● Reply to all school choice applications by March 15th. Review the brief instructional video to see how to approve or deny applications. Discontinued enrollment notifications must be pre-approved/reviewed by your Area Director. Parents must be notified no later than March 15th.
● SHARP Survey Principals, please select the survey window for your school. Parent permission was gathered at registration. Call Student Services with any questions.
● Mental Health Series through Parent Guidance: Schools and parents now have access to a series of regularly scheduled webinars and a monthly Ask-a-Therapist event to support student mental health and wellness. Reach out to your school counselor or Stacey Lindsay for ideas about how to promote this to your community.
I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to highlight our district’s strong commitment to afterschool programming, which is pivotal in supporting the academic, social, and emotional development of our students.
Afterschool programs offer students the chance to explore interests outside the classroom, engage in enrichment activities, and receive academic support in a safe, structured environment. These programs are vital in creating a sense of belonging, improving academic outcomes, and developing life skills that benefit students well beyond the school day.
In our district, school administrators play a key role in supervising afterschool programs. Their involvement helps create a secure and nurturing environment for students, strengthening their connections with staff outside of regular school hours. This approach elevates the quality of our afterschool programs and promotes stronger collaboration between classroom learning and extended opportunities for growth.
At the Salt Lake City School District, we are fully committed to ensuring our afterschool programs:
Remain accessible to all students, regardless of background or circumstances.
Have ample space across all sites.
Offer a variety of activities that meet the diverse interests and needs of our students.
Provide academic support and enrichment that aligns with our instructional goals.
Inspire student engagement, creativity, and personal growth.
We encourage all staff to actively support and promote these programs, whether through direct involvement, communicating with families, or helping students access these valuable opportunities. Your contributions are critical in ensuring the ongoing success and positive impact of afterschool programming throughout our district.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or suggestions on how we can further enhance our afterschool initiatives.
Thank you for your continued dedication to our students and for helping ensure the success of the Salt Lake City School District.
The Salt Lake Education Foundation would like to express appreciation for your unwavering support of SLCSD students and families. Your dedication and advocacy play a pivotal role in enriching the lives of the students at your school.
· High School Student and Family Support/Teen Centers
· Bus Passes
· DI Vouchers
· Bishops’ Storehouse Vouchers
· Food Pantries
· Volunteer Opportunities
· Emergency Gift Cards
· Foundation App
· PeachJar
· Internet (Submit a ticket to IT to request a hotspot)
· Computers (Please check with the school IT or designee to check out a computer for your students)
Reminder:
Please be sure to download the Salt Lake Education Foundation App, which provides access to partner agency information and community resources to assist students and their families.
To build on this incredible momentum, I am pleased to invite you to an in-person meeting with your student and family support designee or key stakeholder. The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen collaboration, streamline processes, and enhance achievement through the effective use of available resources.
Meeting Details:
Secondary Schools
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2024
Time: 8:00 to10:00 a.m.
Location: District Administration Building, 406 East 100 South, Room 1055
Elementary Schools
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. to12:00 p.m.
Location: District Administration Building, 406 East 100 South, Room 1055
If you have any questions or need additional information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Thank you for your continued support and dedication to our students and families.
We have enjoyed observing the progress you are making in your schools around PLCs. Many of you are establishing mission and vision statements, focusing on priority standards, or developing PLC leadership teams. We feel the conversations around the Learning by Doing readings have been productive and informative, and we have seen regular referrals to our district's tight PLC expectations.
As we are midway through the school year, our area director PLC would like to examine, calibrate, and discuss evidence of PLC implementation at all of our schools. Here is the assignment:
We've created a PLC Implementation folder embedded in your SIP folder (to reduce the number of folders). The link is below. Please upload the following artifacts to this folder:
One artifact from a PLC that is high functioning (you determine what high functioning means).
One artifact from a PLC that is on track at a basic but sufficient level (per our district's PLC phase timeline).
One artifact from a PLC that is struggling with an explanation (comment on doc or even separate Word doc) of how you are supporting this group and/or holding them accountable.
Artifacts may include agendas, minutes, placemats, common formative assessments, etc.
Please upload all three documents to your PLC Implementation folder by 5pm on February 12, 2025. Thank you! We look forward to seeing samples of your teachers' work.
Please put PLC artifacts in the "PLC Implementation" folder:
As part of our ongoing dedication to ensuring the safety and well-being of our students and school communities, we are reaching out to gauge interest from teachers and administrators in serving as School Guardians. This role directly supports the implementation of the HB 84 Utah School Safety Act, a key initiative aimed at enhancing safety protocols across our schools.
We are seeking committed volunteers to join this important effort. Your involvement would play a crucial role in fostering a secure and supportive environment for all. If you are interested in volunteering, we kindly ask you to complete the survey linked below.
Safety Survey Link
https://forms.office.com/r/QSRakuEzbx
Thank you for your continued dedication to the safety and success of our students.
Setting the Next School/Next Grade/Graduation Year Indicators During Enrollment
When enrolling students in your school, it is important to ensure that the ‘Next Year Grade’, ‘Next School Indicator’, and ‘Year of Graduation’ indicators are set. To enter these settings, follow these steps in PowerSchool:
Find the student in PowerSchool.
Select ‘Courses and Programs’ in the left side menu.
Select ‘Scheduling Settings’ from the Registration sub-menu.
Enter the settings in the highlighted field and click ‘Submit’.
Finding Students Missing These Indicators:
Use the following search on PowerSchool’s Start Page:
Next_School
Sched_NextYearGrade=
Once you find the students, go to Scheduling Settings and add the missing information.
Updating Indicators for Another School’s Request:
If another school calls requesting the Next School/Next Grade/Graduation Year Indicators to be updated for a student, please follow these steps:
Find the student in PowerSchool.
Click on ‘Student Profile’ in the left side menu.
Select ‘Addresses’ in the Student Details sub menu.
Click the Validate button under the student’s address.
Verify if the student lives in the requesting school’s boundary.
OR verify that the student has been accepted through Open Enrollment or is part of a district placed program (ELP, SPED, etc.)
If Open Enrollment is not complete, don’t change the Next School indicator.
CSTAG (Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines) is a critical component of school safety. Every school has at least one trained administrator, but we encourage everyone to get trained. If you have not yet been to CSTAG training or if it's been more than 3 years since you attended a training, please consider joining our next training session on February 21. For more information or to register, please use this link: https://forms.office.com/r/0ZxQfKMMQX
We want to ensure that you are aware of the expectations for the chilly time of the school year. Please reach out to your community and communicate to parents that students should be dressed and prepared for the cold weather with the following items: warm coats, sweaters/ hoodies, boots, hats, scarves, mittens/gloves, etc. Please ensure that these items are marked in case they are misplaced or lost. Students should come prepared to go outside, get some fresh air, and exercise outdoors daily. The exceptions to going out daily are listed below:
Morning:
Inside morning in the gym, IF there is significant rainfall or snowfall. (IF students will be getting wet outside.)
Inside morning in the gym, IF the temperature is below 20 degrees.
Students sitting on their pockets, not running around, playing sports, etc.
Inside mornings are from (List the time for your school)________ to ensure our outside-duty teachers are in the gym to help supervise.
Recess:
Teacher/Grade Level Discretion
Inside recess IF the temperature is below 20 degrees. Recess time is held inside the classroom.
Lunch Recess:
Admin/Office Discretion
Inside lunch recess, IF there is significant rainfall or snowfall (If students will be getting wet outside), recess time is held inside the classroom.
Inside lunch recess, IF the temperature is below 20 degrees, recess time is held inside the classroom.
Please reach out if you have any questions or need further information. Thank you for all that you do for the children of our district.
Good morning, School Improvement Leaders or Designees,
This email is only going out to LEA leaders on our School Improvement Listserv. Please feel free to share this information with your schools.
The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) School Improvement Team, in partnership with WestEd, is excited to invite school leaders and their LEA supervisor to apply for personalized, customized change leadership coaching. LEA's and principals are encouraged to include assistant principals, interns, instructional coaches and anyone else they deem interested to attend. The program is optional and will provide individual coaching for leaders that will enhance your leadership as well as impact the growth, proficiency and achievement of students.
The program is from March 2025 to December 2025 and will include a mutually agreed upon on site, virtual, and on demand instruction, modeling, mentoring, feedback, and support to assist the school (principal and LEA supervisor are required and may also include assistant principals, instructional coach, intern) with change leadership.
Priority will be given to Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Low Performing Student Group schools followed by CSI-Low Graduation Rate and CSI-Low Performance schools and then by schools with ATSI and TSI designation. The only schools not eligible for this program are Elevate schools.
The objectives of the program are to build leadership capacity to lead change to improve student outcomes through one or more of the following areas of leadership:
Data-Informed Teaching
Collaborative Teams with a Focus on Efficacy
High Leverage Strategies for Instruction
Fearless Assessment: Meaningful Assessments as the Heart of Feedback and Instruction
Fearless Classrooms
Effective Use of Time and Schedules
Culturally Responsive, yes! But Whose Culture are We Responding To
High Quality Student Data and Effective Analysis
The selected participants will collaboratively build and plan a personalized coaching plan with a WestEd coach.
If interested or you would like to find out more information about this opportunity, please register to attend a virtual informational kickoff meeting on January 27th (3:45 - 5:30 PM) and January 28th (9:30-11:30 AM) that will be facilitated by WestED.
Participants will need to register to attend and should plan to attend both sessions. To register, please click on this link.
