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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.

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Success with SAGE
For Secondary Language Arts Teachers

This learning opportunity will give teachers time to explore the SAGE assessment and its tools.  Participants will get the chance to take a practice test and plan activities to help their students better understand the testing tools available.

Curriculum and Staff Development will pay for ½ day subs for those attending sessions during the day.  Teachers attending the evening classes will be paid at the in-service rate for their time in class.

There are seven sessions scheduled:

Thursday, February 4 – 8:00-11:00
Thursday, February 4 – 12:00-3:00
Monday, February 8 – 8:00-11:00
Monday, February 8 – 12:00-3:00
Monday, February 8 – 3:30-6:30
Wednesday, February 10 – 12:00-3:00
Wednesday, February 10 – 3:30-6:30

JPLS course #100998

Facilitator – Donna Hunter, Secondary English Arts, Curriculum and Staff Development.

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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

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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.

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The social studies department has received a grant for an "Academy on the History of Civic Involvement."  This week-long summer professional development opportunity is offered to teachers of social studies from 4th-grade through high school.  Dates are June 6-10, hours 8:00 a.-3:30 p.m.  Teachers will receive a $750 stipend for successful completion of course requirements. 2 lane change credits are available.

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.

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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.

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As a reminder, Alarm Response (801-567-8865) needs to be notified anytime a building is open or entered outside of the designated hours indicated in the Building/Card Access Chart and Procedural Guidelines.
Alarm security codes are assigned to school administration, custodians, head sweepers and lunch managers.  Changes in security codes require authorization from the school principal using a Security Code Change Form.  Please send the completed form to jeffrey.beesley@jordandistrict.org, in Facility Services at the Auxiliary Services Building.

It is recommended that a school administrator or custodian is in the building anytime it is occupied, in case of an emergency.

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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:

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Principals: It's not too late to consider attending the Literacy Promise Conference. Contact Amanda Hansen in Curriculum if you would like to be registered for this conference.

 

 

The Literacy Promise
Opening Doors for
K-12 Learners

March 9, 10, 11, 2016
Salt Lake City, UT
Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center

Curriculum and Staff Development will pay for the principal from each school to attend this conference. Principals, if you are interested in attending, please contact Amanda Hansen at 801-567-8319 and she will register you at the discounted price.

Keynote 6:30 pm, Wednesday, March 9
Sessions March 10 and 11, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm

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DATE: 
December 10, 2015

TO:
Administrative Assistants

FROM:
John Larsen, Business Administrator

SUBJECT:
Business Meeting for Administrative Assistants

Last spring, we held our first business meeting for administrative assistants.  We appreciated the great attendance at these meetings and the suggestions for topics that we received.  In our continuing effort to provide a forum for administrative assistants to receive applicable information and training, we have scheduled another set of business meetings to be held:

Monday, January 11, 2016 – 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Friday, January 22, 2016 – 9:00-11:00 a.m.

The meetings will be held at the District Office in room 129.  As before, this meeting is voluntary and not required; however, we hope you will take advantage of this specialized training.  The meetings are also open to administrators and/or others that may benefit from the topics to be presented.

The topics that will be discussed in these sessions are geared more towards school-related matters, but District administrative assistants are welcome to participate.  These topics include:

  • ID badge protocol
  • Accounting: journal entries, school budgets, 1099s, etc.
  • School Skyward Financial Reports
  • Field trip ins and outs
  • Human Resources: Substitutes in Aesop

If you plan to attend, please choose one of the two dates that will work best with your schedule and send an email to Jeri Clayton (jeri.clayton@jordandistrict.org) to let her know which date you will attend so that we can plan for the number of attendees at each session.  You can also call Jeri at 801-567-8120.

We look forward to seeing you at these meetings in January.  Enjoy the upcoming winter break.

/jc

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Safety Information Surveys

The JSD Safe Schools Advisory Committee would like to inform all principals that they will soon receive two (2) surveys, which relate to school safety, via email:

  • 2015-16 JSD School Safety/Emergency Plans Survey
  • Information Survey for JSD Safe Schools Advisory Committee

The first survey contains critical information we are required to update each year.  The second will be used to help the JSD Safe Schools Advisory Committee identify and establish new goals.  The feedback we receive will assist us in aligning resources and to provide training as needed.  The purpose of both surveys is simply to gather information.

Surveys will be sent to each principal by Peggy Margetts.  If the person responsible for school safety is someone other than you, forward this survey to that designee.  Please feel free to contact Peggy with any questions at (801) 567-8753.

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DATE:
December 2, 2015

TO:
All Principals

FROM:
Administrator of Schools
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent of Schools
Luann Leavitt, Consultant of Planning and Student Services

SUBJECT:
November 30, 2015 Enrollment

See attached memo.

 

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Open Enrollment
2016-2017 School Year

Per Utah State Law  53A-2-207:

Open enrollment begins on December 1, 2015 and goes through Friday, February 19, 2016.  Any individual interested in completing a permit for the 2015-16 school year may obtain a permit from the school they wish to attend and begin turning them in on Monday, December 1, 2015, to the desired school.

Permit approval is on a first-come, first-served basis.  The school shall notify any permit applicant within six weeks after receipt of the application by the district or by March 31, whichever is later, for applications submitted during the early enrollment period.

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Reminder: School Improvement Committee for Secondary Schools will take place Friday, November 20, and Tuesday, November 24, in the ASB Auditorium beginning at 8:00 AM. Please plan on attending one of these sessions.

Make up day for secondary and elementary schools will be November 30, 8:00 AM, in the ASB Auditorium.

Title I elementary schools and secondary schools participating in accreditation do not need to attend a session.

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DATE:       
November 10, 2015

TO:   
All Principals
All Special Education Staff

FROM: 
Laura Finlinson, Administrator of Curric./Staff Development & Special Programs
Lisa Robinson, Director of Special Education
Julie Brown, Program Specialist

SUBJECT:  
Training for Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM)

The Special Education Department will provide training to special educators in preparation for the upcoming Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) assessment.  There are additional required components that the special educator must complete prior to giving the assessment. Since Utah will be utilizing the Integrated Model of DLM beginning this fall, there will be 2 testing windows.  The first window start date has been postponed from opening on October 7, 2015 to November 16, 2015.  The first window will be open from November 16, 2015 - February 29, 2016.

The training opportunities will consist of instructional time blocks as well as drop in Help blocks. Each 2-hour session will be made up of 4–30 minute blocks. The 30-minute blocks will start on the hour and half hour. The first 3 blocks will be step-by-step instructions and the fourth block will be for drop-in help.  For example, the 2:00 p. m. - 2:30 p. m., 2:30 p. m. – 3:00 p. m. and 3:00 p. m. – 3:30 p. m. will be instructional blocks and 3:30 p. m. – 4:00 p. m. will be for drop-in help.  Below are the dates, times, and locations of the sessions:

November 16, 2015    2:00 p. m. - 4:00 p. m.  District Office, room 129

November 18, 2015    2:00 p. m. - 4:00 p. m.  ASB PDC 101

November 20, 2015    7:00 a. m. - 9:00 a. m.  ASB PDC 113

November 23, 2015    2:00 p. m. - 4:00 p. m.  District Office, room 129