Jordan School District
The Special Education Department is offering professional development to support co-teaching instruction.
Interested schools will need to submit the attached application no later than September 3, 2021 to Amanda Bollinger. The co-teaching cohort will be capped at 13 teams/26 individuals. A signature on the completed application indicates that the principal is committed to supporting the teachers’ commitments in the co-teaching PD described in the attached document.
Earlier this summer the Field Trip Office launched BusHive, the new field/activity trip software for all field/activity trip requests. During the first week in July, Kitt sent BusHive online training resources and videos to designated point(s) of contact at all schools. If your school did not receive the training videos and you would like Kitt to resend them to you, feel free to contact him at kittisack.soumpholphakdy@jordandistrict.org or give him a call at 8-8809.
An in-person BusHive training option will be conducted on Wednesday, August 18 from 10:30-11:00 a.m. If your school's point of contact is interested in attending, please contact Kitt via email or by phone as mentioned above or Michele at michele.yuill@jordandistrict.org or at 8-8804.
This year Community Nursing Services (CNS) will be our preferred provider for Flu Shot Clinics in your school. Two flu shot clinics have been scheduled already:
District Office
October 4, 2021
11:00 am - 2:30 pm
ASB
October 6, 2021
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
If you would like to schedule a Flu Shot Clinic for your school and receive preferred pricing, please complete the attached 2021 Flu Shot Scheduling Form and return to CNS attention Yvette. Her information is included on the attached form.
3rd Wednesday every other month during the school year
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM.
September 15, 2021
November 17, 2021
January 19, 2022
March 16, 2022
May 18, 2022
New Location: Transportation Building
8480 S 4361 W West Jordan
The purpose of these workshops is to communicate any new information pertinent to the custodial operations of each building. All Head Custodians should attend these meetings.
In an effort to insure that these workshops are productive trainings, the Custodial/Energy Services Department would like to address any ongoing, widespread problems or concerns that you might have.
Thanks!
Steve Peart
Director of Custodial/Energy Services
801-567-8770
steve.peart@jordandistrict.org
DATE:
Thursday, August 12, 2021
TO:
All School Administrators
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: Perspectives on Maternity Leave Policies for Educators in three Utah School Districts
Applicant: Jordan Chaves
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 interviews and focus groups with teachers across various district schools.
Thank you for your assistance.
All schools are required to conduct a fire drill within the first 10 days of the school year.
This provides a great opportunity to review plans, emergency response/Incident Command assignments, evacuation maps, rally locations outside, communications, and related supplies.
Please take special care to orient new students and staff, individuals with special needs and younger students that may not have been exposed to alarms and emergency response protocols.
REMEMBER/CONSIDERATIONS
Utah Administrative Rules (R277-400-6 & 7) drill requirements for elementary and secondary schools are listed at the top of the 2021-22 Report of Emergencies – Drills, Actual Events or Meetings Form for your reference.
Please contact Emergency Operations Manager Lance Everill for assistance: lance.everill@jordandistrict.org, office 801-567-8623.
Special Education Resource and Cluster Team Leaders will receive a SCRAM report via Move-It of all students who should be receiving services through your school’s special education program(s) at the start of the 2021-22 school year. All team members and service providers need to verify each student on this list as either correct, changed, exited/moved, and/or incomplete. Since only one copy is being sent per “team” (i.e., Resource and Cluster), it is important that resource teams, cluster teams, SLPs, Guidance Specialists and other itinerant providers work together to check and complete the requested information.
Please have your Scram Reports and corrected SCRAM returned to the District Office by
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
We are in the process of hiring a new SCRAM secretary. Until we have a replacement, please continue to send your SCRAM documents and reports to Amanda Hamblin at the District Office. When we have someone in place, you will be notified of who the new contact person is for SCRAM.
Attached are the special education budget allocations for Resource, Cluster Teachers and Speech-Language Pathologists for the 2021-22 school year. (Cluster Leaders do not receive a Special Education budget.) Remember that special education monies must be spent in ways that provide the most benefit to special education students with the goal to improve student achievement and performance. It will be up to you, your team, and your school principal/financial secretary to keep track of how much of your budget you have spent individually.
Please note equipment purchases, electronic games and/or any materials that are not instructional in nature must be pre-approved from the Special Education Department. Equipment purchases that are not pre-approved will not be reimbursed. Requests must include the approval from your teacher specialist.
When submitting requisitions, follow Skyward procedures and guidelines. Requisitions for the 2021-22 school year can be submitted anytime between July 1, 2021 and March 1, 2022. The final deadline for all purchasing requests, reimbursement requests, E-checks and P-Card purchases is March 1, 2022. This is a different deadline than we have previously had and will not be extended.
If you have questions regarding your Special Education budget, please call Amanda Hamblin at (801) 567-8177 or the Teacher Specialist assigned to your school.
Students will have the option to have text read to them on the RISE Summative and Utah Aspire Plus Summative testing systems once again this year. For students in grades 3-6, the Acadience Reading Daze test will also have audio functions. Principals or their designee are encouraged to place an order for student earbuds. Please place your order by Friday, August 27, 2021.
To place an order, please click here.
Earbuds may be used for other district- or state-mandated tests, but schools will need to create a system by which the same student uses the same earbuds throughout the year as there is no additional funding to purchase more than one pair of earbuds per student in grades 3-10.
If schools wish to purchase additional earbuds for other uses, school administrators are welcome to contact Gaylene Miller in Evaluation, Research & Accountability at 801-567-8185 who can share the purchasing information and quotes used to acquire these earbuds.
Hello Administrators:
We have a few forms we would like you to fill out to give our department a better way to assist you this year.
Please see the attached flyer regarding the 2021-22 Friday schedules for all levels.
DATE:
August 2, 2021
TO:
Principals and Administrative Assistants
FROM:
John Larsen, Business Administrator
SUBJECT:
Legislative Classroom Supplies Appropriation for 2021-22
In preparation for the new school year, we are providing you with Record of Receipt envelopes for distribution to teachers. Teachers should use these envelopes to record and keep receipts for supply purchases made throughout the year. This year each eligible teacher will receive $175.00 for supply purchases. As in the past, teachers working less than full-time will receive a portion of the $175 based on the FTE rate listed on the school’s Skyward FTE report. The language in paragraph two of the Guidelines (printed on the back of the envelope) was revised to reflect the change in the amount. If you have envelopes left from the previous school year, please discard them and issue only the new envelopes dated 5/20/21.
It is anticipated that the legislative supply funds will be deposited to teacher’ bank accounts on about the 24th of September. The supply money is not included in a paycheck, but rather as a separate deposit to the bank account the teacher provided to the Payroll Department. If you have teachers that received permission to carry over funds from the prior year, please write the amount in the box entitled “carry-over funds” on the teacher’s envelope so it can be added to the “new funds-current year” amount. If a teacher with a carry-over amount transferred to a different school within the District and your principal gave the teacher permission to use his/her carry-over amount at the new school, please communicate this information to the administrative assistant at the new school so they can record the information on the teacher’s envelope. If a teacher with a carry-over amount resigns, the teacher will need to return the funds to the school either via a payroll deduction, check, or cash payment.
Immediately following the September 24 distribution of supply money, you will receive 1) an FTE report which lists the teachers assigned to your school and 2) a disbursements report which lists the amount of money each received. These documents should be kept for reference throughout the year.
One last reminder: If a teacher resigns during the year, please insure that they turn in their legislative supply envelope prior to leaving. If the resigning teacher has a balance remaining of unspent funds, a request for a payroll deduction should be sent to Sarah Palmer, director of Payroll Services. The teacher can also return the funds by check or cash made payable to the school.
As always, if you have questions or need additional envelopes, please feel free to contact my administrative assistant, Lisa LeStarge, at 801-567-8120 or lisa.lestarge@jordandistrict.org.
Thank you for your assistance with the legislative supply money.
jl/jc
Enclosures
cc:
Anthony Godfrey
Mike Anderson
Cody Curtis
April Gaydosh
Jill Durrant
Rebecca Gerber
June LeMaster
Lisa Robinson
Brad Sorensen
Dan Ellis
Jason Mott
Mike Heaps
Jeri Gamble
Sarah Palmer
Kelly Giffin, JEA
DATE:
July 22, 2021
TO:
All Administrators
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
McKinley Withers, Health and Wellness Consultant
SUBJECT:
Educator Wellness Representative Opportunity!
During the 2020-21 school year, Health and Wellness began a new initiative that allowed schools to select an “Educator Wellness Representative.” Almost all of our District’s schools selected a representative. This group of wellness reps met monthly throughout the school year and collaborated with PEHP, Blomquist Hale, and others to offer opportunities to enhance individual wellness for employees. Wellness reps led efforts across the District that were tailored to their school and several schools secured additional grant funds through this initiative to support their fellow educators.
For the 2021-22 school year we will be able to offer this again!
The purpose of the Educator Wellness Representative initiative is to increase educator wellness by enhancing wellness education and mental health awareness among the school’s adult staff. As part of the initiative, each school may nominate one or two adult staff members (non-administrative) per school as “Educator Wellness Representatives.” Review the information below if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity:
We are excited to use this group to disseminate great information and provide tools and strategies to help your school staff maintain wellness throughout the school year.
To select your wellness representative(s), please fill out this short Google Form by September 3rd. If you have questions, please contact McKinley Withers, 801-567-8245.
Principals, please take note that all schools will serve free meals in the school cafeteria for the 2021-22 school year.
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Secondary virtual students who attend some classes at Hidden Valley Middle or Majestic Elementary:
Secondary totally virtual students:
Elementary virtual students:
The Leadership in Personalized and Digital Learning (LPDL) Academy is designed specifically for administrators to lead schools toward personalized and digital learning through research-based content and job-embedded experiences. Sign up today for the 2021-22 cohort. Open to principals and assistant principals. There will be both an elementary and secondary cohort. For questions contact Jared Covili, 801-567-8191.
Jordan School District Employees are responsible for knowing and adhering to all District policies and procedures. The crucial policy review is now available to District employees in Skyward through “Online Forms.” As a condition of continued employment, all employees (i.e. Licensed, ESP, Substitutes, Coaches, Miscellaneous adults, etc.), with the exception of minor students, will be required to complete this training. We ask your assistance in notifying your employees of this required training and ask that this training be completed by November 1, 2021.
A message will appear upon login of Skyward Employee Access for the employee to complete an “Online Form.” Employees can complete the steps at that time or can return to the review at another time by selecting “Online Forms” under “Employee Information.”
Reports of completion will be available through Skyward so you can verify that your staff members have completed this process. A tutorial is attached for your reference. If you or any staff members need technical help, please call the help desk at 801-567-USER (8737).
DATE:
July 29, 2021
TO:
Principals
Assistant Principals
Elementary Administrative Assistants
Secondary Registrars
School Counselors
FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Stacee Worthen, Consultant, School Counseling
Caleb Olson, Consultant, Planning & Enrollment
SUBJECT:
Enrolling Students at Part-Time
Each student must have an enrollment percentage in Skyward that matches the number of courses they are enrolled in during the day. If a student is part-time, they must not be given a full-time, 100% enrolled schedule using filler classes such as “Ed Release” or similar.
When a student switches from full-time to part-time enrollment, the appropriate school staff member (a principal or administrative assistant at elementary; a school counselor at secondary) must complete the Student Release Form and have it signed by a parent (the form should print double-sided or as two pages). This form ensures that the parent is aware of and approves of the change and understands their obligations for having the student leave or return to campus. Parents must also understand that a reduced schedule at the secondary level will leave the student credit deficient and at risk of not graduating.
When signed, the form can be processed by the appropriate school staff member (typically an elementary administrative assistant or secondary registrar) and the enrollment percentage changed to the percentage given on the form (rounded to the nearest whole number). Information Systems has prepared documentation on changing a student’s enrollment percentage in Skyward. That documentation can be found at this link. The original form is placed in the student’s cumulative folder; copies are given to the parent and sent to Planning & Enrollment at the District Office.
At the secondary level, the student should only be enrolled in the number of classes recorded on the form. If the student will not be instructed by a Jordan District teacher for one or more periods, they should not have a class on their schedule for those periods. “Ed Release” or similar courses may only be used as temporary placeholders while SEATS courses are processed and added to the student’s schedule; they may not be used long-term or to keep a student enrolled at 100%. For secondary students, one period per day (or per A/B cycle) of religious release time may be counted towards school enrollment.
The form remains in effect until superseded. “Superseded” will mean at the end date listed on the Student Release Form, the next school year (when the student would likely return to full-time status), or when a new form further adjusting enrollment is completed. The copy of the Student Release Form in the cumulative folder may be destroyed when it has been superseded.
Please contact Planning & Enrollment with questions or concerns (x88183).
Payroll is offering training to all administrative assistants throughout the year.
If interested, please call Pauli Young @ 801/567-8156 or email pauli.young@jordandistrict.org to schedule an appointment.
Please see flyer below.
