Category: Middle School Info

DATE:  
February 24, 2022

TO:
Principals
Administrative Assistants
Secondary Attendance Assistants

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

SUBJECT: 
Early & Late Enrollment Permits

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The window for early enrollment permits closed on Friday, February 18, 2022. The law requires that parent(s)/guardian(s) receive written notice from the school by April 1, 2022. The results e-mails sent to parents(s)/guardian(s) after records have been placed on the waitlist or seated list serves as that written notice. Schools will need to ensure that communication with parent(s)/guardian(s) has occurred for each permit request.

All unfilled permit seats were zeroed out at the conclusion of the Early Enrollment window. If a school had open seats and waiting permit applications on February 18, those permit applicants MUST be offered the seats. Contact Planning & Enrollment for assistance in adding these seats back to PowerSchool.

The Late Enrollment permit window began on February 19, 2022. The late enrollment period is for applications submitted after the third (3rd) Friday in February for the following year, or a permit request for the current school year. (See “Open Enrollment / School Choice Permits” in the online Planning and Enrollment Manual.)

Any permit submitted during the late enrollment period must be processed and prepared for import by the school; however, Board priorities do not need to be verified. These permits will be placed at the bottom of the waitlist currently in PowerSchool when processed. The permit waitlist in PowerSchool must be used throughout the school year to grant permit requests and seat students at the school. Permits may be re-ordered on the waitlist according to the late enrollment requirements (see “Open Enrollment / School Choice Permits”).

Remember that the late enrollment window is based on staffing, not building capacity. Schools may only accept permits after receiving approval from their Administrator of Schools and only in grades that are at risk of not reaching the 2.0 projection.

Permits for the current (2021-22) school year can still be submitted in Skyward by parent(s)/ guardian(s), and schools must make decisions and provide notification within two weeks of the permit submission. These permits should still be processed and waitlisted or seated as appropriate. However, after the December pre-transfer, approved permits are no longer automatically sent to Skyward. Schools will need to manually enter these 2021-22 permits into Skyward. Because the pre-enroll has already occurred, these permits should be entered using the “History” screen of the “Previous Reason Code” section of the “School Path”.

Please contact Planning & Enrollment at 801-567-8183 with questions.

DATE: 
Thursday, February 24, 2022

TO: 
All School Administrators

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

SUBJECT:  
Research Project

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The Research Review Committee has reviewed a research project in which your school has been asked to participate.

Project Title: Teachers’ Values for the Reduction of Teacher Attrition in Utah Public Schools

Applicant: Ryan Nixon, BYU-Provo

The project has been approved by the District Research Review Committee. 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 an optional anonymous survey sent to teachers. The survey link will be distributed directly to teachers by the researcher.

Thank you for your assistance.

Jordan School District Teaching and Learning Department is excited to SHARE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND an AWESOME Mathematics Conference by offering FREE scholarships to attend. 

This conference is sponsored by the Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics

If you have never been, it is great. Teachers are sharing ideas and there are more than ten choices every session and there are 5 awesome sessions. 

We are very excited to spend the evening of February 25th and the morning of February 26th with you at Davis High School. This year’s conference highlights include:

• Keynote address by Francis Su.
• Nearly 50 different breakout sessions
• Catered dinner and brunch sponsored by Derivita and TeachFX
• Morning yoga session on Saturday with other mathematicians

Please apply for one of this year’s scholarships HERE

DATE: 
February 17, 2022

TO: 
All Principals
Secondary Registrars
Secondary Attendance Secretaries

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Michelle Love-Day, Consultant, Language & Culture Services
Caleb Olson, Consultant, Planning & Enrollment

SUBJECT: 
Clarification on Enrollment of Asylees and Refugees

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Please see memo below.

Over the past two years, the district’s loaner Chromebook program has successfully enabled thousands of students to have Internet access while schools have awaited the arrival of more permanent inventory. With numbers of school owned devices now at far more suitable levels, it has been determined that the district loaner Chromebook program is no longer needed.

As a result, the district will be permanently distributing all loaner Chromebook inventory to all schools equitably based on student population. Over the next few months, individual school administrations will be contacted by Mark Sowa to make delivery arrangements. If you have questions about this, please contact Mark directly at 801-567-8392, or at mark.sowa@jordandistrict.org.

DATE: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022

TO: 
All School Administrators

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

SUBJECT: 
Demographics Dashboard Updated with Oct. 1, 2021 Enrollment

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The Demographics Dashboard in Tableau has been updated with Oct. 1, 2021 enrollment data. The dashboard will show district and school demographic trends from 2016-2021 Oct. 1^st enrollment by race/ethnicity, gender, economically disadvantaged status, EL status, and student with a disability status. School administrators may access this dashboard here.

For the district’s population, school administrators will note some significant shifts in demographics that will also apply to some school populations:

• 1% increase in minority students with the largest increases with the following two student groups:
  • 6% increase in Hispanic students
  • 8% increase in Pacific Islander students
• 6% decrease in economically disadvantaged students (with free lunch being served to all students, there is no need for families to apply for free/reduced lunch; hence, the decrease in students being identified as economically disadvantaged)
• 5% increase in EL students (454 more EL students for 2021-22 than the prior year with many more having been identified for services since Oct. 1, 2021)
• 6% increase in students with a disability

Please contact Ben Jameson in Evaluation, Research & Accountability with any questions about the Demographic Dashboard.