Jordan School District
DATE:
May 13, 2020
TO:
Principals
All Certified Special Education Staff
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
SUBJECT:
Year-End Checkout for Traditional Schools/Year-Round Schools
See Items listed that need your attention as you prepare to close out the 2019-20 school year. Please contact your school's Special Education Teacher Specialist for clarification if you have questions or concerns.
The State reports that there are many data entry issues in Jordan District when entering student discipline/incidents into Skyward. Either incidents are not being entered into Skyward or the data is entered incorrectly. As an example of the latter, we have approximately 2300 incidents in Skyward for this school year whose offense code is one that should be reported to the state. However, at least half of those have not been assigned an incident number which is a key field Skyward uses to determine if it should submit the record to the state.
PLEASE go back and review your discipline logs and make sure that all codes and incident numbers are entered correctly in Skyward. This information is collected state-wide and reported to the State Superintendent, Governor and other state officials.
THANK YOU!! Mary Ann Erdmann
Please advise your staff that Insurance Open Enrollment for this year is changing to May 15- June 30. Let your staff know that they need to get a confirmation that they have gone in and updated or verified that everything is correct. Attached are Open Enrollment Highlights.
Insurance Open Enrollment May 15- June 30 for a September Effective Date
Enrollment elections will be made using www.infinityhr.com, the JSD online enrollment tool. All benefit eligible employees should log into the online system to verify dependents, beneficiaries and verify benefit elections. Included in attached Open Enrollment Highlights are InfinityHR enrollment instructions.
The following changes may be made during the open enrollment period.
DATE:
May 11, 2020
TO:
School Psychologists, Elementary Counselors, and School Social Workers
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Fulvia Franco, Program Specialist – Guidance
SUBJECT:
May School Psychologist, Elementary Counselor, and School Social Workers Meeting
The meeting for school psychologists, elementary counselors, and school social workers that was scheduled for Friday, May 15, 2020, from 12:00 noon to 3:30 p.m. at the Jordan School District’s Auxiliary Services Building (7905 South Redwood Road) has been canceled due to the soft closure of our schools. Our Fall Guidance meetings are scheduled for August 4, 5, 6, and 7, 2020. More information about the Fall Guidance meetings will be included in your assignment letters.
cc:
Principals
DATE:
May 1, 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 April 2020
Please see document below.
DATE:
Thursday, May 14, 2020
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Shelley Nordick, Ph.D., Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Release of the 2020 Stakeholder Survey School Reports
In the next few days, principals will receive an email containing a shared Google folder. The folder will contain the following:
Principals should distribute individual educator reports in one of two ways:
No Educator Effectiveness Scores will be released this year because that requirement has been waived by the USBE for this school year because of the soft closure of schools.
Survey data will be released to principals via Tableau Viewer accounts sometime next week. If principals would like survey data to be released to their assistant principals, please contact Ben Jameson; otherwise, only principals will be given access to the survey dashboards.
Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions or concerns.
DATE:
Thursday, May 14, 2020
TO:
High School Principals
FROM:
Shelley Nordick, Ph.D., Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
Pam Su’a, Consultant, Social Studies
SUBJECT:
Civics Test Graduation Requirement Waiver
Jordan School District applied for a waiver from the USBE for the graduation requirement for seniors to pass the Civics Test. We received the following notice from USBE earlier this week:
The Utah State Board of Education met yesterday, May 7, 2020, and approved the civics test graduation requirement waiver requests made on behalf of those students who were not able to access the assessment.
Passing the Civics Test will still be a graduation requirement for future cohorts beyond the Class of 2020. Please contact Ben Jameson or Brooke Anderson in Evaluation, Research & Accountability for questions about the Civics Test administration. All other questions regarding the Civics Test may be directed to Pam Su’a in Teaching & Learning.
Below is information from the Resilient Utah Team along with a message from Governor Gary R. Herbert. We're sending you this information, they are asking to be sent out to parents, for your information only. You do not need to send it out. It is being sent to all parents through our Communications Department.
Dear Utah Principals,
Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert has declared May 2020 as Utah Resilience Month. Please click on the link below to review important information for principals state-wide.
We are so appreciative of your efforts to support your administrators, faculty and teachers as they and provide students with what they need to succeed during these unprecedented times. Our educators are our heroes.
https://www.resilient-utah.org/urm-principals-message/
Many thanks,
The Resilient Utah Team
www.Resilient-Utah.org
Dear Principals:
At this time, we are not taking any requests for rentals. No rentals or requests for use of our facilities/fields will be allowed until after June 5, 2020. This will be re-evaluated following that date and you will receive further communication regarding rentals at that time. If you notice that patrons are participating in organized sports on your fields, this has not been approved. Please help us control our properties and disallow this practice. You are encouraged to ask them to leave. You may also call 801-567-8865 for assistance to clear your fields.
Please plan to attend a virtual Assistant Principals’ Meeting on May 21st. The meeting for secondary assistant principals will begin at 9:00 a.m. The meeting for elementary assistant principals will begin at 10:30 a.m. Links will be sent out.
Please plan to attend a virtual Principals' Meeting on May 19th beginning at 9:00 a.m. A link will be sent out.
Our annual Administrative Leadership Conference will be held on Wednesday, August 5, 2020. We will meet for ONE full day. Please be sure this date is on your calendar. More details to come.
DATE:
Thursday, May 7, 2020
TO:
High School Principals
FROM:
Shelley Nordick, Ph. D., Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Research Project
The Research Review Committee has reviewed a research project in which your school has been asked to participate.
Project Title: SHINE (Sun-safe Habit Intervention and Education)
Applicant: Yelena Wu and Bridget Parson, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
The project has been approved by the District Research Review Committee. The applicant has been directed to contact you to discuss the extent of the project and to obtain your permission to conduct the study at your school. Participation in the study is at your discretion. If you have questions or concerns relating to participation, please contact Ben Jameson at 801-567-8243.
The project will involve teaching a school-based skin cancer prevention program to students in high school health classes. The project will require signed parent permission for students’ data to be used in the study, though all students may participate in the lessons as they pertain to the health core.
Thank you for your assistance.
Please see document below.
Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
DATE:
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
TO:
High School Principals
High School Finance Secretaries
FROM:
Jason Skidmore, CTE Director
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools
Dan Ellis, Director of Accounting & Audits
SUBJECT:
Preschool and Child Care Budget Changes
Beginning the 2020-21 school year, the budgets for the preschool and child care programs will be managed by the CTE Department.
Should you have any questions regarding these changes, please contact the CTE Office at (801) 256-5951 or at cte@jordandistrict.org.
Assignment Effective July 1, 2020:
Jessica Vidal, senior improvement coach at Education Direction, appointed assistant principal at Heartland Elementary.
DATE:
April 27, 2020
TO:
Principals
Elementary and Middle School Resource Team Leaders
High School Special Education Team Leaders
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
SUBJECT:
Special Education Resource Instructional Assistants for 2020-21
Special Education Support Class Instructional Assistants for 2020-21
Please see attached memo and additional documents.
