Principals and Administrative Assistants:
Please see the attached summaries of budget allocations and carryovers for the 2019-20 school year.
Principals and Administrative Assistants:
Please see the attached summaries of budget allocations and carryovers for the 2019-20 school year.
Please save these dates on your calendar so that you may attend the Jordan School District Administrative Leadership Conference to be held August 5-6, 2020! The conference will be held at Mountain Creek Middle School. More information to come later.
Principals: Please post in your school and send the attached flyer to each School Community Council member, all parents are invited to attend.
Jordan Parent University
Preparing Parents and Students for The Future After High School
Thursday, September 19, 2019
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
JATC-South – 12723 S Park Ave, Riverton
Principals’ Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at the ASB. A light breakfast will be provided starting at 7:30 a.m. The meeting will begin at 8:00 a.m. See you all there!
Ballet West will again be presenting in-theater presentations for students from grades 1-12. Click on the link in the flyer below for the dates, times and seating allotments of the performances. If you are interested in having your class attend one of these performances, please contact Verlene Jensen at 801-567-8296.
DATE:
September 4, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Administrators of Schools
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services
SUBJECT:
10th Day Enrollment vs. the Estimate
All Schools, Traditional and YRE
Please see memo and totals below.
This training is for parents, teachers, related services personnel, administrators, and anyone else interested in helping kids with High Functioning Autism to succeed and thrive.
Please see flyer below for more information.
Principals:
We have scheduled two separate training sessions on the operation of the school's security camera and software. The training will include the use of the software, saving of camera footage and the transferring of that footage to the appropriate device. We receive many requests for help in this area.
The training will be held on October 2, 2019.
Session 1: 9:00-10:00 am
Session 2 1:00-2:00 pm
Both sessions will be held at the Auxiliary Service building in the presentation room, enter at the main entrance. It is recommended that at least one administrator per building attend one of the sessions and if possible send one hall monitor to each session.
Incident Command System (ICS) training for the 2019-20 school year is now available for registration on JPLS. This course is being repeated on 3 different dates, for your convenience:
Thursday, September 26, 2019, 8:00-9:30 a.m. - Course #115952
Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 8:00-9:30 a.m. - Course #115953
Thursday, October 3, 2019, 1:00-2:30 p.m. - Course #115954
The course will be held in the Auxiliary Services Building Presentation Room, located at the main entrance. It will be an overview of the ICS, the Jordan School District Incident Action Plans and roles. The course is available to administration, administrative subs and anyone else that has a key ICS position at the school/location, as determined by the administrator. We recommend that at least one person per building attend, but more are welcome, to participate.
Please contact Emergency Operations Manager Lance Everill with questions: 801-567-8623, lance.everill@jordandistrict.org
DATE:
Thursday, September 5, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Data Dives with School Administrators
The memo serves as a reminder to school administrators of the principal and assistant principal data dive sessions available in September. This is an opportunity to spend some time diving into your school’s assessment data by student grouping (i.e., race, students with disabilities, students receiving EL services, chronic absenteeism, and economically disadvantaged students). In addition, school leaders will be able to see assessment data down to the teacher and student level.
School administrators – principals and assistant principals – need only attend one of the available sessions:
Level | Date | Time | Location |
Elementary | Sep. 10, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
Elementary | Sep. 10, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
Secondary | Sep. 18, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | PDC 103 |
Elementary | Sep. 18, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | PDC 103 |
Secondary | Sep. 24, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | PDC 101 |
Secondary | Sep. 24, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | PDC 101 |
Elementary | Sep. 25, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
Elementary | Sep. 25, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
For elementary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:
For secondary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:
School administrators will need to bring a laptop and their Tableau login credentials. Assistant principals will need to use their principal’s login credentials.
Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions about these trainings.
Reminder that contracted employees should enter their own time off using Skyward's Employee Access whenever possible. Instructions and guidelines attached.
There is an ongoing opportunity for student groups to tour the Governor's Mansion. If you have a group already planning to visit the State Capitol, they could also visit the Mansion at the same time. Capitol Preservation has some funding for school groups to cover transportation costs if groups visit both the Capitol and the Mansion.
Liz at Preservation Utah arranges the tours and the docents. Her number is 801-533-0858, extension 107. If she is unavailable, please reach out to Lynda Horne, Mansion Manager, at 801-538-1649 for assistance. They love sharing the beautiful Governor's Mansion with Utah students.
The following guideline, approved by Cabinet, will help teachers and principals counsel students as they move forward in their DLI programs.
"The goal of the Dual Language Immersion program as defined by USBE is to create a K-12 language roadmap for Utah to address the needs for language skills in business, government, and education. Jordan School District supports this goal and works to create an environment where students can participate in the benefits of learning a second language.
In addition to the USBE Dual Language Immersion assurances and criteria, the following guideline will be used to make decisions as needed.
In the event that a student decides to withdraw from the DLI program, they would not be eligible to return to the program at a later date."
Click here to see revised policy DP339. Please share with the appropriate staff members.
Principals:
Please share the attached flyers with your School Community Council members. One flyer contains dates for Jordan School District trainings. The other is provided by USBE and has the list of the trainings they are offering. As a reminder, new principals and new chairs are required to attend one of these trainings. A video will be available for training purposes if needed.
DATE:
Thursday, August 29, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Utah Compose Rostering Delay
We received word from USBE that Utah Compose is not yet ready for classroom use. They asked us to disseminate the following message to all educators that could potentially use Utah Compose:
USBE was notified by Measurement Inc. that the Utah Compose upload is continuing slowly. Courses and students continue to be added but users will still see incomplete class rosters and/or missing courses. All courses and students will be loaded by Monday, September 2. In an effort to expedite the upload process, all school and district administrative functions have been suspended until the teacher and student accounts are complete. No school or LEA-level reports will be available until that time. Thank you for your patience. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact Kim Rathke kim.rathke@schools.utah.gov
We have sent this information to teachers as well. Please contact Ben Jameson or Kim Rathke at USBE with any questions or concerns you may have. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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DATE:
August 27, 2019
TO:
All Principals (Traditional)
FROM:
HR Administrators
SUBJECT:
School FTE Audit Reports 2019-20
As promised, this year the School FTE Audit Reports may be completed electronically!
The HR administrators are excited to offer an electronic school audit report to all principals, which eliminates the required in-person appointments of the past. However, in-person appointments will also be made available to new and experienced principals who prefer to review these reports in-person with an HR administrator. Instructions for both processes are outlined below:
Electronic FTE Audit Process:
In-person FTE Audit Process:
We are hopeful the electronic version of the School FTE Audit Report process will be an improvement for you and your staff. Please feel free to share any feedback regarding this process with an HR administrator. We will consider all suggestions and work to improve this process for future use.
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Please see attached directory.
We are pleased to announce a new 5th grade maturation program. Because maturation is part of the 5th grade core curriculum, the new videos and permission forms may be found on the Teaching and Learning website under Health and Wellness. Your 5th grade teachers may show the videos, as long as the parent permission forms are signed. Two 30-minute videos (one for boys and one for girls) and the permission forms can be found at this link:http://pe.jordandistrict.org/healthandwellness/. The videos are professionally produced, and are very good. You may invite your school nurse to attend, if you wish. The nurses are happy to come to answer questions. However, the presentation is up to the school to set up and show. Call Nancy Ward or your school nurse if you have questions.