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Jordan District Appeal Hearings are postponed until students return back to school.

Home & Hospital

  • H&H teachers should not be going out to homes or libraries working with students.
  • Schools that are providing the H&H teachers for their students may want to consider directing their students to do the online work from their assigned classroom teachers.
  • At this time, if any parent is requesting H&H services for their student, please direct them to the online instruction that is being provided by their current classroom teachers.  After students return back to the school, those students will be placed on Home & Hospital if it is still needed.

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SafeUT is still available as a resource for students, parents and schools during this stressful time. There are master's level clinicians available to chat or call 24/7/365 and will continue to be available throughout the outbreak.

With schools closed they will be following the summer protocol until further notice.

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There have been several recent inquiries about interview questions. The approved questions are available on the admin only website. These questions have been generated and vetted by administrators over the years. We use these questions for consistency. Questions that are not on the list need to be submitted to a Human Resource Administrator and can be used after they are added to the list.

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DATE:  
March 12, 2020

TO:  
All Principals
2020 Graduating Interns

FROM: 
June LeMaster, Ph.D., Administrator, Human Resources
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools
Laura Finlinson, Administrator of Schools

SUBJECT: 
Intern Graduations 2020

It is a long-standing practice in Jordan School District to allow full time, in state partnership university teacher interns to take one (1) day leave to attend either their own university commencement or convocation, without penalty.  This year, this practice is expanded to allow all full time university interns including teacher interns, school psychologist and counselor interns, etc., the same privilege.  Interns attending both in state and out of state university commencement ceremonies are allowed one (1) day; therefore, some interns may need to choose between commencement and convocation.

If a substitute is needed for coverage, the intern is responsible for requesting a substitute through Absence Management (formerly AESOP).  The absence reason entered should be “other” and in the blue “notes to administrator box”, the intern should add the following information “District excused 0050 - personal graduation”.  For additional assistance, please contact Juli Martin at 801-567-8219.

See dates for the in state 2020 University Commencement and Convocation Ceremonies on the attached memo.

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DATE:  
March 12, 2020

TO: 
All Principals and Directors

FROM:     
June LeMaster, Ph.D., Administrator, Human Resources
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools
Laura Finlinson, Administrator of Schools

SUBJECT:   
Employee Attendance at Relative's Graduation Exercises

This year, all high school graduation exercises are on Thursday, June 4, 2020, with the exception of Valley High School graduation on Wednesday, June 3, 2020.

Principals and Directors are encouraged to direct parents or grandparents who may wish to attend these graduations, but who are scheduled to work in their own locations to District Policy DP335 NEG and DP335B NEG. This policy specifically states: "Personal leave shall not be taken during the first five days and last five days that students are in school except...to attend to personal or business matters which require the employee's attendance and scheduling is beyond the employee's control."

Since graduation scheduling is beyond the employees’ control, it is desirable that immediate supervisors will cooperate and provide employees who may fall into this category, an opportunity to attend graduation ceremonies of family members.

Licensed employees are responsible for requesting a substitute through the Absence Management system (formerly AESOP), if applicable.  In the blue “Notes to Administrator” box, the employee should add “graduation” along with his/her relationship to the graduate.

For additional assistance, please contact Juli Martin in the sub office at 801-567-8219.

Cc:
Administrators of Schools

JL/am

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The following are new administrative assignments:

TEACHING AND LEARNING

  • Assignments Effective As Soon As Possible
    • Ross Menlove, .5 FTE assistant principal at Ridge View Elementary and .5 FTE administrator on special assignment in Teaching & Learning appointed 1.0 FTE administrator on special assignment in Teaching & Learning.
    • Elizabeth Pollock, 1.0 FTE teacher specialist in Teaching & Learning appointed .5 FTE assistant principal at Ridge View Elementary and .5 FTE teacher specialist in Teaching & Learning.

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Many of you have probably heard how we should take precautionary measures with the ongoing outbreak of the Coronavirus. Not only should we be washing our hands frequently, but there are a number of other additional measures we should consider as well.

The virus has had an immediate impact on the global supply chain for a number of goods and services you purchase for yourself and that we purchase as a District. You may have already noticed empty shelves at your favorite store for some of these items such as toilet paper, cleaning products, bottled water, food items or hand sanitizer. Don't worry, the warehouse will have plenty of those types of items for your schools and departments. Although not as currently noticeable, your electronic and technology items will also be suffering sooner rather than later. Let's get ahead of it now!

Many of the technology items we use every day such as Chromebooks, iPads, iMacs, laptops or LED projectors are either assembled in China other Southeast Asia countries, or have components manufactured in these countries. We are seeing a number of factories shut down in these countries because of the widespread Coronavirus outbreak. This has lead to a ripple effect in the electronics global supply chain, causing stock depletion with our distributors. Experts have no idea when production of these electronic components or devices will resume.

It is time to plan ahead for your technology needs for the 2020-21 school year now if you do not want to experience long lead times next year. It is highly recommended that you order your needed technology for next year now while there is still plenty of stock in our distributor warehouses and while prices are still low. We anticipate seeing less supply and higher prices by the time school starts in the Fall (or sooner), and depending on the length of the outbreak, it may take until late 2021 for supplies to recover.

Current pricing for many technology items is available on the Purchasing Department webpage under Vendors > Technology Pricing. Please feel free to reach out to Tonya Hodges if you have any questions or need assistance with quotes. She can be reached at tonya.hodges@jordandistrict.org or at 801-567-8706.

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All school administrators need to complete an evaluation for the 2019-2020 school year. Please click on the link and follow the steps to complete individual evaluations. Evaluations need to be completed no later than May 29, 2020. Contact the JES department with any questions.

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DATE:   
March 4, 2020

TO:  
School Psychologists, Elementary Counselors, School Social Workers, Secondary Counselors, and Health and Wellness Team

FROM:  
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Fulvia Franco, Program Specialist – Guidance
Stacee Worthen, Secondary Counselor Specialist
McKinley Withers, Health and Wellness Specialist

SUBJECT: 
March School Psychologist, Elementary Counselor, School Social Workers, Secondary Counselor, and Health and Wellness Team Meeting

A meeting for school psychologists, elementary counselors, school social workers, secondary counselors, and the Health and Wellness Team has been scheduled for Friday, March 20, 2020, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Jordan School District’s Auxiliary Services Building (7905 South Redwood Road). Denia-Marie Ollerton, CMHC, Safe UT Clinical Supervisor, will provide us with training on intervention with a student in a suicidal crisis. The training will also address JSD procedures for responding to students expressing suicidal ideation. We are requesting that school counseling teams in the secondary schools work with their administration to allow up to half of their team to participate in this training.

Part-time Staff: I would appreciate it if you could adjust your schedules in order to attend this meeting.

cc:
Principals

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The last two custodial workshops for this school year will be on March 18th and May 20th in the ASB presentation room from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM. These workshops serve to train all the Head Custodians, and to update any new information pertinent to their positions. In an effort to insure that these workshops are productive trainings, the Custodial/Energy Services Department would like to address any ongoing, widespread problems or concerns that you might have. Additionally we are also looking for positive examples of individuals that are doing things right.

  • If you are aware of any issues or concerns that you feel need to be addressed in this workshop, please let me know about them, so that they can be addressed.
  • As a department, we are very interested in recognizing any custodial staff members that are doing an exceptional job. If you have someone on your custodial staff that deserves some public recognition for the exceptional job they are doing, please let us know. We are hoping that by having very specific examples, we can use these examples as best practices in our custodial workshop training to improve the service provided by all Custodian in the District.
  • As always, I am also very interested in individual concerns or problems so that our office can help those individuals with their training needs in a more private setting.

Thanks!

Steve Peart
Director of Custodial/Energy Services
801-567-8770
steve.peart@jordandistrict.org

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AUDITS ARE POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

 

DATE: 
March 6, 2020

TO: 
Applicable School Principals and Administrative Assistants (Financial and Membership)
All Area Administrators of Schools and Administrative Assistants
Caleb Olson, Planning and Enrollment
Steven Harwood, Support Services and Programming Manager

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

SUBJECT:  
External Audit Visits

Please see attached memo.

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DATE:   
Thursday, March 5, 2020

TO:  
Elementary Principals

FROM:     
Shelley Nordick, Ph.D., Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
Rebecca Smith, Consultant of Gifted and Talented

SUBJECT:   
6th Grade Universal Gifted/Talented Testing (CogAt) Dashboard

A new series of dashboards containing 6th grade CogAt, or Cognitive Abilities Test (gifted/talented screener), data have been pushed out to school administrator Tableau Viewer accounts. You may remember that the universal testing of 6th graders took place in November 2019.  These dashboards may be found here:

Explore > Universal 6th Grade Gifted and Talented Screener (CoGat) > 2019 6th Grade CoGat Final Analysis

CogAt data are reported using age stanines. A stanine is a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale. The 7th, 8th and 9th stanines are considered above average. Students in those stanines would benefit from advanced learning opportunities and most would qualify for the ALPS program. There are three subtests that make up the CogAt battery: Verbal, Quantitative, and Nonverbal. These dashboards will uncover student performance in each of these subtests as well as a composite score, which comprises all three subtests together. In addition, school leaders will be able to view student group performance and compare scores against the district average as well as other elementary schools.

Finally, school leaders will have access to student-level data for each subtest as well as the composite score. School administrators are encouraged to use these data to identify students in need of extended learning and to develop long-term interventions and strategies to further support advanced learners in their progress and growth.

For questions about the CogAt assessment system and the ALPS program, please refer to Rebecca Smith in the Gifted and Talented Department. For questions about the dashboards or data, please contact Ben Jameson in the Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department.

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Each year Jordan schools and departments are invited to nominate one non-teaching/support staff employee for recognition. Through a nomination process, Jordan Education Foundation Board of Directors will select up to five individuals to be recognized as Outstanding Education Support Professionals. Each recipient will be given $1,000 and a commemorative award at the Board of Education meeting May 26, 2020 at 6:30 pm.

Please visit the Jordan Education Foundation website for more information:
www.jordaneducationfoundation.org

See flyer below. Submission deadline is Monday, March 30, 2020.

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DATE: 
March 2, 2020

TO:  
Principals
Special Education Staff
School Secretaries

FROM:   
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education

SUBJECT: 
Special Education Budget Closeout for the 2019-20 School Year

Please note that Special Education purchase orders/requisitions for the 2019-20 school year must be received by Friday, April 17, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m. Please remember the following:

  • Budgets are not carried over from one year to the next.
  • Remember to deduct any previously submitted amounts from your Special Education budget (so that you know your balance) before submitting new orders. This includes reimbursements submitted through your school. No orders will be processed that exceed your budgeted allocation.
  • Please check with your school secretary to make sure all Special Education reimbursements have been submitted to the Special Education Department by the April 17th deadline. We have provided each secretary with a spreadsheet of currently recorded purchases/reimbursements for the total special education department at your school up through March 2, 2020.
  • When ordering supplies, follow Skyward procedures.
  • Be sure to follow the ordering guidelines outlined in the attached budget information page, as you close out your current year budgets.

Staff will be notified of the new budget allocation amount prior to the start of the new school year.  Keep in mind that new purchase orders/requisitions will not be processed until mid-July when all of the current year’s budgets have been closed out.

As you close out your budgets for the current school year, please note the following:

  1. All purchase orders/requisitions, should be routed to Debbie Fairbourn in the Special Education Department.
  2. Use the following codes for Purchase Orders/Requisitions, NPOs, P-Cards, and ECHECKS, submitted through the year.

Coding for P.O.s/Requisitions, NPOs, P-Cards, ECHECKS:

FUND TYPE LOCATION PROGRAM FUNCTION OBJECT
10 E (School #) 1295 1090 Use object code

 

If you have questions regarding your Special Education budget, please call Debbie Fairbourn at
(801) 567-8177.

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DATE:
March 2, 2020

TO:
All Principals

FROM:
Administrator of Schools
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Caleb Olson, Consultant of Planning and Enrollment
Scott Festin, Consultant of Planning and Enrollment

SUBJECT:
Student Enrollment for February 2020

Please see document below.