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DATE:  
July 15, 2019

TO: 
Principals
Speech-Language Pathologists
Speech-Language Technicians
Audiologists

FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Kristin Norris, CCC-SLP, TS, Speech-Language-Audiology Program

SUBJECT: 
2019-20 Professional Development Dates

Attached are the dates and location that have been determined for Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist Professional Development. Attendance is optional with principal permission.

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DATE:  
July 10, 2019

TO: 
Jordan School District Administrators

FROM:  
District Administration

SUBJECT:   
2019-20 Annual Administrative Leadership Conference

You are invited to attend the annual Jordan School District Administrative Leadership Conference, “Lead, Educate, Inspire,” scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 6 and 7, 2019 at South Hills Middle School (13508 S 4000 W) in Riverton.

The conference will follow a full-day format on both days. We will begin in the auditorium at 8:00 a.m. on both Tuesday and Wednesday after a light breakfast, which will be provided starting at 7:30 a.m. Lunch will be provided both days, and meetings will adjourn by 3:30 p.m. Interns assigned to your building are invited to attend both days. Please RSVP to Nadine Page (801-567-8186 or nadine.page@jordandistrict.org) no later than July 23rd if you have an intern that will be attending so they can be included in the breakfast and lunch count.

Plan on bringing an electronic device in order to access the agenda and conference materials.

A map with driving directions to South Hills Middle is attached. Traffic in this area can be congested so please allow enough driving time.

Appropriate dress for the conference is business casual. We look forward to seeing you!

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Thursday, July 11, 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

An opportunity to dive into your school’s data has been made available. There are two sessions for elementary level and two sessions for secondary principals and assistant principals. School administrators need only to attend one of the available sessions:

Level Date Time Location
Elementary Aug. 5, 2019 8:00-11:30 am ASB Computer Lab D112
Elementary Aug. 5, 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

For elementary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:

  • Demographic enrollment for the 2019-20 school year
  • Acadience Reading performance data
  • RISE performance data
  • KEEP performance data
  • WIDA performance data

For secondary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:

  • Demographic enrollment for the 2019-20 school year
  • RISE performance data (middle schools)
  • Utah Aspire Plus data
  • ACT 11th Grade Administration (middle schools will be able to see ACT results for their previous students)
  • AP results and performance
  • WIDA performance data

School administrators will need to bring a laptop (except the Aug. 5th session) 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.

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DATE:  
Thursday, July 11, 2019

TO: 
Elementary Principals

FROM:   
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT:   
2019 Acadience Data Dashboards Release

A new series of dashboards have been released to your Tableau Viewer account that contain Acadience Reading data from the 2015-16 school year to the 2018-19 school year. These dashboards are located under the project folder entitled '2019 Acadience Reading EOY Analysis.' You will be able to see proficiency and growth data for each benchmark window and measure. In addition, you will be able to compare your results to demographically similar schools in the district. Please note that the demographic comparison is based off of a simplified comparison and calculation of your demographics. Finally, you will be able to see proficiency, growth, and measure data for each of your 2018-19 students.

In addition to these dashboards, you will also be able to look at progress monitoring fidelity for Below Benchmark and Well Below Benchmark students during the 2018-19 school year.

The dashboards will allow you to filter by socioeconomic status, ELL status, special education status, chronic absenteeism, and race. Many of the dashboards will also allow you to filter by proficiency and growth. If you want to download or print any of your dashboards, I have attached step-by-step instructions below.

If you are interested, I would love to meet with you individually to learn how to manipulate your dashboards, peruse your data, and answer any questions you may have.

To access the Tableau login page: https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO

Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions about these dashboards.

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DATE:   
July 1, 2019

TO:  
Principals
Special Education Teachers (Preschool and School-Age)
Speech-Language Pathologists

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

SUBJECT:   
Extended Year Special Educator Stipends 2019-20

The extended school year stipend that was approved with the passage of Senate Bill 2 in the 2008 legislative session will remain in effect for the 2019-20 school year. The legislation allows a specific group of special educators to work up to 4 additional days for a $200/day stipend (plus applicable benefits). Please see documents below for instructions and due dates.

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DATE: 
June 26, 2019

TO: 
Principals
New and 2nd Year Special Educators
Special Ed Mentors

FROM:  
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Julie Brown, Program Specialist

SUBJECT: 
Special Education New Teacher Induction Training

The Special Education Department has scheduled a series of trainings for special educators that are new to Jordan School District as well as other trainings for Special Educators in their 2nd year with Jordan School District. There are also training opportunities for special education mentors. Please release these special educators so that they may attend these important training opportunities. However, attendance is at the principal’s discretion. Special education will cover the substitute costs for trainings that occur during the school day (Budget code: 1292).  If the training occurs after school, the special educators will be paid at inservice rate.

Please see the attached training schedule for details on dates, locations and registration information.

For more information, please contact Robin Silatolu at robin.silatolu@jordandistrict.org or 801-567-8352.

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DATE:  
July 1, 2019

TO:  
Principals
Head Financial Secretaries
Special Education Teachers (Resource and Cluster)
Speech-Language Pathologists

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

SUBJECT: 
Special Education Budget Allocations 2019-20

Please see attached memo and budget guidelines.

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All schools within Jordan School District should complete either the Elementary or Secondary School Level Emergency Compliance and Safety Form (attached) based on the grades housed in the school. All completed forms should be submitted to SchoolConstruction@schools.utah.gov by July 19, 2019.

As a guide to completing the form, please see the EXAMPLE District School Level Emergency Compliance Form (attached) that was already submitted by the District.

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All portable classrooms are equipped with a Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) Kit and a fire extinguisher. These items are assigned to each portable. As portables get moved to another District locations as needed, the TECC Kit and fire extinguisher are to go with the portable to the new location. Some kits and fire extinguishers have been packed up into boxes or moved out in "go kits"/buckets. Schools are expected to find these items and make sure they are placed back in the assigned portable prior to being moved. If the kits and extinguishers cannot be found, the respective school will be responsible for the replacement costs for these items:

1 TECC Kit $180

1 Fire Extinguisher $53

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In order to better manage and maintain iPads in the district, schools will be required to purchase a JAMF School iPad management software license for each new iPad. This is similar to what is required for all Chromebook purchases. The license is a onetime purchase from Apple and would be included on your Apple iPad order (part number HL2M2LL/A). The current price of the license is $17.50 per iPad. Information Systems has purchased 2,500 licenses that school techs will be installing on iPads that were purchased in the last three years.

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DATE:  
June 26, 2019

TO: 
Elementary School Principals

FROM:  
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools

SUBJECT:   
Elementary Fee Waiver Materials 2019-20

Beginning with school year 2019-2020 the Certificate of Compliance form will be due October 31. August 1 of each year the Local Board Chair, District Superintendent and each Principal will receive an email containing their individual URL to complete the Certificate of Compliance. 90 days will be given to complete the survey.

To help you complete the online Certificate of Compliance you can find the following forms in the June 27th edition of JAM: Jordan Admin Memo they are also available at https://schools.utah.gov/schoolfees.

  • Elementary Fee Schedule
  • JSD Fee Waiver Guidelines
  • Sample survey, printed from the USBE website
  • Standard Fee Waiver Application (English/Spanish) REVISED MAY 2019
  • School Fees Notice for Families of Children in grades K-6 (English/Spanish)
  • Fee Waiver Decision and Appeal Form (English/Spanish)
  • Fee Waiver Posters (English/Spanish)
    -Please include, on the line provided on the poster, your school phone number and contact.

Attention:  Students who previously showed verification of eligibility do not need to resubmit documentation. It may be necessary for the principal (or designee) to contact the previous school of transferring students for verification of fee waiver status. Kindergarten students coming into the school, new students to the District, and students with extenuating circumstances will still be required to submit documentation.

Please discard all Fee Waiver Application forms from previous years as there are significant changes for Income Eligibility Guidelines.

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As per the negotiated agreement for licensed employees, two preparation days have been added to the calendar, taking the total number of contract days to 187. No meetings or professional development should be held on these two work days. The first day is scheduled for Monday, August 12th. All licensed employees should be working in the building that day, but please be very flexible this year. Principals are authorized to make other arrangements with teachers who are unable to be at school that day.

The second work day can be scheduled at the employee’s discretion. Employees should notify principals what day they plan to work. Employees can also schedule two four-hour days if they prefer. Many people will want to work both days before the school year starts. Please provide a list of days, to your employees, of when the building will be open and available. If you have any questions please contact your Administrator of Schools.

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The district-wide Licensed Educator Professional Development Day is scheduled for Tuesday, August 13, 2019 from 8:00 - 3:30 pm at the Mountain America Expo Center, located at 9575 State Street, Sandy UT. We will have two national speakers on the program and lunch will be provided.

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DATE:  
Thursday, June 20, 2019

TO:  
All Principals

FROM:  
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT:  
WIDA Data Dashboards Now Available on Principal Tableau Viewer Accounts

The Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department is pleased to announce that a series of data dashboards containing WIDA Access 2.0 achievement data from the last three school years have been pushed out to principal Tableau Viewer Accounts.

There are four subtests that students take as part of the WIDA: Listening, reading, speaking and writing. Students earn a Language Proficiency Level (LPL) of 1-6, with LPLs of 5 or 6 being the ultimate goal:

  • 1 = Entering
  • 2 = Emerging
  • 3 = Developing
  • 4 = Expanding
  • 5 = Bridging
  • 6 = Reaching

Below is a summary of what the dashboards contain at both the district level and individual school level:

  • WIDA Summary Indicators, 2017-2019: WIDA LPLs are reported by summary indicator: Comprehension (made up scores from the reading and listening subtests), Literacy (made up of scores from the reading and writing subtests), Oral (made up of the listening and speaking subtests), and Overall Composite (made up of the listening, reading, speaking and writing subtests).
  • WIDA Subtests, 2017-2019: LPLs are reported in each of the four subtests.
  • Number of Students Who WIDA Tested, 2017-2019: This dashboard is a breakdown of the number of students who took the WIDA test for each school year.
  • 2019 WIDA Proficiency by Student and Grade: This is a crosstabulation of each student enrolled in your school during the 2018-19 school year who took the 2019 WIDA test. The table contains each student’s overall composite score, summary indicator score, and subtest score. This list will be helpful in targeting students for extra time and support.

In the near future, we will push out an additional dashboard that will contain the years of service each EL student has received and whether or not they met their growth target for the School Accountability Report Card.

Please contact Ben Jameson if you have any questions about these data or about how to use Tableau. If you have not set up your Tableau Viewer account, please contact Ben Jameson for instructions on how to do so (or see the step-by-step instructions attached with this memo). Please see the attached document for instructions on how to download and print any of the dashboards in your viewer account.

Principals may share their Tableau login credentials with their assistant principals.

To log into your Tableau account, please click here: https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO

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Jordan School District Nursing Services has revised the blue Student Health Services card that is completed at registration for the 2019-2020 school year, going forward. The online registration has also been revised. New Student Health Services cards on light green card stock will be sent to your school. Please use the light green cards and recycle the unused blue ones. If you need additional health cards, please notify Becky in Educational Support Services.

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The Health and Wellness Team is able to provide financial support to schools for the implementation of Social and Emotional Learning through a program called "Second Step" for the 2019-2020 school year. This is an evidenced-based K-8 program with excellent outcomes in improving student's social and emotional skills and resilience. In order to receive financial support, the Project AWARE grant requires schools to implement the program with fidelity and provide grant team members access to data collection on outcomes. We hope that many schools will take advantage of this opportunity as the data collection and implementation process will be supported by the team. Schools will be considered and notified of their selection on a first come basis as funds are limited. Please take note that the deadline to request funds is July 1, 2019. If you would like to request start-up funds for your school, please fill out the form at this link:  https://forms.gle/wSeMMbsn2C81DZEv6