Jordan School District
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.
Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
DATE:
July 1, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Administrator of Schools
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services
SUBJECT:
Student Enrollment for June 2019
Please see attached memo.
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
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.
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.
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.
Consistent with Jordan School District Transportation priorities, our most important objective is to deliver students to school and back home safely and on time. Please see the document below for the Jordan School District Transportation priorities.
Year-Round
July 17th
8:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Traditional Elementary
August 12th
8:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Secondary
August 12th
12:00 - 3:00 p.m.
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.
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.
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:
Below is a summary of what the dashboards contain at both the district level and individual school level:
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
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.
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
Effective July 1, 2019
2019-20 INSERVICE RATE
$23.71 PER HOUR
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to do more with spreadsheets. Participants are encouraged to bring their own projects, but sample files and projects will be available during the workshop. All tasks can be completed in either Excel or Google Sheets, and it will be up to the participants to choose an application. Each day of the workshop will focus on 3-4 of the topics listed below. Sign up in JPLS: course number 101427.
For course descriptions and dates please see document below.
DATE:
June 3, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Administrator of Schools
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services
SUBJECT:
Student Enrollment for May 2019
Please see attached memo.
"Attention Administrators: As you are all aware, West Jordan Middle is being rebuilt, so they will have a lot of their furniture, appliances, projectors, and other surplus items that they will not be taking to their new building. Before we make it available to the public at an on-site sale, we would like to make it available to the rest of the schools in Jordan District.
Principals will be able to view and select items that can be transferred to their respective schools on Thursday, June 6th, two days before the public sale from 8 AM to 4 PM. The central warehouse will take care of the physical transfer either the same day or by Monday of the next week. Paperwork will need to be filled out and signed, so principals will be the only ones authorized to select items for transfer. If interested, please contact Steve Oldham in the surplus warehouse, as he will be on site at WJMS to coordinate the effort."
Enrollment Information Available online at: http://www.jordandistrict.org/departments/insurance
Please see flyer below for more information.
DATE:
Thursday, May 30, 2019
TO:
All Elementary Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Tableau Viewer Account Set Up
The Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department has pushed out several data dashboards containing the 2019 UEPC Stakeholder Survey effectiveness ratings for your school to your Tableau Viewer accounts. For those of you who have already activated your Tableau Viewer accounts, you should be able to access those dashboards right now.
There are still some elementary principals who have not activated their Tableau Viewer accounts. Principals will receive an email from Tableau Online prompting them to join. Please see the attached step-by-step instructions to set up the school account. Once the set up process has been completed, I will be able to push out your 2019 UEPC Stakeholder Survey Effectiveness Ratings for your school.
Principals may share Tableau account login information with their assistant principals. Sensitive student and teacher information will be included in these data dashboards; therefore, principals may not share login information with school personnel other than assistant principals. Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions at 801-567-8243 or ben.jameson@jordandistrict.org.
To access the Tableau login page, please click here: https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO
Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
