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“Pathways to Engagement”, 2022 Multicultural Youth Leadership Day for Utah’s 10th-12th grade students and educators! The Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs (MCA) will be hosting the experience virtually on Tuesday, March 22nd and Thursday, March 31st from 9 AM to 11 AM. The program will be the same on both days to accommodate more school schedules.

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We invite parents who are newcomers (refugee, immigrant, or asylee) to our school district to attend this month’s parent orientation to get information on how they can best help their child in school. Please have parents fill out this RSVP form. If you need a flyer translated into another language, please contact michelle.love-day@jordandistrict.org.

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Principals:

To prepare for the Teacher Transfer Fair, please complete the linked Google Form listing known openings for the 22-23 school year. Current licensed employees will be able to view this list of teacher transfer opportunities prior to the Teacher Transfer Fair. Licensed employees may submit a transfer request form in Employee Access. Principals will receive a weekly report from IT of those employees who have submitted a transfer request for their location. On March 1st, all remaining openings must be posted in Frontline. JSD licensed employees must then apply in Frontline to be considered for a transfer.

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Please note that Special Education purchase orders/requisitions for the 2021-22 school year must be received by Tuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 5:00 p.m. See the attached memo for details.

Please remember the following:

  • Budgets are not carried over from one year to the next.
  • Remember to deduct any previously submitted amounts from your Special Education budget (so that you know your balance) before submitting new orders. This includes reimbursements submitted through your school. No orders will be processed that exceed your budgeted allocation.
  • Please check with your school secretary to make sure all Special Education reimbursements have been submitted to the Special Education Department by the March 1st deadline. We will soon be providing each school secretary with a sheet of currently recorded purchase/reimbursement totals for the special education department at your school up through January 31, 2022.
  • When ordering supplies, follow Skyward procedures.
  • Be sure to follow the ordering guidelines outlined in the attached budget information page, as you close out your current year budgets.
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JSD Triennial Wellness Policy Assessment

Administrators, please fill out this triennial wellness survey that is required by USBE and Federal Mandate. The survey is in regards to Jordan School District’s Wellness Policy and its implementation throughout the district. For additional information, please refer to https://policy.jordandistrict.org/?s=AA446. JSD policy AA446 - Wellness Through Nutrition and Fitness. Online survey responses are due by February 28th, 2022.

Click Here: Wellness Survey Form

 

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DATE:  
Thursday, February 3, 2022

TO: 
All School Administrators

FROM:  
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT: 
2021-22 Stakeholder Input Survey Results

51,139 students, parents and educators participated in the 2021-22 Stakeholder Input Survey, which was administered in November 2021.

The Stakeholder Input Survey results have been released via Tableau accounts for school principals. Principals may request that their assistant principals have access to the results in Tableau by contacting Ben Jameson in Evaluation, Research & Accountability. PDF reports containing individual educator effectiveness ratings will also be distributed to principals in the coming days. Those reports will subsequently need to be distributed to educators. More information about these pdf reports will be forthcoming.

Principals may access school and district survey results by clicking here or through their Tableau accounts: Explore > Surveys > Stakeholder Input Survey > 2021-22 Stakeholder Input Survey

In addition to district results, each school will have the following dashboards that contain their school’s survey results:

  • [School Name] Faculty Stakeholder Input Survey
  • [School Name] Parent Stakeholder Input Survey
  • [School Name] K-3 Student Stakeholder Input Survey and [School Name] 4-6 Student Stakeholder Survey for elementary schools
  • [School Name] 7-12 Student Stakeholder Input Survey for secondary schools
  • [School Name] Stakeholder Input Survey Overall Educator Effectiveness Scores

Please contact Ben Jameson in Evaluation, Research & Accountability with questions.

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DATE:  
Thursday, February 3, 2022

TO: 
All School Administrators

FROM:  
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching & Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability

SUBJECT:  
2022 Educator Engagement Survey Administration

USBE board rule R277-325 requires that school districts administer the Educator Engagement Survey every other year opposite the USBE School Climate Survey (last administered in the spring of 2020-21).

The survey will be distributed by Evaluation, Research & Accountability to all licensed school-based educators (with the exception of administrators) in elementary, middle and high schools. The survey opens Monday, February 14th and closes Sunday, March 13th. USBE anticipates that the survey will take educators about 30 minutes to complete. USBE hopes to gather information about educator’s engagement in education and their perspectives related to the quality of their job experiences. The survey is confidential and the results will be reported in the aggregate.

School administrators don’t need to do anything to distribute the survey, but they are encouraged to notify their faculty that the survey is coming.

Survey results will be published for each school in Tableau after the survey closes.

If you would like to preview the survey questions, you may do so here or you may view the pdf copy attached with this JAM memo.

Please contact Ben Jameson in Evaluation, Research & Accountability with questions.

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Registration for the Literacy Promise Conference is now available! This is a conference you will not want to miss! There is an amazing line-up of presenters this year including Linda Ferrell, Nancy Frey, David Kilpatrick, and Kelly Gallagher just to name a few. The conference will be held March 23-25, 2022 at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah. The Teaching & Learning department will pay the registration fee for an administrator and up to four other staff members from each school. Noreen Samowitz will complete the registration. Please contact her by March 13th with the list of attendees from your school. Schools are responsible to secure and fund their own substitutes for this event. More information can be found here.

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The following are new administrative assignments:

  • New Assignments effective February 1, 2022:
    • Shana Mondragon, assistant principal at Mountain Shadows Elementary and Oakcrest Elementary transferred full-time to Oquirrh Elementary, replacing Jerri Crawford.
    • Veronica Holyoke, administrative intern at Sunset Ridge Middle transferred to Mountain Shadows Elementary and Oakcrest Elementary, replacing Shana Mondragon.
    • Elizabeth Pollock, assistant principal at Rosamond Elementary and Ridge View Elementary, transferred full-time to Ridge View Elementary.
    • Allyson Stovall, assistant principal at Southland Elementary transferred to Rosamond Elementary and Southland Elementary.
  • New Assignments effective July 1, 2022:
    • Sally Wilde, administrative intern, appointed assistant principal at a location TBD.
    • April Thompson, administrative intern, appointed assistant principal at a location TBD.
    • Veronica Holyoke, administrative intern, appointed assistant principal at a location TBD.
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Jordan School District (JSD) is committed to finding, hiring and retaining the very best employees possible. We are looking for bus drivers, custodians, nutrition service workers and certain facilities positions! Historically, some of our top talent is found through referrals from people who already work in the JSD. JSD currently has several positions that need to be filled. We would like to encourage JSD employees to share information about employment opportunities and at the same time reward employees for doing so.

The Employee Referral Program is one in which we hope all district employees will participate. The goal of this program is to help hire staff in “hard to fill” ESP positions effective February 1, 2022.

The following positions are eligible to receive a referral bonus:

Assistant Custodian Full Time                           Contract Bus Driver
Facility Carpenter                                                 Contract Bus Attendant
Facility HVAC Technician                                    6 Hour Nutrition Worker
Facility Painter

For information about this program, please visit the following website.

Employee Referral Bonus Website

 

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Please see the attached flyers for registration and other information for the Elementary Math Tournament at Daybreak. Registration is now due by Friday, February 25. Please contact Rebecca Smith (88368) with any questions you may have. We look forward to seeing you and your students at the tournament!

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Jordan School District is currently participating in a trial for Screencastify Pro, a screen recording software for faculty and students. You can sign in to Screencastify by going to screencastify.com and using your Google login and password for the district. This trial will allow teachers and students unlimited time for screen recordings, the ability to save finished videos to Google Drive, and even the option to embed comprehension questions within the videos! On Friday, the Screencastify extension will be made available in both teacher and student Chrome browsers. This is the easiest way to access Screencastify and start using this terrific program. Below I’ve shared a few links to help you get started. Please contact Jared Covili, Consultant for Digital Teaching and Learning, at jared.covili@jordandistrict.org with questions.

Using Screencastify Extension in Chrome
https://learn.screencastify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049546434-Install-the-Record-extension

Starting a recording
https://learn.screencastify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049302954-How-to-make-your-first-recording

Save your edited project directly to Google Drive
https://learn.screencastify.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050323993-Save-a-recording-to-your-Google-Drive

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Dear JSD Educators,

The District will open a new elementary school in Herriman beginning in August, 2022. Applications for the Team Lead positions are now being accepted. For information regarding positions available in Phase A, a position advertising schedule, position descriptions and instructions on how to apply, visit the JSD Job Postings at the New School page: Job Postings at the New School Opening August of 2022 

Additional compensated work for certain positions may be required prior to the beginning of the contract year.

JSD educators interested in applying for current or future positions must submit an application​using Frontline Recruiting and Hiring. When searching for open positions, please ensure you are searching in the “Internal Applicants” section. Please see the attached tutorial for application instructions. External applications for licensed positions will be accepted after JSD educators have been give first consideration.

For assistance in submitting an application in Frontline, please contact the Human Resources at 801-567-8224. For questions regarding positions at the new school, please contact Principal Ronna Hoffman at ronna.hoffman@jordandistrict.org.

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We want to invite all kindergarten teachers to join us for a very special Kindergarten Night Out. McKinley Withers will be joining us to share some great tips and tricks to manage student behavior in the kindergarten classroom. As a special bonus, teachers will be paid to attend this session. Teachers who would like to attend should sign up on JPLS. This session will be held on February 9, from 4:15-5:15 in the ASB Auditorium.

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Teachers in grades K-3 are required to complete all training modules for Really Great Reading before the end of the school year. Teacher training links are active for 1 year from the date of the first log in. The first two modules should have been completed prior to the start of the school year. Teachers were paid the full stipend once these two modules were completed, however the expectation was that they would continue to complete the remaining modules throughout the year. The remaining modules were designed to become available as they were needed in the curriculum. This requirement was stated in Literacy Launch and in a JEM on August 25th. Please remind all teachers in grades K-3 to check their training status and complete all modules before their links expire.

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Updated information from USBE: 

LETRS 3rd Edition (Teacher Training)
If you still have participants that need to enroll in unit 1, there is still plenty of room and dates available for enrollment. Below are direct links to units 1-4, please share with any participants that may still need to enroll for these unit trainings. 

LETRS, UNIT 1 (General Registration) – Course #60068 (NO ADDITIONAL SECTIONS WILL BE ADDED FOR THIS UNIT) 

*All sections with low enrollment are subject to cancellation due to low enrollment, if a section is flagged, participants currently enrolled will be notified through MIDAS and will be encouraged to enroll on a different section and date. 

LETRS, UNIT 2 (General Registration) – Course #60077
LETRS, UNIT 3 (General Registration) – Course #60078
LETRS, UNIT 4 (General Registration) – Course #60079

*Units 5-8 (vol.2) are coming soon, we will share these courses and links once we have them ready for General registration enrollment in MIDAS.

For JSD teachers: When teachers have completed BOTH the online coursework and the online class, then they can complete this survey Unit Course Completion Form to receive their $500 in their next paycheck.
Questions? Call Bev Griffith at 801-567-8466 or email beverly.griffith@jordandistrict.org.

LETRS for Admin:
I’m also excited to announce that a few additional sections were added to the LETRS for Admin, part 1, course (#60389). Any administrative participants that would like to enroll for part 1 now can do so by following the links below:

LETRS for Amin, part 1 (Admin Overview) – Course #60389
LETRS for Amin, part 2 (Principal Primer) – Course #60446

*Remember that LETRS for Admin is a two-part course and you will need to enroll and attend both.

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