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DATE:    
May 19, 2021

TO:   
Elementary Principals

FROM: 
Michael Anderson, Associate Superintendent
Travis Hamblin, Director of Student Services
Sharon Jensen, Consultant Student Support Services
Michelle Reyes, Prevention Specialist

SUBJECT:
Attendance Brochure for Back to School Night

Principals,

Please remember that Back to School Night is the best time to stress the importance of regular attendance to school and the benefits for learning. Please print some of the enclosed brochures and have them visible around the school during your Back to School Night. The brochures are available in both English and Spanish.

Research shows that Back to School Night is often the only point of contact for new families and parents who may not come to the school at any other time. Studies also show that when principals talk about attendance and the link to learning in the Back to School Night meetings it makes a difference in the communities’ perception of the importance of attendance.

We hope that your Back to School Night is wonderful and very well attended.

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DATE: 
August 9, 2022

TO:  
Assistant Principals
Principals (info only)
Teaching & Learning Consultants

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

SUBJECT:   
Safe School Hearing Calendar/Assignments
Please add on your calendar now!

To broaden everyone’s experience, most assistant principals will be a part of the Safe Schools Committee this year. Please add this date to your calendar as a top priority. If your name is not listed, you will be one of the first contacts in case of an emergency and a substitute committee member is needed. PLEASE DO NOT FIND YOUR OWN SUBSITUTE. The committee is balanced by level and gender each week. If an emergency comes up the week of your assignment, please email janie.hyde@jordandistrict.org

The Safe School Committee meets on Wednesdays from 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM at the main district office in conference room 123 back by the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance folks. Bring your own lunch or there is an hour break built in to buy lunch at the many offerings in Jordan Landing.

We are grateful to have your experience, wisdom and skill set to help with this important decision-making committee.

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Please send all updates and information for the instructional coaching positions in your school to Michelle Williams in the JSD Teaching and Learning Department. Please include names, email, and details about their coaching FTE amounts. We need your prompt response if you have not already communicated your personnel updates. Michelle may be contacted at 801-567-8365 or michelle.williams@jordandistrict.org

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Licensed and Education Support Professionals,

Welcome to the 2022-2023 contract year! An annual reminder, 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 annual 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 annually complete the appropriate online form in Employee Access no later than September 1st for current employees and October 1st for first-year employees, including administrators. This opt out request must be submitted annually.

*First year Education Support Professionals and 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 Education Support Professionals (DP326 NEG) employees are different. These and other District policies are available for review at https://policy.jordandistrict.org/.

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Special Education Resource and Self-Contained Team Leaders will soon receive a SCRAM report via Move-It of all students who should be receiving services through your school’s special education program(s) at the start of the 2022-23 school year. All team members and service providers need to verify each student on this list as either correct, changed, exited/moved, and/or incomplete. Since only one copy is being sent per “team” (i.e., Resource and Cluster), it is important that resource teams, cluster teams, SLPs, Guidance Specialists and other itinerant providers work together to check and complete the requested information.

Please have your SCRAM Reports and corrected SCRAM returned to the District Office by
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

If you have questions, please contact the Teacher Specialist assigned to your school or Jen Warkentine at (801) 567-8207. Thank you for your conscientious efforts to complete this critical information. Please remember that special education funding is contingent upon the accuracy of this data.

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Secondary Principals:

The Special Education Department is offering professional development to support co-teaching instruction.

Interested schools will need to submit the attached application no later than September 2, 2022 to Tammy Rajczyk in the Special Education Department. The co-teaching cohort will be capped at 13 teams/23 individuals. A signature on the completed application indicates that the principal is committed to supporting the teacher's commitment in the co-teaching PD described in the attached documents.

For questions, please contact:

Renee Sass, M.Ed.
Curriculum & Instructional Specialist
Special Education
Jordan School District
(801)567-8295

 

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Attached are the special education budget allocations for Resource, Self-Contained Teachers and Speech-Language Pathologists for the 2022-23 school year. (Cluster Leaders do not receive a Special Education budget.) Remember that special education monies must be spent in ways that provide the most benefit to special education students with the goal to improve student achievement and performance. It will be up to you, your team, and your school principal/financial secretary to keep track of how much of your budget you have spent individually.

Please note equipment purchases, electronic games and/or any materials that are not instructional in nature must be pre-approved from the Special Education Department. Equipment purchases that are not pre-approved will not be reimbursed. Requests must include the approval from your teacher specialist.

When submitting requisitions, follow Skyward procedures and guidelines. Requisitions for the 2022-23 school year can be submitted anytime between July 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023. The final deadline for all purchasing requests, reimbursement requests, E-checks and P-Card purchases is March 1, 2023. This is a different deadline than we have previously had and will not be extended.

If you have questions regarding your Special Education budget, please call Amanda Hamblin at (801) 567-8177 or the Teacher Specialist assigned to your school.

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The Human Resource Department is pleased to announce the addition of the following new positions.

  • Brittany Bauer, Licensing Specialist appointed Recruiting, Licensing, & Hiring Specialist. Brittany has a Masters Degree in Management & Leadership from Western Governors University.
  • Jane Olsen, Data Analyst appointed Recruiting, Licensing, & Hiring Specialist. Jane has a degree in Science in Human Resources from Utah State University.

School/District administrators and administrative assistants are directed to the following HR reference guide when requesting HR assistance.

Please contact Brittany Bauer and Melinda McAnally for secondary questions and Jane Olsen and Stacy Krahenbuhl for elementary questions regarding all recruitment, hiring and placement of new licensed, ESP, and miscellaneous candidates. In addition, they will assist with the following HR related tasks:

  • Recruitment
  • Job Postings
  • Frontline Support
  • Onboarding – Hiring Approvals & Initial Placements
  • Licensing
  • New Teacher Induction
  • CANVAS HR Trainings
  • Social Media
  • Substitutes

Brittany Bauer
brittany.bauer@jordandistrict.org
801-567-8214

Melinda McAnally
melinda.mcanally@jordandistrict.org 
801-567-8227

Jane Olsen
jane.olsen@jordandistrict.org
801-567-8217

Stacy Krahenbuhl
stacy.krahenbuhl@jordandistrict.org
801-567-8221

Contact Brent Burge and June LeMaster for all current Licensed, ESP, and miscellaneous employees:

  • ADA Requests
  • Administrator Recruiting & Hiring
  • Compliance
  • Employee Discipline
  • Investigations
  • Interpretation of District Policies
  • Student Teachers
  • Student Interns
  • Public Relations
  • Reports
  • Reduction in Staff / Reduction in Force

Brent Burge
Brent.burge@jordandistrict.org
801-567-8224

June LeMaster
June.lemaster@jordandistrict.org
801-567-8222

The two current HR administrative vacancies and the positions currently held by Brittany and Jane will not be filled at this time.

 

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Reminder: We're getting close to the deadline (May 1, 2023) for the timesheets to be turned in. Your teachers would need to have already submitted their "Educator-Directed Paid Professional Hours PLAN" by the first day of school in order to be eligible for this payment. Please make sure to total the hours listed on the timesheet and put this number on the Google Sheet. If you have questions please reach out to Nadine Page at x88182 or nadine.page@jordandistrict.org.

Please see attached documents for how to complete the necessary steps to be paid for up to 32 hours of work from funding allocated by HB396.

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Attached are all forms and documents distributed during the level meetings at the annual Administrative Leadership Conference held August 4, 2022

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Attached are all forms and documents distributed during the level meetings at the annual Administrative Leadership Conference held August 2, 2022

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The September Assistant Principal meetings will be held on September 8 (8:00-11:00am) and September 13 (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 per month. 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). Thank you!

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Please refer to the attached documents for information to help you prepare for next week's event. Direct any questions to Becky Gerber at becky.gerber@jordandistrict.org.
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This information was originally sent out in March 10, 2022 JAM. Please note the following budget code updates for 2022-2023 school year below.

The following positions will be available for schools for the 2022-2023 school year only using ESSER III funds.

  • High Schools 1.0 FTE for a tracker
  • Middle Schools 0.25 FTE for a tracker
  • Elementary Schools 25-hour assistant to support intervention

Any additional trackers or aides that have previously been paid for using CARES / ESSER funds will be the responsibility of the school for the 2022-2023 school year. 

Schools will need to update budget codes for personnel who will be covered through ESSER III funds in 2022-2023. Please complete a New Hire/Change Form and code ESSER III Budget #7225 starting July 1, 2022.  

The following Budget Codes will be discontinued after July 1, 2022:

10 E xxx 7211 xxxx xxx and 10 E xxx 7215 xxxx xxx

Schools will need to update budget codes for any personnel who were paid through these budgets.

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Due to supplier shortages and global supply chain issues, the Central Warehouse is running very low on Hammermill DP Colored Copy Paper and Springhill Digital Vellum Bristol Color Cover paper. The paper mills that produce Hammermill and Springhill have temporarily stopped taking orders from distributors that sell to the District. The Purchasing Department is currently working on sourcing other brands of DP Colored Copy Paper and Digital Vellum Bristol Color Cover paper that will fill the demand and needs of the District. Please be patient with us while we are doing all we can to make sure schools can order select colors and types of paper. If the paper you need is not currently available in the warehouse, you may look to purchase through Amazon, Office Depot, or Staples under the state contract using your pcard.

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Elementary Principals:

Through the 2018-19 negotiations process, the Board allocated funds to pay each elementary teacher $400 for parking lot duty each year. Following are additional details and clarification for the implementation of this payment.

  • Although parking lot duty requirements will vary from school to school, the payment is the same districtwide.
  • Administrators are encouraged to reduce parking lot duty for teachers as much as possible while still maintaining necessary coverage.
  • All full-time K-6 licensed educators districtwide who are responsible for parking lot duty are eligible for the $400 stipend. Half-time educators are eligible for a $200 stipend.
  • All elementary school Special Education cluster teachers and Pre-school teachers are eligible for an $800 stipend.
  • Licensed educators (psychologists, BTS teachers, etc.) who have not been assigned parking lot duty in the past may choose to participate and be paid a stipend but should not be required to do so.
  • Administrators and classified staff are not eligible for a stipend.
  • The stipend will be paid out on September paychecks.
  • Teachers are required to complete parking lot duty unless they coordinate with the principal to give their assignment and stipend to another willing teacher.
  • Teachers can take on as many parking lot duty assignments (and stipends) from other teachers as will fit in the calendar.
  • Teachers can only give up their parking lot duty assignment and stipend or accept an additional assignment and stipend in coordination with the principal.
  • Teachers can only give up or accept an entire assignment and an entire stipend.
  • Principals should adjust the parking lot duty schedule as necessary to allow as many teachers to take on as many extra assignments as needed.
  • Special Education cluster teachers and Pre-school teachers cannot give up their parking lot duty assignment.
  • Stipends for parking lot duty are included in retirement pay calculations.

In order to streamline payment, please ask your administrative assistant to complete the attached Excel workbook. Please scan the completed submission sheet and send with your regular September payroll to the Payroll Department by September 2, 2022 so that teachers can be paid the stipend on their September 25th check. Please list each educator in your building and beside each name indicate the dollar amount ($0, $200, $400 or increments of $400, or $800) the teacher should be paid.

The budget code for Parking Lot Stipends is 10 E XXX 0050 1024 131

Please contact your Administrator of Schools with any questions.

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