ALL February and April Grade Level Literacy Training dates have been added to JPLS. Please have the teacher designated to attend register for the appropriate meeting AND then schedule their substitute through AESOP. Teachers attending should plan on bringing their laptop. K-3 teachers will also need their iPad. Direct questions to becky.gerber@jordandistrict.org.
Category: Elementary Schools
Technology FYI ~ January Newsletter
Technology FYI
Jordan School District January, 2016
For online version click here: https://www.smore.com/rz4mk
Mid-year SRI Window Nov 23 – January 22
Elementary Principals:
The mid-year SRI window is November 23 – January 22. This test is mandatory for all 6th-graders and scores will be used to inform Reading Class placement for 7th-grade. This test is optional for grades 3 – 5. Please be sure teachers complete the assessment before the window closes so we can report accurate data to the middle schools.
Kindergarten Math Collaboration Class
Elementary Principals:
Kindergarten Math Collaboration scheduled for January 28. Please share attached flyer with ALL Kindergarten teachers.
Kindergarten Comprehensive Balanced Literacy Class
Elementary Principals:
Kindergarten Comprehensive Balanced Literacy class beginning January 13. Please share attached flyer with Kindergarten teachers.
Continuing Online Classes
Elementary Principals:
Continuing Online classes: Comprehensive Balanced Literacy (CBL) and Close Reading to Writing. Please share attached flyer with all K-6 teachers.
Online Fluency Class
Elementary Principals:
NEW Online Fluency class. Please share attached flyer with all K-6 teachers.
Student Intervention Services Forum #2
Student Intervention Services presents:
Forum #2 Netsmartz
Brittani Johnson
Special Education
Melisa Genaex
Thursday, January 14, 2016 at the ASB Auditorium
2-4 p.m.
All administrators invited.
School Bank Account Balances for December 31, 2015
DATE:
December 16, 2015
TO:
All School Principals
All School Financial Secretaries
FROM:
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Heather Ellingson, Director of Accounting, Budgets and Audits
Daniel Ellis, Accountant/Internal Auditor
SUBJECT:
School Bank Account Balances for December 31, 2015
Please send the following information for each bank account balance as of December 31, 2015 to Accounting by January 22, 2016. If you have multiple bank accounts, please list each account separately.
School Name-
Name of Bank-
Type of Account (checking, savings, money market)-
Account Balances-
The balance requested is the balance from your December bank statements, not Skyward. This information is required annually and will be used to complete reporting requirements for Utah Money Management Council.
If you have questions or need assistance, please call Dan Ellis at (801)567-8389.
Thank you.
Cc:
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools
Jill Durrant, Administrator of Schools
Anthony Godfrey, Administrator of Schools
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools
Teri Timpson, Administrator of Schools
Quarterly School Financial Report for October, November and December 2015
DATE:
December 16, 2015
TO:
All School Principals
All School Financial Secretaries
FROM:
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Heather Ellingson, Director of Accounting, Budgets and Audits
Daniel Ellis, Accountant/Internal Auditor
SUBJECT:
Quarterly School Financial Report for October, November, and December 2015
Each school is asked to report the quarter end account balance and transaction detail with the Apple Volume Purchase Program and return with your bank reconciliation. If your school has no Apple account, please so indicate and return.
Please include the account balance with Apple on the reconciliation sign off form and print a report or screen shot(s) of the balances and quarterly transactions from Apple’s website. If you need assistance, please contact your Curriculum Technology Specialist – Bonnie, Deana, Harrison, Nancy.
Please photocopy the selected elements and send to Accounting by January 22, 2016.
Please include:
- The signed attached memo to Accounting
- A copy of your October, November and December 2015 Reconciliation Worksheets
- A copy of your October, November and December 2015 Bank Statements
- A copy of your October, November and December 2015 Skyward Balance Sheets
- A copy of your October, November and December Outstanding Check Reports
- Screen shot(s) of your December 31, 2015 Apple Volume Purchase Program transaction history and balance
If you have questions or need assistance, please call Liz Robins at (801)567-8267.
Thank you.
Cc:
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools
Jill Durrant, Administrator of Schools
Anthony Godfrey, Administrator of Schools
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools
Teri Timpson, Administrator of Schools
2016 UEPC School Climate Surveys
Principals:
The 2016 School Climate Surveys will be administered between February 1, 2016 and March 18, 2016. The attached communication contains links to the 2016 student, faculty/staff, and parent school climate surveys. Please review and verify the accuracy of assistant principals, teachers, and certificated support staff listed in each of your school’s surveys (student, faculty/staff, parent) prior to January 22, 2016. If there are any names that need to be changed, please let Alyssa Messina at UEPC know byJanuary 22, 2016 what changes are needed. She can be reached at alyssa.messina@utah.edu.
Kaurie Sue Hamilton School and Preschool are listed under "Elementary Schools". River's Edge School and South Valley School are listed under "High Schools".
You may share the survey links with your school's assistant principals but do NOT share the links with students, teachers, staff, or parents until Feb. 1, 2016. Feel free to visit, and mark, each of the surveys as often as you would like prior to January 22, 2016. Collection of actual data from the student, faculty/staff, and parent school climate surveys will begin on February 1, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. MST.
Please contact Clyde Mason if you have questions about needed preparations for the 2016 School Climate Surveys.
Utah Association School Community Councils Training ~ Jan 14th
Principals: Please share with your SCC members.
Utah Association School Community Councils
4th Annual Conference & Training
Thursday, January 14th
3:45 - 8:00 PM
Lehi High School
180 N. 500 E.
Lehi
Click Here to Register
Networking - Training - Dinner
Free for school community council members, teachers, principals, legislators, school board members, and others interested in school community council issues.
Workshop Offerings
- Planning for Language Arts, Math or Science focus
- Highly functioning community councils and their plans
- Understanding performance data
- Trust Lands 101
- Training for Community Council Chairs
- Legislation affecting school community councils and LAND Trust
- Planning effective professional development
- Expanding parental involvement
- Your role on the community council
- Addressing Gifted & Talented
ALS Compliance and Assurances – Monitoring Section
Your ALS teacher specialists have already sent you the monitoring forms with instructions for Compliance and Assurances Part 2, which is due January 31st. These were sent to you in December this year in order to give teachers time to complete them before the semester break. You should have received instructions, but if you have further questions please contact your specialist Sheri Sample ext. 8307 or Krista Mecham ext. 8321.
Social Studies Department Grant
The application will be available on the social studies professional development webpage beginning January 1 (also attached here) and is due March 1 to Pam Su'a in Curriculum. Ten slots are available for teachers.
Maturation Presentations
Elementary Principals:
Because many schools have requested a male presence for the boys' maturation presentations, we have established some options for schools:
- You may have a female nurse teach both girls and boys maturation.
- You may have a female nurse teach the girls program, and may secure a DVD from your school nurse for the boys program; a DVD that one of our male nurse has created. Teachers would show the DVD and give the boys the maturation booklet.
- We have a male senior nursing student who has been trained on our approved curriculum. You may pay him a $75 stipend for a presentation, and then have your female school nurse do the girls program. Your school nurse can give you his contact information. Some PTA's choose this option (and pay for it) over having a female nurse do the presentation.
We do have one male nurse who will help with as many programs as possible, but please understand that he cannot do all of the elementary schools. Please know that we are working on other options for your schools. Thank you.
Lockdown Procedures for Portable Classrooms
There are times when portable classroom doors may be scheduled open/unlocked, such as during a class change. If an emergency were to occur that requires the school to go into a lockdown, the Lockout Card will need to be swiped on the Lockout Reader in the main office to override the door schedule and secure these classrooms. Please include this procedure while planning and drilling for emergencies that would require a lockdown.
After-hour Building Access Protocol
It is recommended that a school administrator or custodian is in the building anytime it is occupied, in case of an emergency.
Administrator Evaluation Instructions
Administrators on an Interim Evaluation should have the Beginning of Year activities completed in JPLS. Administrators on a Full Evaluation will want to review the standards and consider evidence that can be used. All administrator evaluations are to be completed on JPLS. Those administrators scheduled for an Interim evaluation should log into JPLS and complete the Self-Evaluation and Professional Growth Plan before leaving for the Holiday break. Administrators scheduled for a full evaluation have the year to work on their self-evaluation. Several documents are provided as resources and include:
- Instructions for completing the interim evaluation
- Instructions for completing the full evaluation
- An optional planning sheet to assist administrators in collecting evidence throughout the year for a full evaluation
- An optional planning sheet to assist administrators in completing the full evaluation
ISC Holiday Hours
Please notify teachers and staff that the ISC will be closed at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, December 22, 2015 and will reopen Monday, January 4, 2016, at 7:00 A.M.
Proof of Residency ~ USOE Model
When asking parents/guardians for proof of residency it is the recommendation of Planning and Student Services to ask for 1 item from Column A and 2-3 items from Column B. See form below.