Jordan School District
Training will be provided for Elementary and Secondary Principals, Assistant Principals and School Resource Officers.
Friday, August 9, 2019
JATC South Auditorium
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
See flyer for more details.
DATE:
July 18, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Revised Dates for Data Dives with School Administrators
Because of a scheduling conflict and Questar’s inability to provide student level RISE data by its July 15th deadline, the principal data dive schedule for August 5th has been postponed. Additional elementary sections have also been added.
School administrators – principals and assistant principals – need only attend one of the available sessions:
| Level | Date | Time | Location |
| Elementary | Sep. 10, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
| Elementary | Sep. 10, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
| Secondary | Sep. 18, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | PDC 103 |
| Elementary | Sep. 18, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | PDC 103 |
| Secondary | Sep. 24, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | PDC 101 |
| Secondary | Sep. 24, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | PDC 101 |
| Elementary | Sep. 25, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
| Elementary | Sep. 25, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
For elementary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:
For secondary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:
School administrators will need to bring a laptop (except for the sessions in the ASB computer lab) and their Tableau login credentials. Assistant principals will need to use their principal’s login credentials.
Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions about these trainings.
DATE:
July 15, 2019
TO:
Principals
Speech-Language Pathologists
Speech-Language Technicians
Audiologists
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Kristin Norris, CCC-SLP, TS, Speech-Language-Audiology Program
SUBJECT:
2019-20 Speech-Language-Audiology Assignments
Attached are the Speech-Language-Audiology Assignments for K-12, current as of July 15, 2019. These assignments are subject to change.
Please read these assignments carefully and direct any questions or concerns to Kristin Norris @ 801-567-8372 or kristin.norris@jordandistrict.org. Thank you for your attention to these issues.
Attachments
DATE:
July 15, 2019
TO:
Principals
Speech-Language Pathologists
Speech-Language Technicians
Audiologists
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Kristin Norris, CCC-SLP, TS, Speech-Language-Audiology Program
SUBJECT:
2019-20 Professional Development Dates
Attached are the dates and location that have been determined for Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist Professional Development. Attendance is optional with principal permission.
DATE:
Thursday, July 11, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Data Dives with School Administrators
An opportunity to dive into your school’s data has been made available. There are two sessions for elementary level and two sessions for secondary principals and assistant principals. School administrators need only to attend one of the available sessions:
| Level | Date | Time | Location |
| Elementary | Aug. 5, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
| Elementary | Aug. 5, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | ASB Computer Lab D112 |
| Secondary | Sep. 18, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | PDC 103 |
| Elementary | Sep. 18, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | PDC 103 |
| Secondary | Sep. 24, 2019 | 8:00-11:30 am | PDC 101 |
| Secondary | Sep. 24, 2019 | 12:00-3:30 pm | PDC 101 |
For elementary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:
For secondary school administrators, we will dive into the following data:
School administrators will need to bring a laptop (except the Aug. 5th session) and their Tableau login credentials. Assistant principals will need to use their principal’s login credentials.
Please contact Ben Jameson with any questions about these trainings.
DATE:
June 26, 2019
TO:
Principals
New and 2nd Year Special Educators
Special Ed Mentors
FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Julie Brown, Program Specialist
SUBJECT:
Special Education New Teacher Induction Training
The Special Education Department has scheduled a series of trainings for special educators that are new to Jordan School District as well as other trainings for Special Educators in their 2nd year with Jordan School District. There are also training opportunities for special education mentors. Please release these special educators so that they may attend these important training opportunities. However, attendance is at the principal’s discretion. Special education will cover the substitute costs for trainings that occur during the school day (Budget code: 1292). If the training occurs after school, the special educators will be paid at inservice rate.
Please see the attached training schedule for details on dates, locations and registration information.
For more information, please contact Robin Silatolu at robin.silatolu@jordandistrict.org or 801-567-8352.
DATE:
July 1, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Administrator of Schools
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services
SUBJECT:
Student Enrollment for June 2019
Please see attached memo.
In order to better manage and maintain iPads in the district, schools will be required to purchase a JAMF School iPad management software license for each new iPad. This is similar to what is required for all Chromebook purchases. The license is a onetime purchase from Apple and would be included on your Apple iPad order (part number HL2M2LL/A). The current price of the license is $17.50 per iPad. Information Systems has purchased 2,500 licenses that school techs will be installing on iPads that were purchased in the last three years.
DATE:
June 24, 2019
TO:
All Secondary Principals and All Secondary Counselors
FROM:
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools, High School Level
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools, Middle School Level
Shelley Nordick, Administrator, Teaching and Learning
Stacy Evans, Staff Assistant, Teaching and Learning
Stacee Worthen, Secondary Counselor Specialist
SUBJECT:
2019-20 Comprehensive School Counseling Program (CSCP) Calendar
CSCP dates are planned in advance so that individual counseling teams will include them in their school and CSCP calendars. Please see memo below with the scheduled dates.
Consistent with Jordan School District Transportation priorities, our most important objective is to deliver students to school and back home safely and on time. Please see the document below for the Jordan School District Transportation priorities.
Year-Round
July 17th
8:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Traditional Elementary
August 12th
8:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Secondary
August 12th
12:00 - 3:00 p.m.
The district-wide Licensed Educator Professional Development Day is scheduled for Tuesday, August 13, 2019 from 8:00 - 3:30 pm at the Mountain America Expo Center, located at 9575 State Street, Sandy UT. We will have two national speakers on the program and lunch will be provided.
DATE:
Thursday, June 20, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
WIDA Data Dashboards Now Available on Principal Tableau Viewer Accounts
The Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department is pleased to announce that a series of data dashboards containing WIDA Access 2.0 achievement data from the last three school years have been pushed out to principal Tableau Viewer Accounts.
There are four subtests that students take as part of the WIDA: Listening, reading, speaking and writing. Students earn a Language Proficiency Level (LPL) of 1-6, with LPLs of 5 or 6 being the ultimate goal:
Below is a summary of what the dashboards contain at both the district level and individual school level:
In the near future, we will push out an additional dashboard that will contain the years of service each EL student has received and whether or not they met their growth target for the School Accountability Report Card.
Please contact Ben Jameson if you have any questions about these data or about how to use Tableau. If you have not set up your Tableau Viewer account, please contact Ben Jameson for instructions on how to do so (or see the step-by-step instructions attached with this memo). Please see the attached document for instructions on how to download and print any of the dashboards in your viewer account.
Principals may share their Tableau login credentials with their assistant principals.
To log into your Tableau account, please click here: https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO
Effective July 1, 2019
2019-20 INSERVICE RATE
$23.71 PER HOUR
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to do more with spreadsheets. Participants are encouraged to bring their own projects, but sample files and projects will be available during the workshop. All tasks can be completed in either Excel or Google Sheets, and it will be up to the participants to choose an application. Each day of the workshop will focus on 3-4 of the topics listed below. Sign up in JPLS: course number 101427.
For course descriptions and dates please see document below.
DATE:
June 3, 2019
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Administrator of Schools
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services
SUBJECT:
Student Enrollment for May 2019
Please see attached memo.
"Attention Administrators: As you are all aware, West Jordan Middle is being rebuilt, so they will have a lot of their furniture, appliances, projectors, and other surplus items that they will not be taking to their new building. Before we make it available to the public at an on-site sale, we would like to make it available to the rest of the schools in Jordan District.
Principals will be able to view and select items that can be transferred to their respective schools on Thursday, June 6th, two days before the public sale from 8 AM to 4 PM. The central warehouse will take care of the physical transfer either the same day or by Monday of the next week. Paperwork will need to be filled out and signed, so principals will be the only ones authorized to select items for transfer. If interested, please contact Steve Oldham in the surplus warehouse, as he will be on site at WJMS to coordinate the effort."
For a list of administrative assignment changes for the 2019-20 school year, click on the link below:
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K-12 Accident plans are available for injury, at-school accidents, 24-hour accidents, extended dental and football. See attached flyers (English and Spanish) for additional information. Please consider including the information in your school packets.
DATE:
May 16, 2019
TO:
All Principals and Directors
FROM:
June LeMaster, Ph.D., Administrator, Human Resources
Administrator of Schools
SUBJECT:
Employee Attendance at Relative's Graduation Exercises
This year, all high school graduation exercises are on Thursday, May 30th, with the exception of Valley High on Wednesday, May 29th.
Principals and Directors are encouraged to direct parents or grandparents who may wish to attend these graduations, but who are scheduled to work in their own locations to District Policy DP335 NEG and DP335B NEG. This policy specifically states: "Personal leave shall not be taken during the first five days and last five days that students are in school except...to attend to personal or business matters which require the employee's attendance and scheduling is beyond the employee's control."
Since graduation scheduling is beyond the employees’ control, it is desirable that immediate supervisors will cooperate and provide employees who may fall into this category, an opportunity to attend graduation ceremonies of family members.
Licensed employees are responsible for requesting a substitute through the Absence Management system, if applicable. In the blue “Notes to Administrator” box, the employee should add “graduation” along with his/her relationship to the graduate.
For additional assistance, please contact Juli Martin in the sub office at 801-567-8219.
Cc:
Administrators of Schools
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