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The Utah State Board of Education has announced the 2022-23 Teacher Salary Supplement Program (TSSP) qualifications and application deadlines. The application deadlines are printed below. Information regarding the TSSP program and qualifications is found at the following Utah State Board of Education (USBE) link:

Educator Incentive Programs (TSSP)

Application Term Dates

An application term indicates a preference of when and how often the educator would like to receive any bonus. Applicants may select one of the following terms before the respective deadline:

Term # of Payments Application Available & Accepted Application Deadline
Annual 1 Saturday, October 1, 2022 6:00 AM Sunday, April 30, 2023 11:59 PM
Semester 2 Saturday, October 1, 2022 6:00 AM Tuesday, January 31, 2023 11:59 AM
Trimester 3 Saturday, October 1, 2022 6:00 AM Tuesday, November 15, 2022 11:59 PM

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Distracted driving is any non-driving activity a person engages in that has the potential to distract him or her from the primary task of driving and increases the risk of crashing. While all distractions can endanger drivers’ safety, texting is the most alarming because it involves all three types of distraction.

See the flyer below for more information.

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GRAMA HandoutAnyone with a GRAMA request must submit the request by visiting the State of Utah Open Records Portal for Jordan School District or by visiting openrecords.utah.gov and selecting the K-12 link.

For anyone who needs help navigating openrecords.utah.gov and filling out the GRAMA request form, we are providing an information card. Principals and staff can print the card and share it with those making a GRAMA request.

Here is the information card to print and cut in half.

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TRAINING FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS: If you haven’t already had a training for your council members, our (State LAND Trust office) annual live online council member training will be held on the following dates. Email invites will be sent out to all council members on October 21st (following the Oct. 20th deadlines).

    1. Nov. 9 (12-1 pm)
    2. Nov. 9 (7-8 pm)
    3. Nov. 14th (12-1 pm)
    4. Nov. 14th (7-8 pm)

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DATE:    
Thursday, October 20, 2022

TO: 
All School Administrators

FROM:  
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT:  
2022 RISE and Utah Aspire Plus Tableau Dashboards Updated with Student Growth Data

The RISE and Utah Aspire Plus dashboards in Tableau have been updated with 2022 student growth data. School administrators will be able to see the median growth percentile (MGP) for the district, schools, grade levels and individual teachers. In addition, school administrators will be able to see individual student growth percentiles (SGP) for each student for whom growth could be calculated.

The updated dashboards may be found at the links below:

Here are a few reminders about growth calculations:

  • SGPs are calculated on a scale of 1-99
  • SGPs are a comparison of a student’s progress in a content area (ELA, math or science) relative to the progress of other like-scoring peers across the state
    • The comparison data used to calculate SGPs come from the student’s scale scores for a specific content area on the 2021 and 2022 RISE and/or Utah Aspire Plus assessments
    • For example, if a student earned an SGP of 43, that means that this student scored better than 43% of his like-scoring peers between the 2021 and 2022 assessments
  • The state considers an SGP of 40 to be typical growth
  • Students with low proficiency will need higher growth scores to close achievement gaps
  • An MGP is the median, or middle, score of a group of SGPs (class, grade level, school, or district)
    • MGPs answer this question: How fast is my group of students growing in their learning compared to other groups of students in my grade level, school, district or the state?

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DATE:
October 13, 2022

TO:
School Principals
Directors

FROM:  
John Larsen, Business Administrator
June LeMaster, Administrator, Human Resources
Brent Burge, HR Administrator

SUBJECT:  
Shift Differential – Education Support Professional (ESP)

As part of JESPA negotiations for the 2018-19 contract year, the shift differential was increased effective July 1, 2018 as follows:

Swing Shift – The employee’s shift must begin between 12:00 p.m. (noon) and 10:00 p.m. The employee must work a full eight hours. The additional rate of pay is $0.50 per hour.

Graveyard Shift – The employee’s shift must begin between 10:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. The employee must work a full eight hours. The additional rate of pay is $1.00 per hour.

If an employee normally assigned and normally working the swing or graveyard shift is asked to temporarily work earlier in the day in order to help cover for another employee who is absent, the swing or graveyard employee will receive the shift differential for that day.

Only ESP, benefit-eligible employees are eligible for shift differential. Please follow the current process to submit for shift differential pay.

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DATE: 
October 13, 2022

TO:  
In-Person Elementary, Middle, High School Principals

FROM:   
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Caleb Olson, Consultant, Planning & Enrollment

SUBJECT:   
Preparation for Permits 2023-24

Utah Code 53G-6-402 (which governs the out-of-boundary permit process) was amended in the 2022 Legislative Session. The major change is a shift in dates for the permit windows, as outlined below:

Window Description Old Dates New Dates
Open Enrollment Permits awarded by Board lottery priority; seats available based on school capacity. December 1 to third Friday in February November 15 to first Friday in February
Late Enrollment Permits awarded first-come, first served; seats available based on 2.0 FTE allocation space. Third Friday in February through June of the next year. First Friday in February through June of the next year.

In preparation for the opening of the permit window, the following items must be completed by the building principal no later than November 1, 2022:

  1. Access your school’s enrollment dashboard. There is a new tab for the 2023-24 school year. In the permit section, enter the names and authorizations of all individuals who should be allowed to process permits at your school for the 2023-24 school year. Names have not been copied from previous years due to high turnover at many schools.
    • Elementary permit information begins on row 124
    • Middle permit information begins on row 170
    • High permit information begins on row 198
  2. When permit names and authorizations have been updated, click the checkbox to the right side of the permit section to signal your school’s completion.
  3. Review your school’s anticipated open enrollment permit seat total, shown just below the permit staff names and authorization section. These are anticipated numbers and are subject to change until they receive final authorization by the Jordan Board of Education.

If your school has new staff responsible for permit processing or there are administrators new to the process who need training or review, please communicate the following training information to them:

Permit Trainings
When: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Where: District Office, room 129
Times: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM or 12:30 PM-2:30 PM
Who: Staff new to the permit process and any staff/administrators who need refresher training.

Attendance is NOT mandatory this year; only those who need training must attend.

Seating is limited to 30 per session. Please sign up using the link below. If both session fill, additional sessions will be added.

Link to Sign Up

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We are excited to offer our annual Utah Skyward User Conference in person this year! The conference is scheduled for Wednesday, November 16th at Alpine School District. Please see the attached agenda for additional details.

This conference is an opportunity to learn about Skyward directly from the source as most sessions are being presented by Skyward staff. There are some fantastic sessions being offered this year, including Admin Bootcamp, Communication Tools, Discipline, Data Mining for Beginners, Data Mining for Advanced Users, and Skyward Tips & Tricks.

During these sessions you will have the opportunity to ask questions, however, if you have a problem that will take a bit longer to resolve, we suggest you call our help desk to get further assistance.

As always, we hope you get the best out of this year's conference and are able to see new things, learn new tips and tricks, get some of your questions answered, and see some of the new possibilities in Skyward. If you have any questions about attending the conference, please feel free to call Support Services at ext 88737.

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DATE: 
October 10, 2022

TO: 
Principals and Assistant Principals

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Sharon Jensen, Consultant Student Support Services
Michelle Reyes, Prevention Specialist

SUBJECT: 
October Attendance Flyer 2022

Principals and Assistant Principals,

The end of the first quarter is near. We hope things are going well in your schools. This month our attendance awareness message focuses on the social and emotional benefits of attending school regularly. Research shows that routines, such as a structured school day, support healthy social emotional development leading to optimal mental health over time. Researches in Texas have also found that when people feel more connected to others they have lower levels of anxiety and depression.

Included is the October flyer sent out to parents on PeachJar. It would be wonderful to make this available in your schools as well. We will continue to send out a new attendance flyer each month as we strive for better attendance.

We hope your attendance in showing some improvements from the last couple of years.

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DATE:   
October 7, 2022

TO: 
Principals
All Special Educators and Related Service Providers

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

SUBJECT:  
Important Deadline--Please Read Immediately
SCRAM Data Due by the end of day Monday, November 7, 202
Updating SCRAM for December 1 Funding Count

We are fast approaching our December 1 SCRAM count deadline. Resource and Cluster Team Leaders will soon receive a SCRAM report via district mail that includes all students who are currently receiving services through your school’s special education program(s). All team members and service providers need to verify each student on this list as either correct, changed, exited/moved, and/or incomplete. Please check that the names, entry dates, scram school, service patterns, weekly minutes and providers are correct for each student on the printout. If a correction needs to be made, a new scram document should be submitted. 

All Corrections and SCRAM reports are Due:
By 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 7, 2022
to Jen Warkentine at the Special Ed Office

Special Education funding and, therefore, school staffing/assistant allocations, etc. are contingent upon the accuracy of this data. Your timely and accurate response is critical! Thank you for all your efforts to get us the correct information in a very short time period.

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State LAND Trust
October 20, 2022 Deadline:

  • Hold your first SCC Meeting
  • Update the State website with your council members
  • Electronically sign the Principal Assurance portion (on the page where you update the council members)
  • Update your school website with the required information (see information below)

The State Office will begin looking on October 20th to see if Jordan School District has completed these items. Please make sure everything is updated and completed, both on your school website and the State LAND Trust website.

Thank you!

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The November Assistant Principal meetings will be held on November 1 (8:00-11:00am) and November 3 (8:00-11:00am). All meetings will be held in-person at the JATC-S. All assistant principals and intern assistant principals are invited. A beverage service will be provided, beginning at 7:30 am at each of the meetings. As a reminder you only need to attend one of the sessions offered per month. Both sessions will provide the same information. Please CLICK HERE and it will take you to the Google Doc to sign up for which day you would like to attend. If you have any questions please call Nadine Page at 801-567-8182 (x88182). Thank you!

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The Jordan Ethnic Advisory Committee (JEAC) is hosting an employee open house on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at JATC South from 3:30 - 5 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Come share your ideas, solutions and celebrations. Your voice is important.

Can't make the meeting? Your suggestions are always welcome. Please contact jeac@jordandistrict.org.