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We are thrilled with the number of Jordan teachers who have been accepted for the Donors Choose/USBE Classroom Grant. As teachers look to purchase technology as part of the classroom grant, please remember that not all devices work on the Jordan network. Before purchasing a device or software, please have your teachers check with their digital learning specialist to ensure that purchased equipment will be allowed on the network. For questions, please reach out to Jared Covili, Consultant for Digital Teaching and Learning, at jared.covili@jordandistrict.org.

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Reading Recommendation Data was shared with Principals on Tuesday, 2/8/22. As an assistance and reminder to you and your teams, we wish to provide some context for this data that should help you and your teams guide decision making, as well as resolve any questions that might come up from counseling staff, parents, or students.

  1. Sharing Permissions:
    This data has been shared as a "VIEW ONLY" file. Once this data has been shared with you, we recommend making a copy for your own use so you can review and/or manipulate the layout as you see fit.

T&L occasionally gets requests from Counseling Teams to share the files directly with them, which we cannot do for student data privacy reasons. We will direct those teams to contact you for access. Once the file is under your supervision, you may share it with team members and educators as you see fit.

  1. What Has Been Shared:
    You will receive access to several separate documents:
    -Reading Recommendations for NEXT YEAR'S incoming 7th, 8th, and 9th Graders.|
    -Current Reading Data for students attending your school.
    -The Rubric used to assess student literacy and recommendations.
  2. Purpose:
    The purpose of providing this data is to help schools anticipate needs for students who may have gaps in their literacy skills, and who might benefit from supplemental learning in a reading course. The goal of a reading course is to provide the necessary literacy skills to engage with and thrive across the curriculum.

The data we have provided is NOT a reading placement--it is a recommendation. This data should be used to help inform discussions between Administrators, Educators, Parents, and Students to make the best decision for students. When questions arise about a student's literacy readiness, we leave it to schools to collaborate with parents and students to make an informed decision in the best interest of the student. We provide this information to support that collaborative effort.

While some students may be far above or below proficiency, and their need for support is readily apparent, other students may be in a gray area on the edge of proficiency--both above and below. Please work flexibly with families as they seek to understand the precise needs of their students.

You may use the rubric to assist you in understanding how close or far a student is to proficiency.

  1. The Rubric:
    Collaborating with the Elementary ELA Consultants, this rubric has been developed and refined to identify where students sit in their literacy readiness to assist in the transition from Elementary to Middle Schools. The following data points have been collected:

--RISE Score:
A student's most recent Utah Standardized Assessment in ELA.

--Lexile Level:
A Lexile Level is a standard data point that is used nationwide to quickly assess a student's ability to engage with and comprehend a complex text. Specific Grade Level Curricula correspond with Lexile measure bands. At a minimum, it is expected that students be able to demonstrate proficiency at the Lexile levels commonly associated with their grade level in order to succeed across the curriculum.

--Acadience MOY Composite:
As a state, the USBE has provided Acadience to all K-6 Classrooms to assist in the monitoring of reading proficiency. In our district, we participate in using this assessment, and use it to monitor student growth and to provide targeted RTI. As a 6th grade, all students have a middle of year assessment that is delivered between December-January.

--Most Recent ELA Grade:
For grades above 6th, we take into account, their current performance in ELA.

  1. Administrator Judgement and Flexibility:
    Again, this information is meant to serve as a guidepost, not as a fixed placement. There are a variety of factors that can influence any of the rubric criteria, and we ask that you and your teams use this information prudently and wisely as you consider what is best for students, and to use it as part of the discussions that may occur as questions arise from students and parents on a case by case basis. We accord you and your teams the professional trust to delegate and use this data as you deem fit to serve your communities.

Thank you again for your collaboration and continued leadership through thick and thin!

JSD Reading Rubric 21-22.pdf

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It is time to swing into a Swig location in Jordan School District and receive your free menu item on us.

Swig week starts tomorrow and runs from February 11 – 17. Every JSD employee can receive one free menu item when you show your Employee ID badge at the location of your choice.

Superintendent Godfrey recommends the 44-ounce Endless Summer Swig!!!

Participating Locations:

  • Oquirrh - 11528 S 4000 W #101, South Jordan
  • Trail Crossing - 5462 W Daybreak Pkwy., Ste H1, South Jordan
  • South Jordan - 1573 W 11400 S, South Jordan
  • West Jordan - 7859 S 3200 W, West Jordan
Hours of operation for all four locations:
Mon. - Fri. 7:30 a.m - 9:30 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m. - 10:30 p.m, Sunday - Closed

Substitutes may obtain a JSD Honorary ID badge from a receptionist at the District Office from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Swig Flyer

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Dear Substitute Teachers and Nutrition Substitutes,

Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication during what has been one of the most challenging years in education.

Between February 11 and February 17, the District has arranged with SWIG for each employee to receive one free menu item when you present a JSD Honorary ID Badge Coupon at participating SWIG locations in Jordan District boundaries. Substitutes may obtain their SWIG Coupon from a District Receptionist at the District Office (7387 S. Campus View Drive, West Jordan) between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

  • Participating Locations
    • Oquirrh - 11528 S 4000 W #101, South Jordan
    • Trail Crossing - 5462 W Daybreak Pkwy., Ste H1, South Jordan
    • South Jordan - 1573 W 11400 S, South Jordan
    • West Jordan - 7859 S 3200 W, West Jordan

As you are aware and to help manage the added stress, the District converted Friday, February 11, into a Health and Wellness Day for employees, students, and families in place of the Flex Friday previously scheduled. The Health and Wellness Day is for every employee.

On February 11, the District will be providing a Health and Wellness curriculum directly to parents and students so employees can focus on their own Health and Wellness.

Full-time school-based substitute teachers and long-term substitute teachers with a long-term assignment on February 11th will be paid for the day by choosing from the following three options while part-time at-will substitute teachers and nutrition substitutes will be limited to option two below.

  1. You can use the time to catch up. There will be no required meetings or student interactions on February 11. School meals and busing will not be provided.
  2. We will have optional resources available throughout the day to help you focus on your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Zoom classes on stress management, dealing with anxiety, classroom management, and others will be offered. We will also be sponsoring in-person activities designed to help you connect with other employees and focus on your physical health. Watch your district email for additional details.
  3. You can choose to access annual leave or vacation time (for full-time benefited substitute teachers only) to take the day off. Absences will not count against no-pay-day limits and low absence incentive thresholds.

The Health and Wellness Day is for every employee.

Thank you for your continued hard work and dedication to students and education. If you have any questions, please contact Juli Martin, Administrative Assistant.

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Principals and Department Directors should arrange for lunch or breakfast for all your employees one day from February 7th - 10th. Please do not schedule meals on February 11th so all employees feel free to participate in the Health and Wellness Day activities occurring that day.

Traditional schools (i.e. the 41 elementary schools, 13 middle schools and 6 high schools) will receive an additional $12 per employee in the schools supply budgets. Traditional schools may then charge the cost of this meal to 10 E xxx 0050 1090 639 by submitting the receipt to Accounting through the normal P-Card or NPO process.

All other schools (i.e. Kauri Sue Hamilton (including the Child Development Center), River’s Edge (including the Jordan Family Education Center), South Valley, JATC North, JATC South, Valley High School, and Southpointe Adult High) will also have $12 per employee available. However, these schools will need to charge the cost of this meal to 10 E xxx 9054 1090 639 by submitting the receipt to Accounting through the normal P-Card or NPO process.

District departments will also have $12 per employee available. Departments should charge the cost of this meal to 10 E xxx 9054 yy90 639 by submitting the receipt to Accounting through the normal P-Card or NPO process. The “yy” listed in the account above will differ for each department as follows:

Superintendent – 24
Associate Superintendent – 24
Administrators of Schools – 24
Accounting, Budgets, and Audits – 25
Auxiliary Services – 26
Business Administrator – 25
Career & Technical Education – 22
Central Warehouse – 26
Communications – 28
Custodial and Energy – 26
Equity & Compliance – 21
Evaluation, Research & Accountability – 10
Facilities – 26
Human Resources – 28
Information Systems – 28
Instructional Support Services – 22
Insurance Services – 25
Jordan Education Foundation – 22
Language and Cultural Services – 21
Nurses – 21
Nutrition Services – 26
Payroll – 25
Purchasing – 26
Transportation – 27
Special Education – 22
Student Services – 21
Teaching and Learning – 22
Transportation – 27

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Principals:

To prepare for the Teacher Transfer Fair, please complete the linked Google Form listing known openings for the 22-23 school year. Current licensed employees will be able to view this list of teacher transfer opportunities prior to the Teacher Transfer Fair. Licensed employees may submit a transfer request form in Employee Access. Principals will receive a weekly report from IT of those employees who have submitted a transfer request for their location. On March 1st, all remaining openings must be posted in Frontline. JSD licensed employees must then apply in Frontline to be considered for a transfer.

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DATE:  
Thursday, February 3, 2022

TO: 
All School Administrators

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

SUBJECT:  
2022 Educator Engagement Survey Administration

USBE board rule R277-325 requires that school districts administer the Educator Engagement Survey every other year opposite the USBE School Climate Survey (last administered in the spring of 2020-21).

The survey will be distributed by Evaluation, Research & Accountability to all licensed school-based educators (with the exception of administrators) in elementary, middle and high schools. The survey opens Monday, February 14th and closes Sunday, March 13th. USBE anticipates that the survey will take educators about 30 minutes to complete. USBE hopes to gather information about educator’s engagement in education and their perspectives related to the quality of their job experiences. The survey is confidential and the results will be reported in the aggregate.

School administrators don’t need to do anything to distribute the survey, but they are encouraged to notify their faculty that the survey is coming.

Survey results will be published for each school in Tableau after the survey closes.

If you would like to preview the survey questions, you may do so here or you may view the pdf copy attached with this JAM memo.

Please contact Ben Jameson in Evaluation, Research & Accountability with questions.

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The following are new administrative assignments:

  • New Assignments effective February 1, 2022:
    • Shana Mondragon, assistant principal at Mountain Shadows Elementary and Oakcrest Elementary transferred full-time to Oquirrh Elementary, replacing Jerri Crawford.
    • Veronica Holyoke, administrative intern at Sunset Ridge Middle transferred to Mountain Shadows Elementary and Oakcrest Elementary, replacing Shana Mondragon.
    • Elizabeth Pollock, assistant principal at Rosamond Elementary and Ridge View Elementary, transferred full-time to Ridge View Elementary.
    • Allyson Stovall, assistant principal at Southland Elementary transferred to Rosamond Elementary and Southland Elementary.
  • New Assignments effective July 1, 2022:
    • Sally Wilde, administrative intern, appointed assistant principal at a location TBD.
    • April Thompson, administrative intern, appointed assistant principal at a location TBD.
    • Veronica Holyoke, administrative intern, appointed assistant principal at a location TBD.

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Jordan School District (JSD) is committed to finding, hiring and retaining the very best employees possible. We are looking for bus drivers, custodians, nutrition service workers and certain facilities positions! Historically, some of our top talent is found through referrals from people who already work in the JSD. JSD currently has several positions that need to be filled. We would like to encourage JSD employees to share information about employment opportunities and at the same time reward employees for doing so.

The Employee Referral Program is one in which we hope all district employees will participate. The goal of this program is to help hire staff in “hard to fill” ESP positions effective February 1, 2022.

The following positions are eligible to receive a referral bonus:

Assistant Custodian Full Time                           Contract Bus Driver
Facility Carpenter                                                 Contract Bus Attendant
Facility HVAC Technician                                    6 Hour Nutrition Worker
Facility Painter

For information about this program, please visit the following website.

Employee Referral Bonus Website

 

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Jordan School District is currently participating in a trial for Screencastify Pro, a screen recording software for faculty and students. You can sign in to Screencastify by going to screencastify.com and using your Google login and password for the district. This trial will allow teachers and students unlimited time for screen recordings, the ability to save finished videos to Google Drive, and even the option to embed comprehension questions within the videos! On Friday, the Screencastify extension will be made available in both teacher and student Chrome browsers. This is the easiest way to access Screencastify and start using this terrific program. Below I’ve shared a few links to help you get started. Please contact Jared Covili, Consultant for Digital Teaching and Learning, at jared.covili@jordandistrict.org with questions.

Using Screencastify Extension in Chrome
https://learn.screencastify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049546434-Install-the-Record-extension

Starting a recording
https://learn.screencastify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049302954-How-to-make-your-first-recording

Save your edited project directly to Google Drive
https://learn.screencastify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050323993-Save-a-recording-to-your-Google-Drive

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Dear JSD Educators,

The District will open a new elementary school in Herriman beginning in August, 2022. Applications for the Team Lead positions are now being accepted. For information regarding positions available in Phase A, a position advertising schedule, position descriptions and instructions on how to apply, visit the JSD Job Postings at the New School page: Job Postings at the New School Opening August of 2022 

Additional compensated work for certain positions may be required prior to the beginning of the contract year.

JSD educators interested in applying for current or future positions must submit an application​using Frontline Recruiting and Hiring. When searching for open positions, please ensure you are searching in the “Internal Applicants” section. Please see the attached tutorial for application instructions. External applications for licensed positions will be accepted after JSD educators have been give first consideration.

For assistance in submitting an application in Frontline, please contact the Human Resources at 801-567-8224. For questions regarding positions at the new school, please contact Principal Ronna Hoffman at ronna.hoffman@jordandistrict.org.

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DATE:  
January 24, 2022

TO: 
School Psychologists & School Psychology Interns

FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Fulvia Franco, Program Specialist – Guidance

SUBJECT: 
February School Psychologists & School Psychology Interns Meeting

A virtual meeting for school psychologists and school psychology interns has been scheduled for Friday, February 4, 2022, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Cheryl Powell, Administrative Assistant, will send you the Zoom link for the meeting. Deanna Smith, LCSW, Clinical Outreach Coordinator from the OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center will provide us with a presentation on anxiety through the ages: how symptoms of anxiety and OCD alter throughout stages of development.

Part-time Staff:  I would appreciate it if you could adjust your schedules in order to attend this meeting.

cc:
Principals

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DATE:   
January 12, 2022

TO:
High School Principals, Middle School Principals
High School Counselors, Middle School Counselors

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Stacee Worthen, Secondary Counselor Consultant
Jane Harward, Consultant, Science/Health/PE/STEM

SUBJECT:  
Physical Education/Health Graduation Requirement

Please see memo below for the Physical Education/Health requirements for graduation, as approved by the Utah Board of Education.

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DATE:   
January 11, 2022

TO: 
All Administrators

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

SUBJECT:  
Wellness Room “SEL Accelerator” Invitation

You are invited to our first ever SEL Accelerator that is focused exclusively on wellness rooms! This event will be held virtually on January 28th, from 8:30-9:30. Schools with wellness rooms from across the District will give us a 5-minute virtual tour of their wellness rooms and share their “high, low, and a buffalo.”

You can sign up using this link, the QR code on the attached flyer, or by adding it to your calendar and showing up to participate on January 28th! We look forward to learning from all the great work that is being done throughout our District!

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The Summer Conference for the 2022-23 school year will be held on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at Elk Ridge Middle School. All Certified Special Education staff and school administrators are invited to attend. Times and additional information will be coming soon.