Jordan School District
TO:
Principals
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Amanda Bollinger, Associate Administrator, Teaching & Learning
Tricia Rojas, Specialist, Health & PE
Principals, it is mandatory for all Health, P.E., and Driver Ed teachers as well as Sports Coaches to have a current CPR/First Aid Certification (every 2 years). Please, share this information with the applicable teachers at your school. Teachers may enroll in the next available course through the Canvas Catalog.
TO:
Principals
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Amanda Bollinger, Associate Administrator, Teaching & Learning
Tricia Rojas, Specialist, Health & PE
Principals, it is mandatory for all Health and/or 4th-grade teachers to complete the Botvin Life Skills training. Please share this information with the applicable teachers at your school. See the attached document for upcoming training opportunities and requirements for this curriculum.
TO:
Elementary Principals
Elementary Administrative Assistants
FROM:
Michelle Love-Day, Director of Language & Culture Services
Please use this form to help you plan for the October 2024 Parent/Teacher conferences. If your school is not listed on the attached memo, please request Spanish interpretation using this link.
TO:
Administrators
Administrative Assistants
FROM:
Michelle Love-Day, Director of Language & Culture Services
Language & Culture Services wants to celebrate our 2024 WIDA graduates. Our students work hard and we want to celebrate their linguistic greatness in reaching level 4.2 overall and level 3.5 on the speaking section in WIDA. Please come out and celebrate with your students and their families. Each feeder system has a special date.
You can access your individual feeder system flyer using this link:
DATE:
September 12, 2024
TO:
Secondary Assistant Principals and Campus Monitors
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Sharon Jensen, Consultant, Student Support Services
SUBJECT:
Campus Monitor Training
This is a reminder that Campus Monitor Training will be held in two sessions on Tuesday, September 17. The morning session will be held in the ASB presentation room from 7:30 am-9:00 am. The afternoon session will be held in the ASB presentation room from 1:30 pm-3:00 pm.
Assistant Principal meeting is also held on the morning of September 17. Please coordinate with your team on meeting attendance. All Campus Monitors are required to attend one session. Assistant Principals, interns, & administrators are welcome but not required to attend.
DATE:
September 5, 2024
TO:
Administrators
Administrative Assistants
FROM:
June LeMaster, Administrator, Human Resources
Brent Burge, Human Resource Administrator, ESP
SUBJECT:
2024 Fall Recess Annual-Personal Leave before-after Critical Day
If you are a contracted employee and need to take Annual/Personal Leave on a Critical Day before or after Fall Recess for any reason not listed in policy DP335NEG or DP335B, you must submit a request as follows:
How to Request
During the window, the employee must send the request through email. Please include your name, school, position, and the date you are requesting the leave. Requests left on voicemail or over the phone will NOT be accepted.
Licensed employees submit their request to licensedpersonalleave@jordandistrict.org
Education Support Professionals submit their request to classifiedpersonalleave@jordandistrict.org
The employee will receive an email confirmation within two working days after submitting the request. If the employee does not receive a confirmation email, then Human Resources has NOT received your request and your leave will not be approved.
| School Holiday | Date of Holiday | Critical Days | Window |
| Fall Recess Licensed |
October 21-25, 2024 | Oct. 18 and 29, 2024 | Sept. 7 – Sept. 17, 2024 |
| Fall Recess ESP |
October 24-25, 2024 | Oct. 18 and 29, 2024 | Sept. 10 – Sept. 20, 2024 |
DATE:
September 5, 2024
TO:
All Secondary Principals
FROM:
Steffany Ellsworth, Support Services Manager
In an effort to improve our graduation and dropout statistics at the State Board of Education, it is important that we correctly account for each student’s enrollment. Each school’s current dropout cohort cleanup report will be provided to registrars by Monday, September 9th. The report will come from JSD Information Systems through MoveIT. This is a report of students who are currently counted as dropouts for your school for the 2023-24 Cohort. Registrars review each record on this report to determine whether or not an existing dropout exit code can be changed (thus lowering your dropout rate).
Please connect with your registrars to ensure they are working to enter the corrected information and return the report in the same electronic format as was sent via MoveIT to Carrie Norris (carrie.norris@jordandistrict.org) in Information Systems by September 27, 2024. They should also send a cc copy to Stacee Worthen (stacee.worthen@jordandistrict.org) in Student Services and Brooke Anderson (brooke.anderson@jordandistrict.org) in Assessment, Research and Accountability.
Feel free to contact the Information Systems Help Desk at (801) 567-8737 with any questions as you work through this process. The UTREx system is a great help in locating students. If your registrar doesn’t have access to UTREx, you may request access for them by emailing a request to ishelpdesk@jordandistrict.org.
TO:
All Administrators
FROM:
Jordan School District Cabinet Members
The Administrative Leadership Conference for administrators is scheduled for Tuesday, August 5, 2025 and Thursday, August 7, 2025. All administrators should plan to attend on both days.
DATE:
Thursday, September 5, 2024
TO:
Administrators
Administrative Assistants
FROM:
Steffany Ellsworth, Support Services Manager in Information Systems
David Bowman, Systems and Security Manager
Information Systems is excited to announce that on September 12th, we'll be implementing a new email security system to enhance your online safety. This upgrade will reduce the amount of spam and scams you receive. As we fine-tune the system, some emails will have "SPAM?" in the subject line.
If you're expecting an email that hasn't arrived, please don't hesitate to contact the Information Systems help desk at (801) 567-8737. We're committed to providing you with the best possible email experience.
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 September. Learn Tips and Tricks, Sign Up for Upcoming PD, and Learn about Important Updates from the T & L team.
TO:
Administrators
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Jared Covili, Consultant in Teaching & Learning
Teaching and Learning (T&L) is here to help you with your 32 hours of educator-directed learning. You'll find lots of great classes, workshops, and conferences that can provide you with the learning and hours you'll need to meet the 32-hour stipend requirement.
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
Please see the attached newsletter.
TO:
All Administrators
FROM:
Scott Thomas, Administrator of Auxiliary Services
Brandon Conti, Risk Management Coordinator
Many workers are injured or killed on aerial lifts each year. Please see the attached fact sheet from OSHA which provides information to help employers and workers recognize and avoid safety hazards they may encounter when they use aerial lifts.
TO:
Elementary Principals
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Amanda Bollinger, Associate Administrator, Teaching & Learning
Traci Rindlisbach, Specialist, Computer Science & STEM
For the 2024-2025 school year, Superintendent Godfrey has allocated three additional planning hours per month for Computer Science ESPs participating in the Elementary Computer Science rotation. Hours will be turned in and processed quarterly by Digital Teaching and Learning.
Up to three hours per month may be used by the Computer Science ESP during the months they work. Additional hours must be worked before or after their regularly scheduled work hours.
If you have more than two Computer Science ESPs, you will be responsible for funding their additional monthly hours.
DATE:
September 5th, 2024
TO:
All Administrators
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
McKinley Withers, Health and Wellness
SUBJECT:
Employee Wellness Rep Training 9/18 & Last Call!
As a reminder, each school or department is invited to select an employee wellness representative! The Employee Wellness Representatives will support faculty/staff wellness efforts within your school or department. If you haven’t already, please nominate your Employee Wellness Representative for the 24-25 school year!
The first of two trainings for Employee Wellness Representatives will occur on 9/18 where each rep will be able to benefit from the following:
Please forward the attached invitation to your selected Employee Wellness Representative.
As a reminder, the cost of substitutes is covered by the school. One substitute is a worthwhile investment for improving wellness in your school or department!
DATE:
September 5th, 2024
TO:
All Administrators
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
McKinley Withers, Health and Wellness Consultant
SUBJECT:
Schedule Your School’s “Wellness Check-up!”
Student and Staff Wellness, as a pillar of the Board’s Strategic Plan, continues to be a priority in our District and schools. In support of this priority, the Wellness Team will be conducting “Wellness Check-Ups” to deeply understand the current wellness efforts of the hardworking people in JSD (like you!).
The Wellness Team wants to learn from you! We would like to stop by in person to let you show off your wellness work. This might include visits to wellness rooms, meeting staff members, hearing about curriculum offerings, understanding current needs and programs, or any other concern or celebration. Mostly, we’ll be admiring your hard work!
Our intention with Wellness Check-Ups is not to take a lot of time, or add anything to your plate, it is to more deeply understand our school’s efforts, needs, and goals. This will allow the Wellness Team to better advocate and support you in your work!
Calendar a time at this link or email McKinley Withers (mckinley.withers@jordandistrict.org, 801-567-8245) for alternative arrangements.
We look forward to learning from your school!
DATE:
Thursday, September 5, 2024
TO:
All School Administrators
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Record of August 13th Professional Learning Day Attendees
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School administrators may access a Tableau dashboard that contains a record of all educators who signed in using the QR codes for both the morning keynote sessions and the afternoon breakout sessions during the August 13th professional learning day. The dashboard may be accessed here. Administrators may also filter the list by conference location.
For questions about this dashboard, please refer to Ben Jameson in Assessment, Research & Accountability.
TO:
Elementary Principals
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Kaye Rizzuto, Consultant in Teaching and Learning
Principals,
The Teaching and Learning Department will be providing some training to K-6 teachers about the new elementary social studies standards. These new standards should be implemented this year. Please select one teacher from each grade level in your school to attend. It could be a team lead or someone on the grade level team who could use some extra training on teaching social studies.
Please complete this form: https://forms.gle/9eBjhUjto5esWV6dA
TO:
All Secondary Principals
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Mike Trimmell, Ed.D., Special Education Administrator
Please see the attached document for the 2024-2025 special education PLC schedule.
TO:
All Administrators
Finance Departments
School and Department Administrative Assistants
FROM:
Steffany Ellsworth, Support Services Manager, Information Systems
We are excited to announce that we will implement Google as a convenient and secure way for users to access our Skyward systems on September 6, 2024. This new method will streamline your login process and enhance the overall security of your Skyward account.
In the Skyward Finance system, logging in with Google will be REQUIRED for departments, administrators, and school office staff, and optional for employee access users. In the Skyward Student system, logging in with Google will be optional for all staff.
Two Easy Methods to Login to Skyward Using Google
Benefits of Using Google for Skyward
If you encounter any issues accessing Skyward with your Google account or have questions, please contact the Information Systems help desk at (801) 567-8737.
