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Category: Middle Schools

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DATE:
August 12, 2019

TO:
District Administration

FROM:
Administrators of Schools
Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services

SUBJECT:
10th Day Enrollment vs. the Estimate
Year-round Schools, Tracks A, B, C
(based on August 8, 2019 count)

Please see attached memo.

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DATE:  
August 12, 2019

TO:  
All Elementary, Middle, and Traditional High School Principals

FROM: 
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Derek Anderson, Director of Accounting, Budgets, and Audits

SUBJECT:   
School Year 2019-2020 Estimated Budgets

Attached is a schedule of your annual school allocation budgets. Please look over them and let Derek know if you have any questions. Budgets will be revised once the official October 1 enrollment counts are available. Budget transfers will be sent out in December and June.

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When scheduling Field/Activity Trips for the 2019-2020 school year, please make note of the following moratorium dates and times when Transportation will not be able to accommodate Field/Activity trips. (See attachment below - the only revised date is the ACT date of March 3, 2020)

Please contact us with any questions: Kitt at 801-567-8809 or Michele at 801-567-8804

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This year CNS will be our preferred provider for Flu Shot Clinics in your school.  Two FLu Shot Clinics have been schedule already:

District Office
September 25, 2019
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

ASB
September 19, 2019
3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

If you would like to schedule a Flu Shot Clinic, and receive preferred pricing, please contact Cheryl Matson in the JSD Insurance Office and she will help facilitate setting up the clinic for your school. Dates and times are filling up fast.

Please see attached flyer.

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The NSTA Conference will be held in Salt Lake City Utah this year on October 24-26 during the JSD fall break.

Please see flyer below for the details.

Early bird registration ends on September 23 and advance registration ends on October 4.

For questions call or email Jane Harward, jane.harward@jordandistrict.org

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Please take note of the following items:

Plan on bringing an electronic device in order to access the agenda and conference materials.

Handouts will be uploaded as they become available.

Due to limited parking we would encourage you to carpool with team members.

See agenda below.

 

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For three days, Z104 Utah's "Dave & Deb" will sleep in a school bus to raise awareness and gather donations for kids in need along the Wasatch front. Jordan Education Foundation and Jordan District are one of the 9 school district beneficiaries sponsored by Utah Board of Realtors & Z104 Radio.

Needed Supplies can be donated August 7-9 at the Southtown Mall Parking Lot or at any local Les Schwab location. Please see list for needed items.  

 

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All Administrators/Directors:

Please personally invite your entire classified staff to this event. This would include your administrative assistants, all aides, custodial staff, nutrition services staff, maintenance, any other employees that are classified.

If you have questions, please contact a Cabinet member.

Thank you!

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SafeUT Updates:

Form link: https://forms.gle/dxGLSPtDUBzBrpcC8

All individuals expected to be on the SafeUT Dashboard need to complete the electronic form found at the link above. Due to the high volume of administrative and personnel changes at each school, all SafeUT Dashboard changes will be made to match this electronic form. REGARDLESS of the information that is currently in the Dashboard, please fill out this form.

Please have ALL school personnel (including administrators) that you would like to be on the SafeUT Dashboard complete this form by 8/9/2019 so that tips will be sent to the right people on the first day of school.

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Suicide Prevention Grant Request

Form link: https://forms.gle/vptSt97cXeYwZhHt8

Please fill out the electronic form found at the link above if you would like to request funds to implement evidence-based practices and programs for preventing suicide through USBE's Suicide Prevention Grant. There is no guarantee that each school will be awarded funds, but all requests that meet the grant requirements will be submitted for approval to USBE.

Secondary schools may request a minimum of $1000 per school.

Additional instructions are included in the form. Requests are due by 8/9/2019.

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DATE:  
August 1, 2019

TO:  
All Principals

FROM:   
Human Resource Administrators
Administrator of Schools

SUBJECT:  
Guidelines for Classroom Observations or Student Teacher Requests

Principals are directed to follow the guidelines below when receiving requests for classroom observations or student teaching assignments at their school locations. College/University students will have received and cleared a background check during their post-graduate institution program prior to beginning their classroom observation or student teaching experience.  All concerns regarding college/university student assignments should be directed immediately to an HR administrator.

Classroom Observation Requests
Requests for short-term observations from college/university students or advisors must include a written request to the school principal from the college/university advisor.  Such requests are approved at the discretion of the principal and the written requests are to remain at the school location.  Students approved to observe in the classroom are to be supervised at all times. 

Student Teacher Requests
During the student teacher assignment, an HR administrator will serve as a liaison between the principal and the college/university advisor; however, the advisor will work directly with the principal and the cooperating teacher.

Requests to student teach are approximately two to three months in duration and are made through the HR Department by the college/university advisor.  An HR administrator will contact interested principal(s) who will then identify a cooperating teacher meeting the following criteria and expectations.  The cooperating teacher must:

  • be a career teacher (not provisional);
  • is willing to complete student teacher evaluations;
  • is willing to work with the college/university advisor and allow the advisor to conduct classroom observations; and
  • will instruct, model, and mentor the student teacher in professionalism, best teaching practices and classroom management.

Please feel free to call an HR administrator with any questions regarding this process.

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DATE:  
Thursday, August 1, 2019

TO:  
All Schools

FROM:  
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT: 
Earbud Orders for the RISE Summative and the Utah Aspire Plus Summative Tests

Students will have the option to have text read to them on the RISE Summative and Utah Aspire Plus Summative tests once again this year.  Principals or their designee are encouraged to place an order for student earbuds.  Please place your order by Friday, September 27, 2019.

To place an order, please click here.

Earbuds may be used for other district- or state-mandated tests, but schools will need to devise 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 2-10.

If schools wish to purchase additional earbuds for other uses, school administrators are welcome to contact Gaylene Miller in the Evaluation, Research & Accountability Department at 801-567-8185 who can share the purchasing information obtained in the purchasing procedures and quotes used to acquire these earbuds.

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Principals & Administrative Assistants:

The Administrators of Schools have some instructions they asked us to send out regarding the August 13th professional development. Each school will need to provide sign in sheets, with their staff names listed in alphabetical order as well as two columns for their staff to sign in. They will be signing in when they first arrive as well as when lunch is finished. A sample is provided with this email. Please send a copy (hard copy or electronically) to your AOS secretary, by August 5th, as well as provide a copy on a clipboard with pen attached for your principal to bring with them on the day of the conference (August 13th). Elementary principals will be stationed along the sides of the chairs with their clipboard and a sign that will be provided with your school name on it, so staff will be able to see where their principal can be found. High school and middle school principals will be on the first row of tables behind the chairs to sign in their staff members.

Principals, we would ask that you be at the Mountain America Expo Center no later than 7:15 a.m. so we can help you find your sign in area and get your sign to you. You may want to notify teachers that it would be a good idea to come early as there will be a lot of people trying to park and get signed in before the 8:00 a.m. start time.

Superintendent Godfrey would like each school to sit together. A seating chart will be sent out to each school a few days prior to the conference. At that time please make a copy for your principal to have on the clipboard for reference. You may also want to send a copy to your staff members so they have an idea of where your school will be seated.

Thanks for your help! AOS Administrative Assistants

 

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The following are new administrative assignments effective August 1, 2019:

Allyson Stovall, teacher at Terra Linda Elementary, appointed administrator on special assignment in the Teaching & Learning Department.

Mandy Thurman, currently assistant principal at Hayden Peak & Bluffdale Elementaries, appointed consultant in the Teaching & Learning Department.

Elizabeth Felt, teacher specialist in the Teaching & Learning Department, appointed assistant principal at Blackridge & South Jordan Elementary Schools.

Ami Shah, teacher specialist in the Special Education Department, appointed assistant principal at Riverton & West Jordan Elementary Schools.

Nicole Johnson, currently on a leave of absence, appointed assistant principal at Columbia, Copper Canyon, Rosamond, Westvale, Jordan Hills & Westland Elementary Schools.

Cathy Ford, currently assistant principal at South Jordan & Blackridge Elementaries, appointed assistant principal at Hayden Peak, Falcon Ridge & Mountain Shadows Elementary Schools.

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DATE:    
July 25, 2019

TO:  
Principals
Elementary and Middle School Resource Team Leaders
High School Special Education Team Leaders
Self-contained Support Class Teachers

FROM: 
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Special Education Director

SUBJECT:
25 Hour to 35 Hour Instructional Assistant Confidentiality and GoalView Trainings

The Special Education Department is offering some basic training to review confidentiality and GoalView training for instructional assistants that work 25 to 35 hours per week.  Please send all of your 25 to 35 hour per week assistants to one of the following training sessions.

August 15, 2019:
8:30am – 9:30am South Valley School Room 9

August 16, 2019:
8:30am – 9:30am South Valley School Room 9
1:00pm – 2:00pm South Valley School Room 9

Instructional Assistants with 25 to 35 hours per week should only pick one session each to attend and no instructional assistants less than 25 hours per week should attend this particular training.

To register for this training please contact Amanda Hamblin at 801-567-8176 or amanda.hamblin@jordandistrict.org with your session choice and which school you work in.

If the training session attended is outside of regular paid contract time, compensation will be provided.

If you have questions please call the special education department at 801-567-8177.

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DATE:  
July 25, 2019

TO:   
Principals
Elementary and Middle School Resource Team Leaders
High School Special Education Team Leaders
Self-contained Support Class Teachers

FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Special Education Director

SUBJECT:  
Instructional Assistant Trainings

The Special Education Department is offering training sessions for instructional assistants.  There are several options for instructional assistants to choose from in topics of trainings and dates these trainings are available.  These trainings are for all instructional assistants regardless of the number of hours they work.

Each instructional assistant should attend ONE half-day session and within that half-day, choose two sessions to attend.  Every Session runs 90 minutes.  The sessions cover behavior, data collection, instructional practices and the inside out of a special education classroom.

The dates and training schedules are as follows: (pick only one day and either the AM Sessions or the PM Sessions)

August 19, 2019 – ASB

  • AM Session 8:00am to 9:30am and 9:35am to 11:05am (every session runs for 90 minutes each)
    • Behavior and Class Management – PDC Room 101
    • Data Collection – PDC Room 102
    • Instructional Practices – PDC Room 103
    • Inside Out of a special education classroom – PDC Room 113
  • PM Session 12:00pm to 1:30pm and 1:35pm to 3:05pm
    • Behavior and Class Management – PDC Room 101
    • Data Collection – PDC Room 102
    • Instructional Practices – PDC Room 103
    • Inside Out of a special education classroom – PDC Room 113

September 12, 2019 - ASB

  • AM Session 8:00am to 9:30am and 9:35am to 11:05am (every session runs for 90 minutes each)
    • Behavior and Class Management – PDC Room 101
    • Data Collection – PDC Room 103
    • Inside Out of a special education instructional Practices – PDC Room 113
  • PM Session 12:00pm to 1:30pm and 1:35pm to 3:05pm
    • Behavior and Class Management – PDC Room 101
    • Data Collection – PDC Room 103
    • Inside Out of a special education instructional Practices – PDC Room 113

September 13, 2019 - ASB

  • AM Session 8:00am to 9:30am and 9:35am to 11:05am (every session runs for 90 minutes each)
    • Behavior and Class Management – PDC Room 101
    • Data Collection – PDC Room 102
    • Inside Out of a special education instructional Practices – PDC Room 113
  • PM Session 12:00pm to 1:30pm and 1:35pm to 3:05pm
    • Behavior and Class Management – PDC Room 101
    • Data Collection – PDC Room 102
    • Inside Out of a special education instructional Practices – PDC Room 113

To register for this training please contact Amanda Hamblin at 801-567-8176 or amanda.hamblin@jordandistrict.org with your session and class choices and which school you work in.

If the training session attended is outside of regular paid contract time, compensation will be provided.

If you have questions please call the special education department at 801-567-8177.

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During the 2019-20 school year, the Department of Teaching and Learning, in partnership with Southern Utah University, will sponsor classes for a Gifted and Talented Teaching Endorsement. Please see the attachments for more details, and please relay this information to teachers who may be interested in the endorsement.

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Jordan Education Foundation (JEF) CLASSROOM GRANT applications will be accepted Thursday, August 1 through Thursday, Ocotber 31, 2019.

See flyer for details.

To apply: Go to jordaneducationfoundation.org, and click on the Classroom Grants APPLY HERE link found on the front page.