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Featuring Rick Wormeli
Salt Lake City UT
January 31-Febrary 1, 2019
See attached information.
Featuring Rick Wormeli
Salt Lake City UT
January 31-Febrary 1, 2019
See attached information.
DATE:
Thursday, November 1, 2018
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Research Project
The Research Review Committee has reviewed a research project in which your school has been asked to participate.
Project Title: Teachers’ Perceptions on Access to General Education and Functional Skills Curricula to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Applicant: Olivia Coleman, University of Utah
The project has been approved by the District Research Review Committee. The applicant has been directed to contact you to discuss the extent of the project and to obtain your permission to conduct the study at your school. Participation in the study is at your discretion. If you have questions or concerns relating to participation, please contact Ben Jameson at 801-567-8243.
The researcher will contact principals asking them to send out an email recruiting special education teachers and general education team leads/department chairs to participate in the study.
Thank you for your assistance.
The District will be conducting a software upgrade to Sprocket on November 8, 2018 at 1 p.m. The process will take 2-4 hours and Sprocket will be unavailable during this time. If you have any questions please contact Sandi Abplanalp at 801-567-8616.
Hosted by Student Intervention Services
October 16, 2018
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Jordan School District Auxiliary Service Building
Presentation Room
7905 South Redwood Road
West Jordan
All Administrators Invited
(Invite any staff you feel would benefit) - See flyer below
DATE:
September 11, 2018
TO:
All Principals
FROM:
Administrators of Schools
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services
SUBJECT:
14th Day Enrollment vs. the Estimate
All Schools, Traditional and YRE
Please see attached memo.
URS Retirement Planning Advisors offer free, one-on-one, retirement planning sessions. Call 801-366-7720 or visit www.urs.org to schedule your session.
Skyward has finally sent a release with the approve and reroute for check requests! As a result we wanted to send out some notification and instructions on what you will see and what you will be allowed to do now. Attached is a one page guide showing screenshots of the new reroute capability and some explanation of how it works.
We are trying to update and improve our processes and believe this will be a big benefit to everyone involved in the check disbursement process. If you have any questions about this please let us know.
Principals:
As you approve your check requests you will now see the third option to approve and reroute a check to another department. So, as you review your check requests please take note of the budget you are charging or notes your admin assistant may have put on the request as these will provide direction of where to reroute requests.
Admin Assistants:
This is great news as you will no longer have to send in paper NPOs for payments out of the Foundation, Special Ed, Title I, etc. We would ask that you work with your principal in some way (note in request, verbal reminder, etc.) to let them know where a given request should be routed to.
DO Departments:
This will change how you see payment requests coming from the elementary schools. Please work with your different department heads to make them aware that checks will now be coming to them through Skyward. As shown in the directions they should see the yellow exclamation icon notifying them of tasks needing to be completed. They will need to check this to review and approve any requests being charged to their respective areas.
Please see the current forms below.
Please see revised schedule below.
The following are new administrative assignments:
Please see attached directory.
DATE:
August 13, 2018
TO:
District Administration
FROM:
Administrators of Schools
Dr. Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Planning and Student Services
SUBJECT:
1st Day Enrollment vs. the Estimate
Year-round Schools, Tracks A, B, C & D (August 13, 2018 count)
Please see attached memo.
DATE:
August 16, 2018
TO:
All Principals, Directors and Supervisors
FROM:
Anthony Godfrey, Associate Superintendent
June LeMaster, Administrator of Human Resources
Brent Burge, Human Resource Administrator-Classified
SUBJECT:
Hours Increase to Select Part-Time Classified Positions
With the increasing difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified part-time classified assistants, assistants working in designated positions are now allowed to work up to 25 hours/week, with principal/director approval. School funds must be used to pay the additional hours worked.
Positions Eligible for 25 Hours/week
Funding
Restrictions
Examples
Implementation
If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at 801-567-8150.
Cc: Cabinet
Utah Retirement Systems will be available for one-on-one retirement planning sessions at the Jordan School District Main Office on Friday, September 5, 2018. Check in at the front desk. See the instructions below to register for an appointment. Counseling sessions are available at other locations that are also listed on the URS website.
DATE:
July 9, 2018
TO:
Secondary School Principals
Directors
FROM:
John Larsen, Business Administrator
June LeMaster, Administrator, Human Resources
Brent Burge, HR Administrator, Classified
SUBJECT:
Shift Differential
As part of JESPA negotiations for the 2018-2019 contract year, the shift differential was increased effective July 1, 2018 as follows:
Swing Shift – The employee’s shift must begin between 12:00 p.m. (noon) and 10:00 p.m. The employee must work a full eight hours. The additional rate of pay is $0.50 per hour.
Graveyard Shift – The employee’s shift must begin between 10:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. The employee must work a full eight hours. The additional rate of pay is $1.00 per hour.
Only classified, benefit-eligible employees are eligible for shift differential. Please follow the current process to submit for shift differential pay.
CTE has purchased licenses for the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite through an agreement between the State and Adobe. 2018-19 is year 3 of the agreement.
See flyer below for details on how to request licenses.
Utah Retirement Systems will be available for one-on-one retirement planning sessions at the Jordan School District Auxiliary Services Building in Conference Room 105 on Thursday, August 16, 2018. See the instructions below to register for an appointment. Counseling sessions are available at other locations that are also listed on the URS website.
Dear Licensed and Classified Employees,
In accordance with DP326 NEG and DP324 NEG, participation in the Employee-Funded Sick Leave Bank requires an employee to annually donate one day of accumulated sick leave into the Sick Leave Bank. The Employee-Funded Sick Leave Bank is not intended to be used for in-and-out absences, elective medical procedures or other medical care that could be scheduled during non-contract time.
Employees wishing to opt out of participation in the Employee-Funded Sick Leave Bank must log in to their Employee Access and complete the opt out process no later than September 1st. This opt out request must be submitted annually.
*First year classified and all hourly employees are not eligible for sick bank. Therefore, a sick bank day will not be deducted (if applicable). Please be aware that policies and eligibility requirements for Licensed (DP324 NEG) and Classified (DP326 NEG) employees are different. These and other District policies are available for review at http://policymanual.jordandistrict.org/.
Please see updated attachment (changes highlighted in red) with the administrative assistant assignments.
Kim Lloyd, Special Education Director in Box Elder School District, has been appointed Special Education Director in Jordan School District effective July 1, 2018.
McKinley Withers, School Counselor at Valley High School, has been appointed Health and Wellness Specialist in Jordan School District effective July 1, 2018.
Congratulations!