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All schools are required by Federal regulation to take continuing steps to notify students, parents, employees, and other school community members that the District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or disability. Non-discrimination notices must reach them in more than one way, and the notice must also be prominently and permanently displayed on District webpages.

Both a long and short version of the non-discrimination notice have been provided here for school use.

Suggested locations for publishing the non-discrimination notice include:

  • School website - If the District houses your website on its servers, this has been done for you. You can access the notice from the ADAAA/Non-Discrimination link located in the footer at the bottom of each page of your website. If not, you will need to add a link to the District’s ADAAA/Non-Discrimination page.
  • Student and faculty handbooks – Each school will need to add the notice to these documents.
  • Course catalogs - The District Course Catalog is web-based, and has the ADAAA/Non-Discrimination link in the footer. If the school maintains a separate version for student use, the notice should be added.
  • Brochures on programs and activities
  • School newspapers, newsletters, and magazines

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The the training video "AA419 - Student Conduct, Dress, and Appearance"  needs to be shown at your next SCC meeting. A member of Cabinet or Student Services will be available at the meeting to receive feedback regarding this policy.

Please contact your Administrator of Schools if you have any questions.

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DATE: 
September 9, 2021

TO:  
All Administrators

FROM:   
Administrators of Schools
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Sharon Jensen, Student Support Consultant

SUBJECT: 
District Safe School Committee Assignments

This year the format of the JSD Safe School Hearings has changed. Each week the committee will be made up of assistant principals from a secondary school, an elementary school, and a representative from various District level departments. The hearings will provide training/insight about Safe School Hearings and a chance for administrators to participate on the other side of the process.

With the approval of the Cabinet, the assignments have been carefully made for maximum balance. If you have been assigned, please add this date to your calendar and plan to be part of this committee on the assigned day. Hearings usually last until 1pm. Please do not take it upon yourself to substitute assigned days. In the rare event you cannot participate on your assigned day, please call Student Support Services or email janie.hyde@jordandistrict.org.

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Join us at our Family Fall Fair! There will be food, games, swag and some fun prizes. Come learn about the departments and resources in our District as well as the business partners around us. If you have a student in JSD, this event is for you!

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Classroom assistants are being allocated to help with any needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This may include covering classes when substitutes are not available. These positions are being funded through Federal COVID money for the 2021-22 school year. Principals may post, interview, and hire immediately. Each school is allowed one 25-hour COVID assistant.

The position will be a lane 1, 2, or 3 depending on their highly qualified status. The normal process will decide the lane placement.

Budget Code:   10 E xxx 7211 1084 165

Please note that this is in addition to the ESSER tracker/intervention assistant that was allocated per the memo on June 17, 2021. See memo HERE.

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DATE: 
September 1, 2021

TO:  
All Administrators

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
McKinley Withers, Health and Wellness Consultant

SUBJECT: 
Please Update Your School’s SafeUT Dashboard Contacts

Administrators,

As staff members change at each of your schools it’s important to keep our SafeUT Dashboard up to date. Please email any updates or changes to who you’d like to have receive SafeUT tips to McKinley Withers, mckinley.withers@jordandistrict.org. If you need a new account added to the Dashboard for a new hire please include their name and title in your email. For any individual that would like text message notifications, include a cell phone number. Thank you!

If your schools has not yet been added to the SafeUT Dashboard, please fill out the attached spreadsheet to have your school added.

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DATE:  
August 17, 2021

TO:
Secondary Administrators

FROM:    
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services

SUBJECT:  
Campus Monitor Training

This is a reminder that next week is a required Campus Monitor Training!

The same training will be offered both Monday 8/23 and Tuesday 8/24.

The training is from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM at the ASB in the PD classroom. Please park in the front and use entrance B.

The hope is that one Campus Monitor can come each day. An assistant principal is welcome to come to the training with the campus monitor but it is not required.

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DATE: 
August 19, 2021

TO: 
School Principals and Department Directors

FROM: 
John Larsen, Business Administrator

SUBJECT: 
District Distribution of Hand Sanitizer

Please review the attached list of the estimated number of employees at your location. The warehouse will deliver that number of 16 oz. bottles of hand sanitizer to your location during the first few weeks of school.

If you would like less, let us know by August 24 and we will reduce the size of your delivery. Feel free to contact Lisa LeStarge at ext. 88120 if you have any questions regarding your hand sanitizer quantity or delivery.

JL/ll

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DATE:  
August 17, 2021

TO: 
High school principals, Middle school principals, Elementary principals

FROM:    
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services

SUBJECT:    
State Mandated SRO / Admin Training Make-up

Each school resource officer and one administrator per school is required by law to have an annual training on the Roles & Responsibilities of SRO’s.  That training was held on August 5th, 2021. This YouTube video link is provided for those who were unable to come on that day. Please share this information with your School Resource Officer to ensure that they complete this requirement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymAotcRL2Qk

After viewing the 2 hour training, the School Resource Officer needs to send an email to both of the following to ensure that their training is logged on the official role for that day.

sharon.jensen@jordandistrict.org

lance.everill@jordandistrict.org

 

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DATE:    
August 19, 2021

TO: 
All Principals
Administrative Assistants

FROM:  
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Jordan District Nurses

SUBJECT: 
Medication Administration Training

Utah State Law and District Policy requires that all school personnel delegated to administer medication to students in schools must complete Medication Administration Training.

New employees who will be giving medication are required to attend the live training on Friday, September 10, 2021. Prior to this meeting, they need to view the online training, click on this link https://nursingservices.jordandistrict.org/ and then click on Medication Inservice (use a browser other than Firefox).

Employees who have attended this training and have a certificate of completion will not be required to attend this meeting. However, they will be required to recertify by viewing the online training video and completing the corresponding test available on the district website. (see above)

Please identify staff members that should receive medication administration training. This may include head administrative assistants, office assistants, cluster teachers or aides, counseling center personnel, and the principal if appropriate. Please inform all personnel that have the potential to administer medication to students at school of their responsibilities in this matter.

Medication Administration Training
Friday, September 10, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
ASB PDC 101 & 102

Class size is limited. Please contact your school nurse if you are planning to attend. See attached nurse assignment list. Thank you for your responsiveness and support.

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DATE: 
August 19, 2021

TO:  
Principals
Administrative Assistants

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Jordan School District Nurses

SUBJECT:   
Immunization Policy and Guidelines, Skyward and USIIS Inservice

Jordan School District Nurses will be conducting this inservice on:

Friday, September 24, 2021
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
ASB COMPUTER LAB D-112

This inservice is open to all office staff and administrators. It is not required that you attend; however, if you are involved with student registration, this inservice will be of benefit to you since immunization status is an important part of the registration process.

Class size is limited. Please contact your school nurse if you are planning to attend. See nurse assignment list below.

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DATE:
Monday, August 16, 2021

TO:
All School Administrators

FROM:
Shelley Nordick, Ph.D., Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT: 
State Test Administration Data Systems Not Functioning

School administrators are asked to convey the following information to your teachers:

There are currently some issues with rostering between Skyward and the state data system (UTREx). This means that rosters in test administration systems will not be current for the first week of school rendering those systems unavailable for use with students. The affected systems include:

  • Acadience Reading (paper/pencil testing will be used until the situation is resolved)
  • Acadience Math (for data entry only; this is already a paper/pencil assessment)
  • RISE (including benchmarks)
  • Utah Aspire Plus and high school benchmarks
  • Utah Compose
  • KEEP Entry (paper/pencil scoring should be used until the situation is resolved)
  • UTIPS (civics test)

School Administrators will be notified when the situation has been resolved by the state. Please contact Evaluation, Research & Accountability with questions or concerns.

 

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DATE:   
August 12, 2021

TO:    
Principals
Administrative Assistants
Attendance Secretaries
Registrars

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

SUBJECT: 
Reporting Completion of 10-Day Accounting

Accurate enrollment counts are used to generate future projections. Please see attached memo.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

  1. Please fill out this form to indicate who your ELD lead, compliance lead, and any Diversity clubs you will have.
  2. For an update on the amount of EARS funding you used, please indicate the information on this form.  You can also view the application and the goals that were sent in to the state here.

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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