Administrators/Directors/Principals:
Please share this post with your building custodian(s). Thank you!
Administrators/Directors/Principals:
Please share this post with your building custodian(s). Thank you!
Administrators, Special Education teachers, those that work with building access, those that deal with 504's, and other compliance issues please take special note of this document.
The document below is from the Officer for Civil Rights and is regarding K-12 public schools in relation to meeting the needs of all students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please see the attached document for information on who should attend this training.
For the previously shared JAM, regarding this training, click HERE.
The Board of Education has approved $4 million for the Educator Grant program. Please make your faculty aware that all licensed educators can now apply for pandemic and innovative work grants.
As part of the pandemic work grant application, Principals will need to verify the pandemic work completed in the Spring of 2020, so we want you to be aware of this process:
1) The individual applies for a Pandemic Work grant.
2) They must request Principal Confirmation of work completed.
3) This form in the grant application will automatically send you an email to verify their work. You will be able to click on a link to a description of the work and then click to confirm that the work was completed within the Pandemic work period.
The deadline for Principal Confirmation is October 30, 2020. We ask that you complete these quickly, as applicants will not receive a pandemic award if there is no verification by this date.
4) If you are not the Principal that was working with this individual during the Spring of 2020, please forward this Principal Confirmation email to the correct Principal.
For more information please see the memo below.
Click on the links below to access handouts, from our Wellness Team, that can be given to students as they are quarantined.
Click HERE to access the newsletter.
In order to ensure that your District mail is properly delivered, please include the following on all items:
Thanks! This will help ensure that all of your items are delivered quickly to the proper location.
This course will be a review of the Jordan School District Incident Command System Action Plans and roles for responding to a critical incident. The course is available for school/location administration and anyone else that has a key response position, as to be determined by the administrator. It is recommended that new administrators attend.
The course is being repeated on 4 different dates, and will be led by JSD Emergency Operations Manager Lance Everill.
Auxiliary Services Building, Auditorium – Entrance A
Register on JPLS
50-person capacity for each class
Masks required
Social distancing will be observed
See document below.
Please see document below for important dates and reminders.
DATE:
September 28, 2020
TO:
Employees in the District Office, Auxiliary Services Building, and Transportation Facilities
FROM:
John Larsen, Business Administrator
Scott Thomas, Administrator of Auxiliary Services
Shelley Nordick, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
SUBJECT:
Halloween Activities
Some departments and buildings have had a tradition of employees bringing their children and grandchildren into the building on Halloween for trick-or-treating. This activity has many merits and benefits to our groups and teams. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to maintain safety for all employees and their family members, we will not be having these types of activities this year.
We know this may be a disappointment to many who look forward to this each year. However, many employees and/or those they go home to each evening have health concerns that make such activities unwise during a pandemic.
If you have questions or concerns regarding the cancellation of these Halloween activities, please communicate them through your supervisor to their Cabinet level supervisor.
As a general reminder:
Please use the following links to access the State COVID-19 Manual in a multitude of languages, along with other flyers and information sheets produced the the State Health Department.
ENGLISH: https://jam.jordandistrict.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/COVID-19-School-Manual-FINAL.pdf
OTHER LANGUAGE RESOURCES for COVID-19 are available here. The COVID-19 Manual is translated into Arabic, Farsi, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Thai, and Vietnamese. Portuguese is coming soon. This site also has many of the other COVID flyers and information sheets produced by the State Health Department: https://coronavirus.utah.gov/multilingual-resources/
A revised agenda for the optional training sessions for office and administrative staff of schools and District departments is attached. The October 1st and 15th sessions will be held in the morning and the October 5th session in the afternoon (same information presented at each session). If you would like to participate in one of the sessions, please send an email to Jeri Clayton at jeri.clayton@jordandistrict.org and let her know which date you would like to sign-up to attend. Attendees of each session will receive an email the day prior to the training with instructions for connecting to the Zoom meeting.
The District ordered and has now received 1,000 Chromebooks for the purpose loaning these Chromebooks out to schools for short-term needs. Primarily the purpose of the short-term loan of the Chromebooks is for students in quarantine to use when the school does not have sufficient numbers for quarantined student use.
If your school has such a need for a temporary short-term use of additional Chromebooks, please call Mark Sowa at 801.567.8392 (x88392) to make arrangements. With only 1,000 Chromebooks to loan out, it is imperative that every school return the loaned Chromebooks as soon as possible with the intent of not being out longer than one month so we can assist other schools experiencing temporary increases in demand due to quarantines. Any device not returned will need to be reimbursed to the loaner program.
You are invited to share the following parent outreach information with your school community as you see fit.
Our District has access to quality training covering the following topics:
Any staff member can sign up who is interested and will be able to earn credit for attending. We invite you to share the registration link and flyer with individuals in your school who could benefit from this training.
Please see attached information regarding online lessons that get brains thinking!
For those who will be having a "Say Book to the Flu" event this year, please see the attached flyer. Note that the flyer provides an active link allowing the recipient to view current Say Boo schedules by District. Thank you for your patience as we have adapted our process from individual District flyers in an attempt to respond to changing needs within your buildings.
The Instructional Coaching Institute is intended to create a united vision and purpose in Jordan School District in order to better support teachers. Meetings are held weekly at the ASB from 11:00-1:30 with the exception of a few that will be held virtually due to limited space availability. All district and school instructional leaders are considered part of the Instructional Coaching Institute and attend meetings. This includes:
This weekly communication is intended to inform you about topics and discussions that will be covered in the weekly meetings as well as on updates from Teaching and Learning. If you would like to attend and receive the information alongside your coach(es) you are welcome to do so or can join virtually. Parts of the meetings will be recorded and available after the meeting as well. Links to join virtually or to watch the recordings can be found inside the link below.
Helpful Links
The virtual Utah Science Teacher Association (UtSTA) conference starts in October. This is a great opportunity for teachers to become familiar with and expand their understanding of the new SEEd standards. Funding will need to be provided through individual school however a grant opportunity is available. You can easily apply for a grant to attend this conference.
Please see flyer below for information on how to apply for a grant and registration information.