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Category: Middle Schools

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Middle School Principals
High School Principals

FROM:
Jason Skidmore, CTE Director

It's time to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the Jordan School District! The "Jordan At-A-Glance 23-24" report showcases impressive graduation rates and highlights the district's robust Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. These initiatives empower students with valuable certifications in fields like Health Science, Engineering, Computer Science, and Digital Media. Dive into this data to see how our Jordan District CTE sets the stage for student success and leads the way in educational excellence.

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Principals

FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent

Hello There,

I wanted to reach out to share some exciting resources that are available to Salt Lake County schools! Jordan Valley Water is thrilled to be offering free school tours of both our Water Treatment Plant and Conservation Garden Park to Grades 3 and up. High school tours are also available—if interested please reply to the email below and I will send you a specific high school tour flyer. We believe that these tours will provide valuable learning experiences for staff and students alike, and we would love to have your school district represented!

We would greatly appreciate it if you could help spread the word by sharing the attached flyer with teachers and educational staff within your district. These flyers contain all the necessary details and information on how to register for a tour. It’s a great opportunity for teachers to learn about resources they can incorporate into their classrooms, as well as to provide hands-on experiences for their students.

Thank you for your support and we hope to see you on a tour soon!

Madeline Sueltz
Community Outreach Coordinator
madelines@jvwcd.org

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All Administrators
Administrative Assistants

FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Brian King, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Special Education
Mike Trimmell, Ed.D., Special Education Administrator

Attached is the Special Ed Newsletter for April 2025.

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DATE: 
April 10, 2025

 TO: 
Jordan District Administrators, Directors

FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Administrators of Schools

SUBJECT:
Time Schedule for the Last Day of School

Please review this memo carefully for your school dismissal time, and convey this information to your students and parents.

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DATE:   
April 9, 2025

TO:    
School Administrators
School Safety Specialists

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Matt Alvernaz, School Safety Coordinator

SUBJECT:   
April Safety Drill – Great Utah ShakeOut 2025

On Thursday, April 17th 2025, at 10:15 A.M. a million Utahns will “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” in the annual Great Utah ShakeOut Earthquake Drill.

All schools are encouraged to participate in this drill during the designated time, or to conduct an earthquake drill sometime in the month of April. This is an opportunity to incorporate emergency preparedness in classroom lessons and to include proper ways to protect oneself during an earthquake.

The Jordan School District has registered as a whole to participate in the Great Utah ShakeOut. You can find more information at: www.ShakeOut.org/Utah.

Please review the Jordan School District Safety Manual - Earthquake Action Plan and Standard Operating Guidelines on pages 28-31 for planning, drilling and responding to an earthquake.

For additional information or guidance please contact the District School Safety Coordinator, Matt Alvernaz at matt.alvernaz@jordandistrict.org or by phone at 801-567-8623.

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DATE: 
April 10, 2025

TO: 
All Principals and All Counselors

FROM:  
Michael Anderson, Ph.D., Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Stacee Worthen, School Counselor Consultant

SUBJECT:  
2025-2026 Comprehensive School Counseling Program (CSCP) Calendar

Comprehensive School Counseling Program (CSCP) dates are planned so that individual counseling teams may include them in their school and CSCP calendars. It is essential that counselors prioritize and attend CSCP meetings as they work to perform their other duties and tasks. This allows counselors to enhance their skills, understand responsibilities and expectations, gain mastery on compliance-related items, and improve upon best practices and positive workflow.

See the full schedule on the memo below.

 

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DATE:    
April 7, 2025

TO:  
All Principals

FROM: 
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Brian King, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Special Education
Mike Trimmell, Ed.D., Special Education Administrator

SUBJECT: 
DSPD Training

Special Education is partnering with the Department of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD) and the Utah Parent Center to host a virtual information session on April 15, 2025. This event is for anyone with a student that has a disability. DSPD provides community resources to students with disabilities. It is important that students get on the waitlist early!

The training will include information such as: What exactly is DSPD, and why should I be on the waitlist? What are the benefits for people waiting for services? Join us to answer these questions and more! Hosted by Amber Beck, Jordan School District Parent Consultant, and Calleen Kenney, Family to Family Network Coordinator, with guest Anna Dees DSPD Intake Specialist.

Please distribute the attached flyer to your community.

For more information or questions about the event, please contact Ashley Calhoun at 801-567-8208 or ashley.calhoun@jordandistrict.org

 

JSD DSPD Training Flyer - English

JSD DSPD Training Flyer - Spanish

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DATE:
April 7, 2025

TO:
Principals
All Certified Special Education Staff

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

SUBJECT:
End of Year SCRAM Detail Report

All Special Education providers will receive a copy of this memo to review for year-end SCRAM procedures. Please read it carefully as several items have been modified/updated to include new procedures implemented with our Embrace program. The SCRAM report will be sent to the team leader for each school via District Mail. Once you have read through the memo, use the process you have in place at your school to include all service providers to share the report and make the necessary corrections. Scram reports and corrections are due no later than Friday, May 2, 2025.

Please work together as a team and only return one copy of the report with all corrections for each school.

NEW PROCEDURE AS OF APRIL 2025:
For the remainder of this school year and going forward our procedure will be to submit SCRAM electronically through Embrace only. It is no longer required to continue to submit the paper version. If there are inconsistencies in the submission of Embrace SCRAM we will once again need to implement the paper SCRAM.

Please read the attached Memo and tip sheet for more information before you proceed with the SCRAM report.

Submit all SCRAM changes and/or corrections AND the signed SCRAM report to Jen Warkentine at the District Office.

If you have questions, please contact the Teacher Specialist assigned to your school or Jen Warkentine at (801) 567-8207 or jen.warkentine@jordandistrict.org.

All SCRAM reports and SCRAM document changes must be received by the Special Education Office no later than Friday, May 2, 2025.

 

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All Administrators
All Administrative Assistants

FROM:
April Gaydosh, Administrator of Human Resources

If you are a contracted employee (Benefit eligible) and need to take Annual/Personal Leave on a Critical Day before or after Memorial Day for any reason not listed in policy DP335NEG or DP335B, you must submit a request as follows:

How to Request
During the window, the employee must send the request through email. Please include your name, school, position and the date you are requesting the leave. Requests left on voicemail or over the phone will NOT be accepted.

Licensed employees submit their request to licensedpersonalleave@jordandistrict.org

Education Support Professionals submit their request to classifiedpersonalleave@jordandistrict.org

The employee will receive an email confirmation within two working days after submitting the request. If the employee does not receive a confirmation email, then Human Resources has NOT received your request and your leave will not be approved.

School Holiday Date of Holiday Impacted Days Window
Memorial Day May 26, 2025 May 23 and 27, 2025 April 12 – April 22, 2025

Licensed Annual/Personal Leave Taken on a Critical Day 2024-2025

ESP Annual/Personal Leave Taken on a Critical Day 2024-2025

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Administrators

FROM:
Carolyn Gough Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Chris Richards-Khong, Associate Administrator of Teaching and Learning

We will be hiring instructors of asynchronous virtual courses for original credit, grade replacement credit, and credit recovery. Number of instructors will be based on fluctuating student enrollment. Only internal JSD candidates will be considered. Accepting only current licensed, contracted educators. See complete Frontline listing for more detail (JobID: 11839). Applicants must start an application profile and state they are current employees before they will be able to see the posting.

Date applications close: 04/14/2025
Date positions begin: June 2025

For general information about Jordan Credit Center, please visit our website.

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All Administrators

FROM:
Scott Thomas, Administrator of Auxiliary Services
Brandon Conti, Risk Management Coordinator

Awkward postures are deviations of body parts from their neutral position. Working in these postures is a contributing factor to musculoskeletal disorders and can cause discomfort. Please see tips and hints below.

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Assistant Principals

FROM:
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent

The May Assistant Principal meetings will be held on May 1 (8:00-11:00am) and May 6 (8:00-11:00am). All meetings will be held in-person at the JATC-S. All assistant principals and intern assistant principals are invited. A beverage service will be provided, beginning at 7:30 am at each of the meetings. As a reminder you only need to attend one of the sessions offered. Both sessions will provide the same information. Please CLICK HERE and it will take you to the Google Doc to sign up for which day you would like to attend. If you have any questions please call Nadine Page at 801-567-8182 (x88182).

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School Administrators

FROM:
Brad Sorensen, Administrator of Schools
Cody Curtis, Administrator of Schools
Odette Desmarais, Administrator of Schools
Meredith Doleac, Administrator of Schools
Becky Gerber, Administrator of Schools
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools

Please take note of the adjusted date of this meeting.

A beverage service will be provided at 7:30 a.m. Lunch will be provided.

LOCATION - PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL START WITH ALL LEVELS IN THE AUDITORIUM AT 8:00 AM

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DATE:
March 28, 2025

TO:
Principals

FROM:
Lisa Dean, Chair, Licensed Educator Advisory Committee (LEAC)

SUBJECT:
LEAC Elections and Meeting Date

The Jordan Board of Education is pleased to announce that the Licensed Educator Advisory Committee (LEAC), which is made up of licensed employees from every school in the District, will resume meeting next month. The purpose of this committee is to give the Board information and feedback regarding issues that affect licensed employees.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, from 4 - 6:00 p.m. at JATC South, 12723 South Park Avenue (2040 W.) in Riverton.

REPRESENTATIVES
Elections will need to be held as soon as possible after spring break. The Board requests that the LEAC representatives elected from your school have not previously served on the committee.

Committee members will meet once this year and at least twice next year.

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

NOMINATION

  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 candidate with the next highest votes until you have the desired number of nominees.

VOTING

  1. Prepare a ballot for each licensed employee (including administrators) with the names of the nominees.
  2. All licensed employees at elementary and special schools, Valley High School, virtual schools, JATC North and JATC South 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, virtual schools, JATC North and JATC South, the candidate with the most votes is the representative, and the next highest will serve as an alternate.
  5. For middle schools, the top two candidates with the most votes are the representatives, and the next highest will serve as an alternate.
  6. For high schools, the top three candidates with the most votes are the representatives, and the next highest will serve as an alternate.

REPORTING THE ELECTION RESULTS
Once your representative or representatives have been elected from your school, please email the names to Roxane Siggard, at roxane.siggard@jordandistrict.org.

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All Principals

FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Amanda Bollinger, Associate Administrator, Teaching & Learning

Principals,

As a school leader you are key to the success of instructional coaching, a powerful and evolving tool in education!

Please mark your calendars to attend our final Instructional Coaching Institute with your coaching team. You will be provided time to review your current coaching plan, collaborate with other schools on coaching, and begin to discuss plans for next year.

SECONDARY ICI:
DATE: Wednesday, April 16th
TIME: 8:00-11:00 a.m.
PLACE: ASB Auditorium

ELEMENTARY ICI:
DATE: Friday, April 18th
TIME: 8:30-11:30 a.m.
PLACE: ASB Auditorium

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March 25, 2025

TO:
All Principals
All Special Education Staff
School Psychologists
Elementary School Counselors

FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Melanie Dawson, Program Administrator of Behavior

SUBJECT:
Required ASPEN Training for Special Education Personnel, Elementary Counselors, and School Psychologists 2024-25

This is the final reminder of the remaining ASPEN training sessions for the 2024-2025 school year. ASPEN training is required during the 2024-2025 school year for all licensed special education teachers, SLPs, school psychologists, elementary school counselors, as well as all Education Support Professionals (ESPs) in SEB and Autism self-contained support classrooms who do not have a current Mandt certification. Staff members working in any other special education setting may choose to attend ASPEN at the discretion of their building administrator and at the cost of their school. Please see the attached memo for class and registration information.

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DATE:        
March 27, 2025

TO:  
Administrators
Survey Coordinators

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services

SUBJECT:
Navigating Panorama Survey Results

Below you will find resources to help you navigate and use Panorama Survey Results.

  1. Navigating Panorama Survey Results [Video]: 5-minute video guiding school leaders into your survey results
  2. Winter 2025 Key Insights Report [PDF]: High level insights from Winter 2025 survey results

Additionally, there are several resources in Panorama Academy that may be helpful to you. These are available anytime in Panorama.

  1. Navigating Survey Reports Video [34-minutes]
  2. Reviewing Survey Data and Taking Action
  3. PDF of all results, click "Save as PDF" from main survey page [DIstrict Elementary example]

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DATE:
March 25, 2025

TO:
Principals
Staff Currently Trained in Mandt

FROM:
Lisa Robinson, Administrator of Schools
Kim Lloyd, Director of Special Education
Melanie Dawson, Program Administrator of Behavior

SUBJECT:
Mandt Recertification Training

All staff members who were certified in Mandt in June, July, or August 2024 must attend one of the following recertification sessions to keep their certification current for the upcoming school year. Registration is on Canvas Catalog, and the classes will be capped based on trainer to learner ratio requirements. Please register ASAP for your preferred date. Please see attached memo for dates and registration information.

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DATE:
March 26, 2025

TO:  
Principals
Assistant Principals

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Matt Alvernaz, School Safety Coordinator

SUBJECT: 
School Safety Specialist List Update/Confirmation

Please review the attached spreadsheet and confirm that the information for your assigned School Safety Specialist is correct. If it is not, or there is a change, please update the information on the form. The information needs to be accurate in order for them to receive their stipends the end of April.

This needs to be completed by end of day on Wednesday, April 9th 2025. The list will be submitted as is after this date.

2024-2025 School-Based Safety Specialists

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to:

Matt Alvernaz
School Safety Coordinator
matt.alvernaz@jordandistrict.org
(801)567-8623

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TO:
All Administrators
All Administrative Assistants

FROM:
Steffany Ellsworth, Support Services Manager

We're launching a redesigned login site for the Canvas Professional Development instance!

This new design will be implemented on March 28th, 2025. All of your existing course enrollments and progress will remain unchanged.