complete a timesheet for the days worked and submit to the school principal by Friday, August 30, 2024 for payment on the September paycheck.

Timesheets should be sent to the Elementary Administrators of Schools for approval.

cc: Cabinet
Sarah Palmer, Director of Payroll

Kindergarten Preparation Days

Kindergarten Prep Stipend Timesheet

DATE:
April 11, 2024

TO:
Elementary Principals Elementary
Head Administrative Assistants

FROM:
Jill Durrant, Administrator of Schools
April Gaydosh, 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 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 during the busiest times in August, in preparation for the start of the school year.

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 prior to the first day of school. For every full day that is not used as an additional day by the administrative assistant, 10 hours will be added to pool hours to be used by the office assistants to work prior to the first day of school. 

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”. We will ask you to also include this on a Google form in the checkout process for this coming year as a double-check with the True Time system.

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 traded and/or converted days on the Google form and submit it as part of the checkout process.

Elementary Administrative Assistants Trade Days and Summer Hours

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