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Reminder:  We will be providing a course designed for school administrators and their administrative assistants to more fully understand the budget planning process. Participants will be expected to bring information needed to complete at least one of their budgets that includes employee costs (i.e. TSSA, Trustlands, Title I, In Lieu, etc.)

You will need to bring a current Skyward detail report for the target budget that includes all salary and benefit expenses. The course will focus on looking up salary information in Skyward, determining loaded salary expenses, and how to review and revise budgets based on ongoing Skyward budget reports. This is an introductory course but each participant will leave with at least one budget plan completed. If possible, it would be best to have the administrator and administrative assistant attend and learn together. Class sizes will be limited. You only need to register for one of the sections.

Please register in JPLS. All courses will be offered at the District Office, Room 129.

Please bring your laptop (most tablets cannot run Excel).

Course ID# 101498

Section ID
#115998, December 5, 2019, 1:00 - 3:00 PM - Session is filled
#115999, December 17, 2019, 9:00 - 11:00 AM
#116000, December 19, 2019, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
#116001, January 14, 2020, 9:00 - 11:00 AM

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DATE:  
October 28, 2019

TO:  
All Middle and High School Head Financial Secretaries

FROM:    
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Dan Ellis, Director of Accounting
Jason Mott, Accountant/Internal Auditor

SUBJECT:  
2019 W-9 Forms 1099 Information

(EXTREMELY IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS THOROUGHLY – CALL IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS) - Deadline Friday, Decmeber 13, 2019.

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The following are new administrative assignments:


Assignment Effective 11/4/2019:

  • Karl McKenzie, teacher specialist in the Special Education Department, be appointed assistant principal at Kauri Sue Hamilton School.

Assignments Effective As Soon As Possible:

  • Scott Festin, senior planner/demographics at Wasatch Front Regional Council, be appointed Planning & Enrollment consultant in the Student Services Department.
  • Garrett York, intern assistant principal at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Granite School District, be appointed elementary assistant principal - assignment to be determined.

Assignment Effective January 17, 2019 or As Soon As Possible:

  • Caleb Olson, assistant principal at Sunset Ridge Middle School, be appointed Planning & Enrollment consultant in the Student Services Department.

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DATE: 
October 31, 2019

TO:   
All Principals, Directors and Supervisors
School/Department Administrative Assistants

FROM:  
John Larsen, Business Administrator
June LeMaster, Administrator of Human Resources
Brent Burge, HR Administrator Classified
Sarah Palmer, Director of Payroll

SUBJECT:   
Classified Part-Time Employee Work Hour Maximums UPDATE

This memo replaces earlier memos with the same subject.

 

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Parent & Teen Talk - Let's Connect!

Parent seminar to discuss parent-teen connection, the effects of social media on the brain, and supporting LGBTQ youth @ West Jordan Middle School, open to all parents and community members in Jordan.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019
6:00 p.m.
West Jordan Middle School

See flyer below for more details. Please post flyer in your school and share with appropriate people in your school and community.

 

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DATE:
October 23, 2019

TO:
Principals

FROM:
Administrators of Schools
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Steven Harwood, Support Services/Programming Manager

SUBJECT:
Fall Enrollment as of October 1, 2019 - Revised

Please see memo and totals below.

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POWERSCHOOL PERMIT TRAINING

Date: 
November 14th

Time:  
9am-11am or 1pm-3pm
Choose one session to attend
Registration is not required

     AND

Date:
November 19th

Time:
10am-12pm
Registration is not required

Who:  
School personnel who currently or may potentially work with school choice permits

Where:
Jordan District Auxiliary Services Building Auditorium
7800 South Redwood Road
Park on the North end of the building, Enter through the 1st Auditorium door.
You will need to use your card access ID badge to gain entrance into the building.

Any person that will be working with permits will need to have a password. IF they do not ALREADY have one - please let Donna Kolva (801.567.8259) or donna.kolva@jordandistrict.org) know and she can initiate that process.

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Please review the following upcoming due dates for provisional and probationary full evaluations.

Year-round
Track A  -  November 1, 2019
Track B  -  November 1, 2019
Track C  -  December 4, 2019
Track D  -  December 11, 2019

Traditional
November 20, 2019

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Head Custodian Picture day will be held during our November 20th workshop. We would like every Head Custodian to have a professional picture taken for our display board at the ASB. Please make arrangements for them to attend this “mandatory” Custodial Workshop. It would be great if they could wear a school logo shirt and look the part to represent your school. Our November Custodial Workshop will be held November 20th starting starting at 8:30 a.m. and should conclude no later than 10:00 a.m.  Thank you for your support.

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Administrators and teacher leaders are invited to the 2019 Learning Edge Conference. “Arts for Life: Deep Learning, Deep Connections” is scheduled for November 12, 2019 at the Provo Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. See attached flyer for more information.

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Optional training will be provided the mornings of October 28th and November 21st at JATC South by the Business and Auxiliary Services Departments. More detail on topics and times will be provided later. This training opportunity is meant for any school or department office personnel including principals, assistant principals, administrative assistants, clerks, aides or others with responsibilities correlating with the Business or Auxiliary Services departments.

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Cabinet members will be interviewing all administrators currently employed by Jordan School District who wish to be considered for an elementary or middle school principal position between now and October 2020. Similar interviews will be held each fall for anyone who has not interviewed previously. This year's interviews will be held on Monday, November 18, and Wednesday, November 20.

Any administrator interested in being interviewed this year should email Angela Montague at angela.montague@jordandistrict.org by Monday, October 21st at 5:00 p.m. Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for an elementary principal position, a middle school principal position, or both. This process is not designed to select principals for newly-constructed schools or any school in particular. No application or documentation is required.

Any questions should be directed to a Cabinet member. We look forward to getting to know you better.

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TO:                                                                                            
All Principals

FROM:                                                                                        
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Superintendent of Schools

DATE: 
October 10, 2019

SUBJECT: 
Licensed Employee Advisory Committee for the Board

The Board of Education is forming an advisory committee made up of licensed employees from every school in the District.  The purpose of this committee is to advise the Board regarding issues that affect licensed employees (salaries, grants, leave, etc.).  Representatives will meet four times during the year (November, January, April, and July) and will be compensated at their hourly rate for participation.

Elementary and special schools, Valley High School and Academies will send one representative; middle schools two; and high schools three.  Help us in selecting the assigned number of representatives from your school by using the following process.  Please adhere to these procedures exactly as outlined.

Nomination

Elementary and special schools, Valley High School and Academies will need a minimum of two nominees; middle schools a minimum of three; and high schools a minimum of four.  Additional nominees are at your discretion.

  1. Invite licensed employees to nominate, by secret ballot, the name of the licensed employee they would like to represent your school. Administrators are not eligible to serve on this committee.
  2. Ask those nominated if they would be willing to serve. Serving as a committee member is not mandatory. If a licensed employee is unwilling or unable to serve, ask the next highest vote receiver, until you have the desired number of nominees.

Voting

  1. Prepare a secret ballot for each licensed employee (including administrators) with the names of the nominees. The Board would prefer this be done by secret ballot to ensure that no employee feels pressure to vote for a particular nominee.
  2. All licensed employees at elementary and special schools, Valley High School and Academies should be encouraged to vote for one nominee; middle school licensed employees two; and high school licensed employees three.
  3. Tally the results.
  4. For elementary and special schools, Valley High School and Academies, the top vote receiver is the representative and the next highest will serve as an alternate.
  5. For middle schools, the top two vote receivers are the representatives and the next highest will serve as an alternate.
  6. For high schools, the top three vote receivers are the representatives and the next highest will serve as an alternate.

Please inform the representatives, the alternate, your faculty, and me of the results. Representatives will be contacted with meeting dates, times and location.  The first meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 13th from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Thank you for your help with this matter.  We are confident that this advisory committee will have a positive impact on the lives of our educators.

 

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National School Bus Safety Week is October 21-25.  Since that is Fall Recess for all of our traditional schools, we would like to observe School Bus Safety Week October 14-18.  The following resources are available to your students:

Middle Schools: