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Jordan School District
Join Michelle and Mandy on Thursdays for a Literacy Launch Q & A. Michelle and Mandy will be available through ZOOM from 3:30 - 4:30 to answer your questions, help solve your challenges, and celebrate your successes.
What do you need to make this an amazing school year? Fresh ways to engage students? Time-saving strategies? Ways to boost creativity or a growth mindset? Something else? Your colleagues at the Utah Education Network have answers based on input from educators like you.
UEN’s Digital Locker is designed to help you find just what you need quickly and easily. UEN curated dozens of free-to-you resources and arranged them by teacher need. It’s UEN’s newest resource to help you make 2021-22 your best year ever!
Sincerely,
Rich Finlinson, APR
Director, Communication
Utah Education and Telehealth Network
The Premier Lacrosse League is touring all over the country this Summer and is headed to Utah for our first round of playoffs, featuring the best lacrosse players in the world. The League provides tickets to local frontline workers and non-profit organizations in the cities we visit to thank them all for their amazing work.
Employees and their families can fill out the form below to directly request tickets. The League will cover the entire cost of the tickets and can send them directly to your families. If you have any questions please contact Aiden Krall at 914-374-1060.
Thank you for the great start to the year. Join us for an ESP open house social.
Catering by Caley's Catering Dinner Includes:
JESPA members no cost. Others $10.00 paid at the event
* If you join, at the event, no cost.*
Significant Other, Partner, Spouse $10.00 paid at the event
RSVP by August 24th, so we can order the food, at: https://tinyurl.com/ESPSocial
Check out the Aug. 2021 Be Well newsletter from EMI. Stories include:
To receive the monthly Be Well Newsletter via email and check out back issues, please visit the EMI Hope Health Newsletter page.
New teachers to Jordan District that would like a Zoom account, please fill out this short form and Digital Teaching and Learning will work with the Utah Education Network to set up your access.
For teachers who may be unsure if they activated their Zoom account last year, they can find out if they have an active account by following these directions:
If Digital Teaching and Learning can be of any help with teachers regarding their Zoom account, please contact Bonnie Muir, Digital Learning Specialist.
Each month a newsletter will be added in elementary teacher Literacy Launch Canvas courses. You will be able to get some quick and easy ways to include social studies in your classrooms. Each newsletter will include several social studies informational texts that are based on the grade level core. There will also be ideas and lesson activities that are tied to the literacy standards.
This month you will find informational texts on School (1st Grade), Helen Keller (2nd Grade), Geography (3rd Grade), Longitude and Latitude (4th Grade), Indian Peter: an Indentured Servant (5th Grade), and Sophie Scholl (6th Grade). There is also a list of picture books that you could use to talk about the 20th anniversary of 9-11 or to celebrate Constitution and Citizenship day on Sep 17th. Teachers can find a vocabulary game, a summarizing activity, and a retelling activity that are tied to a social studies picture book.
The following are new administrative assignments effective for the 2021-22 academic year:
In order to increase security to Jordan School District computer systems, password requirements for both Active Directory (the account used to log in to Windows and Mac computers) and Google accounts will be updated. You may be required to change these passwords to meet the new requirements.
If you have any questions, please contact the Information Systems help desk at 801-567-8737.
As a reminder, Information Systems will NEVER ask you for your password over the phone or via email. If you receive a phone call or email asking you to provide your login information, it is most likely a phishing scam and should be reported.
Phishing is the practice of sending emails or phone calls purporting to be a trusted source in order to trick victims into revealing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, etc. In general, you should never respond to emails or phone calls seeking this type of information. Don’t click on anything in an unsolicited email or text message. If you suspect an email is a phishing attempt look up the company’s phone number on your own (don’t use the one a potential scammer is providing), and call the company to ask if the request is legitimate. If you receive a suspected phishing email through the district’s email system report it to Information Systems. For more information visit www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/spoofing-and-phishing or www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-recognize-and-avoid-phishing-scams#protect
Check out the July 2021 Be Well newsletter from EMI. Stories include:
To receive the monthly Be Well Newsletter via email and check out back issues, please visit the EMI Hope Health Newsletter page.
Jordan School District has an immediate opening for a Human Resource Administrator supporting Licensed employees. Please refer to the details below:
General Function:
The Human Resource Administrator – Licensed is responsible for the recruitment, employment, placement, retention and licensure of licensed personnel and for the management of related personnel services. Will provide guidance and assistance to administrators and employees regarding employment, recruitment, employee discipline, training, leaves, policy interpretation or other related areas. Will assist in the development, implementation and direction of programs under the supervision of the administrator.
Qualifications:
Position Closes July 2, 2021 or until filled. Selected applicants will be interviewed.
We hope you’re enjoying your summer and getting some much needed and deserved rest. In preparation for the 2021-22 school year, we wanted to make you aware of a couple of items. As you know, Jordan School District will no longer have any year-round schools this fall. As a result, it becomes possible to align calendars at all levels to provide clarity and consistency for families and employees. In order to accomplish this, elementary schools will be adjusting from a trimester to a quarter calendar. We will continue to have parent teacher conferences twice a year at approximately the end of first and third quarter. An updated 2021-22 calendar is available on the Planning & Enrollment Calendars page. More details will be provided at the beginning of the school year.
Thank you for your dedicated work on behalf of students.
The following are new administrative assignments effective July 1, 2021:
While you may be taking a vacation this summer, the NEED for blood donations is not.
Blood Donations have fallen to their lowest point ever this summer. Donating blood takes less than 1 hour and can help save up to 3 lives. An ARUP Blood Services blood donation center is only 20 minutes away.
Your Blood Donation is needed NOW! Please schedule your appointment to donate blood by calling 801-584-5272 or logging onto arupbloodservices.org.
URS Individual Retirement Planning Sessions are now available through video conferencing or over the phone.
Meet one-on-one with a URS Retirement Planning Advisor for custom retirement guidance. The format will be identical to in-person sessions previously offered throughout the state.
We can answer questions and provide advice about your retirement benefits such as:
Go to www.urs.org/us/counseling for more information about Individual Retirement Planning and how to sign up for a session.
URS now offers a brand-new program designed to improve your financial wellness and lower your financial stress. All employees are eligible to participate. These new sessions are separate from the one-on-one retirement planning sessions that URS also currently offers.
What can you expect? In these free, confidential sessions conducted via videoconferencing, the goal is to assess and improve your overall financial wellness. URS advisors do this by reviewing and addressing three key areas:
As there are opportunities to make improvements, your advisor will give you specific recommendations. URS advisors can address other financial topics with you as well. If you have any questions about the URS financial wellness program, you can call the URS Retirement Planning Advisor line at 801-366-7470.
As part of the financial wellness program, you also now have access to a variety of financial wellness calculators. These calculators are great tools for doing “what if” scenarios on different topics, such as refinancing a mortgage, calculating a car payment, etc. The calculators can be accessed at fwcalculators.urs.org.
How can you sign up for a personal financial wellness appointment? URS provides this service at no cost to you. You register online through your myURS account at www.urs.org. Once you are logged in, click on the Education tab, and then click on Individual Financial Wellness Sessions. You can then choose a date and time that is convenient for you via a videoconference. These sessions typically last one hour.
Per state statue all school district employees are to be trained annually concerning Child Sex Abuse Prevention or Human Trafficking Prevention. This year (2021-22) Child Sex Abuse training will be replacing the Human Trafficking Prevention training conducted last year in Crucial Concerns and Policies within Skyward Employee Access.
At the end of the training there will be a Certificate of Completion you may print or screenshot for your records.
The Board of Education has reached negotiated agreements with JESPA. Details of the agreements can be found below:
The Board of Education has reached negotiated agreements with JEA. Details of the agreements can be found below: