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Motivating Good Attendance All Year Long

Attendance Awareness Month 2016 Kickoff Webinar

Click on this link to register:  https://events-na1.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/17179333/en/events/event/shared/1312244105/event_landing.html?sco-id=2149249425&_charset_=utf-8

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
2-3:30 ET
11-12:30 PT

Interested in the latest strategies for leveraging positive messaging to prevent and reduce chronic absence? Join us for our April 12th webinar featuring the new Ad Council campaign from the US Department of Education, California Attorney General Kamala Harris's Positive Parent Messaging toolkit, low-cost, scalable approaches from Harvard Professor Todd Rogers and tips for teachers from the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project.

Attendance Works will also unveil its 2016 Count Us In toolkit to help communities plan for September Attendance Awareness Month. We invite new communities to launch Attendance Awareness Month in September as a step towards a year-round Attendance Awareness Campaign. Our special guests and toolkit offer many ideas to help you plan your activities in the fall, and to develop tools and messaging to keep up a steady drumbeat about the importance of attendance throughout the course of an entire school year.

 

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DATE:
March 15, 2016

TO:
All Principals
All Secondary Assistant Principals
All Attendance Secretaries

FROM:
Administrators of Schools
Laura Finlinson, Administrator of Curriculum & Staff Development
G. Norma Villar, Consultant, Student Intervention Services

SUBJECT:
Policy AS90 Suspensions

District policy AS90 requires a suspension of 45 school days for students found guilty of a second offense possession or first offense distribution. As of March 31, 2016, there are 45 school days remaining in the 2015-16 school year. Students in violation of this policy should be suspended for the remainder of this year. Suspended students are not allowed to participate in any school activities, including end-of-the-year events. Seniors will not be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies, but will be allowed to pick up their diploma the following day.

Please inform your students' parents that the 45-day suspensions after March 31, 2016 will carry over into the 2016-17 school year. This office will send a list to all assistant principals next fall identifying students who have remaining days of suspension.

Questions regarding policy AS90 should be directed to: G. Norma Villar, Consusltant, Student Intervention Services, 801-567-8187.

 

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DATE:
March 24, 2016

TO:
All Principals and Directors

FROM:
June LeMaster, Ph.D., Administrator, Human Resources
Travis Hamblin, Administrator, Licensed
Brent Burge, Administrator, Classified

SUBJECT:
Employee Attendance at Relative's Graduation Exercises

For the past several years, Jordan School District high school graduations have been scheduled off-campus and starting times have varied considerably.  This year, high school graduation exercises are on Thursday, June 2nd.

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.  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 employee's control, it is the expectation that immediate supervisors will cooperate and provide employees who may fall into this category, an opportunity to attend graduation ceremonies of family members.

Employees are responsible for requesting a substitute through the AESOP system, if applicable.  In the “Notes to Administrator” box, the employee should add graduation along with his/her relationship to the graduate.

Any questions should be directed to the appropriate Administrator of Schools.

Cc:  Administrators of Schools

JL/am

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Principals and Administrative Assistants:

Final 2015-2016 immunization reporting is right around the corner.  As we look forward to the 2016-2017 school year, we would like to remind you that all schools are supposed to be in compliance with the Utah State Immunization Guidelines before school starts.

Many schools have allotted extra secretary hours (pool hours) in August to allow more time to achieve compliance.  Compliance really does lead to service for students. Discuss with your peers how they are achieving immunization compliance, or call the Nursing Services Department (Educational Support) for help. See attached list of nurses and their assignments.

We appreciate all of your hard work in ensuring immunization compliance for the 2016-2017 school year.  Please don’t hesitate to call your school nurse for any questions or concerns.

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DATE:   
March 16, 2016

TO:  
Building Administrators

FROM:
Scott Thomas, Administrator
Paul Bergera, Staff Assistant
Ron Boshard, Risk Management Coordinator

SUBJECT:
Great Utah Shake Out

At 10:15 a.m. on April 21, 2016, hundreds of thousands of Utahns will “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” in the Great Utah Shake Out.

All schools are encouraged to participate in this drill or hold an earthquake drill in the month of April. Please take this opportunity to incorporate emergency preparedness in classroom lessons and teach proper ways to protect yourself during an earthquake.  The drill will help us to be prepared for a catastrophe disaster in our area.

We encourage all schools to register at www.ShakeOut.org/Utah. After you register your school, please click on the “Resources” tab; here you will find a Shakeout Drill Manual for K-12 schools. This 17 page manual will provide you great information for your schools exercise.

Please review Incident Command procedures relevant to earthquake drills.

Please plan and prepare to take part in this statewide earthquake response exercise.

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DATE: 
March 15, 2016

TO:
All School Principals
All School Financial Secretaries

FROM: 
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Heather Ellingson, Director of Accounting, Budgets and Audits
Daniel Ellis, Accountant/Internal Auditor

SUBJECT: 
Tickets for Lagoon Activities

We recently received a notice from the Utah State Tax Commission requiring the payment of sales tax on most Lagoon park ticket purchases. As you prepare for your Lagoon trips this year, there are two options for paying sales tax. First, request sales tax be included in your invoice. Second, have students pay for the tickets at the box office upon arriving at the park.

If you have questions or need assistance, please call Dan Ellis at (801)567-8389.

Thank you

Cc:
Michael Anderson, Administrator of Schools
Jill Durrant, Administrator of Schools
Anthony Godfrey, Administrator of Schools
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools
Teri Timpson, Administrator of Schools

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In the Real World, your students may not need to know what animal is on the Great Seal of the United States, but they may need to know why that animal is significant and what it stands for.  That’s where Depth of Knowledge comes in.

Depth of Knowledge (DOK) assures that your course and your assessments have rigor - and that your students gain lasting understanding. This three-hour course will teach the basics of Depth of Knowledge and give you the tools to make your curriculum more rigorous.

See attachment for more information.

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The Alternative Language Services Department is providing training for all office staff who work with EL students. The training will cover the identification process and procedures along with how they can help support EL students in the schools. This will not only help schools provide support, but will help keep schools in compliance. All office staff can register on JPLS for a session that is convenient for them. The training dates and times are:

Date                      Time                    Place                                                      JPLS
4/5/2016             9:30-11:00           ASB Computer Lab Room 112          Course #101034, Section #114391
4/6/2016             1:00-2:30             ASB Computer Lab Room 112          Course #101034, Section #114392
4/14/2016           9:30-11:00           ASB Computer Lab Room 112          Course #101034, Section #114393

See attached flyer.

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No, you aren’t an English teacher, but there are standards of Literacy for all technical subjects, and your students need to be literate in the content of your course.

Join us for some relevant and targeted professional development to help your students learn to read and write your subject.  Participants will be guided through subject-specific reading, writing and presenting strategies to strengthen learning in your content area.

This training, part of the CTE goals this year, is highly recommended for all secondary CTE teachers.

See flyer for details.

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Frustrated by Masteryconnect? Think it won’t work for you and your Language Arts classroom? Been there. Done that.

Come learn tips and tricks from two secondary teachers who have been in the trenches and dug through the mire to figure out how to use Masteryconnect. In this class we aren’t reinventing the wheel. We will be going over how to take assignments you already have created/use/and love and format them for easy entry into Masteryconnect.

See flyer for details.

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DATE:
March 7, 2016

TO:  
School Psychologists

FROM: 
Laura Finlinson, Administrator of Curriculum/Staff Development & Special Programs
Lisa Robinson, Director of Special Education
Fulvia Franco, Program Specialist – Guidance

SUBJECT:
March School Psychologists’ Meeting

A school psychologists’ meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, March 17, 2016, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Jordan School District Auxiliary Services Building Auditorium (7905 South Redwood Road). Melisa Genaux, Jordan School District autism specialist, and Brian King, Jordan School District behavior specialist, will provide us with continued training on the Tough Kid book Chapter 6. Please remember to read Chapter 6 before coming to this meeting. You will also be asked to share the strategies in Chapter 5 that you implemented in your school(s).

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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Principals and Administrative Assistants:

Final 2015-2016 immunization reporting is right around the corner. As we look forward to the 2016-2017 school year, we would like to remind you that all schools are supposed to be in compliance with the Utah state immunization guidelines before school starts.

Many schools have allotted extra secretary hours in August, through pool hours, to allow more time to achieve compliance.  Remember, compliance leads to service. Discuss with your peers how they are achieving immunization compliance, or call the Nursing Services Department (Educational Support) for help.

We appreciate all of your hard work in ensuring immunization compliance for the 2016-2017 school year.  Please don’t hesitate to call your school nurse for any questions or concerns.

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DATE:
December 5, 2012

TO:
Department Administrators
Principals

FROM:
Patrice A. Johnson, Superintendent

SUBJECT:
Reminder: Retirement Bells No Longer Purchased By the Board

The Board of Education made the decision at the end of last year to continue to purchase clocks for retirees that are presented at the annual retirement dinner in May; however, the Board will no longer be purchasing an additional gift, which has traditionally been a retirement bell. Schools and departments are welcome to purchase bells on their own for their retirees.

The following information may be helpful to schools and departments that may wish to purchase bells for their retirees.

Contact:
Stacey Hessel
Customer Service/Sales Apple Awards Inc.
1-800-248-6243
stacey@appleawards.com

We have been ordering the Large Hand Bell #2CW with the following engraving:

Name of Employee
In Appreciation for Outstanding Service
Jordan School District

The cost for the bell with engraving is within $65 to $70.

Schools or departments can order with a purchase order or credit card online at www.appleawards.com or fax the order to 1-715-634-3334. The purchase should be made from the Principal’s Discretionary account.