Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
Don't forget to opt out of your district printed W-2 by going to Skyward's Employee Access by midnight on December 16, 2018.
Opt out and win one of many prizes! A drawing for the prizes will be held on December 17th and employees will be contacted if they win.
All Elementary and Middle School Principals:
It's that time of year, once again, to start the process of developing your school's Safe Routes Utah Plan (formerly known as SNAP Plan). The Safe Routes Utah Plan form is attached, as well as a link to your school's municipal representative. Due to recent changes to JSD boundaries, your school's municipal representative would like to be included in the initial planning process. As you work with your school's safety team and school community council, please invite your municipal representative to the planning/SCC meeting.
The Safe Routes Utah Plan is a fillable form that must be downloaded.
Safe Routes Utah Plans for schools in the cities of Bluffdale, Herriman, Riverton and South Jordan are due by Friday, January 18, 2019.
Safe Routes Utah Plans for schools in the City of West Jordan are due and will be signed at the Auxiliary Services Building (ASB) auditorium, Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.
Don't hesitate contacting Ron Boshard at ron.boshard@jordandistrict.org or at ext. 8-8876 with any questions you may have. For assistance with your school's Safe Routes Utah mapping software, contact Stacy Allen. Her contact information is included on the Municipal Representatives document (refer to link).
Daybreak Elementary will be hosting another Math Tournament this year on April 4, 2019. Please see the attached information sheets. If you would like to participate, the registration form needs to be returned to Daybreak Elementary no later than January 24, 2019. If you participated last year, these documents have also been sent to the contact person from last year (unless their email has been disabled or the spam folder accepted it.)
Thank you for all you help in identifying families to receive a Thanksgiving Heroes meal. There are PLENTY and I really mean PLENTY of meals available. Don't leave anyone out. At this point, you can send us 50 or more families and they would get a Thanksgiving meal.
To date, only 25% of the allotted Thanksgiving dinners have been filled for our district. What a blessing it will be for our most deserving children to have a meal on Thanksgiving day. Thanks for you help.
Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
Principals
We need your help to facilitate Thanksgiving Heroes’ efforts to provide a full Thanksgiving meal to deserving families – up to 1,100 families in Jordan School District.
School Liaison
The Curriculum Department is offering a $500 stipend to help support enrichment / gifted and talented resources in elementary schools. Please see the application for more details. Please contact Rebecca Smith (801-567-8368) with any questions you may have.
Appeal documentation due to Student Intervention Services by Friday, October 26, 2018 for the hearings on Tuesday, October 30, 2018.
Elementary Principals:
Please return the attached form to Lisa LeStarge (lisa.lestarge@jordandistrict.org) within two weeks after your conference dates.
Principals:
Due to fall recess the Jordan School District due date is October 17, 2018 for the fall reports. Please see information below regarding what reports are due and how to complete them.
DATE:
October 8, 2018
TO:
Principals
All Special Educators and Related Service Providers
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
SUBJECT:
Important Deadline--Please Read Immediately
SCRAM Data Due by the end of day Friday, November 2, 2018
Returning D Track Clusters are Due no later than Friday, November 16, 2018
Updating SCRAM for December 1 Funding Count
Please see memo below for important information.
Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
JSD Digital Learning Specialists invite you to introduce Common Sense Media to your school community, by selecting a Teacher Leader who will become a Common Sense Educator and then guide 5-10 additional teachers through certification.
Common Sense Media is one of the major providers of digital citizenship training in the United States.
The JSD Digital Learning Specialists, funded through the Digital Teaching and Learning Grant, are offering training for a team of 5-10 teachers at each school. Upon completion of the training, a team leader from each participating school will receive $500 and each team member will receive $100 to become Common Sense Media certified.
If you would like your school to participate, complete the Common Sense Media Introduction Form by providing the name of a teacher at your school who will serve as the team leader.
For planning and budgeting purposes, we ask that schools complete this form before Friday, October 12.
Attached is a document containing more information.
DATE:
September 17, 2018
TO:
Principals
Special Education Teachers (Resource & Cluster)
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Courtney Titus, Program Administrator Elementary
SUBJECT:
Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) Testing Checklist
Attached is the DLM checklist for all special education teachers who are administering the DLM assessment to any of their students for the 2018-2019 school year. You are required to complete and return the checklist to Jen Birrell at the District Office by Friday, December 21, 2018.This form is also available online at specialed.jordandistrict.org/staff/forms on the Special Education website.
If you need help with any portion of this checklist please contact your schools assigned Teacher Specialist.
Please direct any questions or concerns to Jen Birrell at 801-567-8905 or jennifer.birrell@jordandistrict.org or you may contact Courtney Titus at 801-567-8904 or courtney.titus@jordandistrict.org.
Please see flyer below for information on how to sign-up your school!
Deadline is October 5, 2018
Administrators,
In last week’s JAM, you received a memo regarding Avoid Deny Defend (ADD) and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) Classified Trainings. The purpose of this memo is to clarify the intent of the JAM communication.
Training is not required for all classified employees by the end December as previously stated. At this point, there are three options for training classified employees:
Live Trainings:
There are two remaining ADD and TECC live trainings for classified employees. The first training will be conducted at West Jordan Middle School on Monday, October 1 from 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. This training is primarily for Nutrition Services employees, but is open to all classified personnel. The second training will be conducted at Elk Ridge Middle School on Friday, October 26 (grade transmittal day) from 8:30 – 11:00 a.m. This training is open to all classified personnel who would like to attend.
Online Video Training:
After the live training on October 26, the trainings will be made available online to classified personnel for the purpose of receiving the training at their school. It is our hope that the edited video will be between 60 and 75 minutes in length.
Possible Additional Training:
A number of options for providing additional training for classified employees are being explored, including suicide prevention training. No details are available yet, but we will be working with the classified employee group (JESPA) to create more professional development options for classified employees.
All full-time classified employees should receive ADD and TECC training, either by attending the live training or by watching the online video once it is available. Although training is not required for part-time employees at this point, you may ask your part-time classified staff to attend the live trainings or watch the training videos once they become available. Employees cannot be required to attend the live training or watch the video outside of work hours without compensation. Again, part-time classified employees are not required to be trained, but can be trained at the principal’s discretion if there is time to do so during work hours or funds at the school level to compensate them for the training.
Please contact your Administrator of Schools with any questions.
The beginning of the year activities for interim evaluations need to be completed and approved by administrators by October 1, 2018. Please contact the JES office with questions. Thank you!
The deadline has been extended to September 30, 2018. Principals, please choose and submit a teacher from your school to receive the Teacher of the Year for the Utah Council for the Social Studies (UCSS). This is a wonderful time to recognize an elementary, middle, and high school teacher!
Nominations will be due to Kaye Rizzuto, President of the UCSS, kaye.rizzuto@jordandistrict.org, by September 30, 2018. Please send an email to Kaye with (1) The name of the teacher and subject or grade they teach, (2) Why specifically you believe they should be nominated, and (3) Your name and position (Principal/Assistant Principal). Nominated teachers will be contacted for more detailed information.