Category: Board Meeting Summaries

Board Summary, Feb. 1 2022

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items Operational Capacity Plan In keeping with changes to Utah law and local coronavirus surveillance, Canyons District has created step-by-step instructions for how and when pandemic-related safety or operational challenges would warrant petitioning state leaders to temporarily move […]

Board Summary, Jan. 18, 2022

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items   COVID-19 Update  To the end of slowing spread of COVID-19 while also maintaining an in-person learning schedule, all Canyons District schools, regardless of their positive case count, will operate in the District’s already-established Tier III response […]

Board Summary, Jan. 11 2022

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items The Canyons Board of Education approved a change in the calendar to accommodate extra remote-learning days. This is in response to the sudden spike in positive COVID-19 cases, which has led to increased student absenteeism and major […]

Board Summary, Jan. 4, 2022

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items   Strategic Plan Canyons Superintendent Dr. Rick Robins said a draft of a strategic plan has been sent to the Board of Education for its review and evaluation. The growth-blueprint proposal, which has been in development since […]

Board Meeting Summary, Dec. 14, 2021

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items Accreditation Canyons District has passed a districtwide accreditation — a process that verifies the quality of CSD schools. School Performance Director Cindy Hanson reported that Canyons’ Index of Education Quality, as graded by the accreditation body Cognia, […]

Board Meeting Summary. Nov. 30, 2021

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items Administrative Appointments  Ken Rowley was announced as the new principal of Alta High. Rowley, currently Assistant Principal at Corner Canyon High, succeeds Dr. Brian McGill, who will leave his Alta post to become the CSD Director of […]

Board Meeting Summary, Nov. 9, 2021

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items  Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum  The Board of Education opted to seek a new social-emotional learning curriculum to replace “Second Step” at both the elementary and secondary levels. The majority of the Board voted to permanently suspend use of […]

Board Meeting Summary, Oct. 19, 2021

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items Remote-Learning Days  Six Fridays will be set aside as remote-learning days. The Board of Education approved a proposal to shift learning to an online format one Friday a month, starting Nov. 5. The Administration will return at […]

Board Meeting Summary, Oct. 5, 2021

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items Virtual Learning Fridays The Board heard a proposal to designate six Fridays as Virtual Learning days. If approved, one Friday of each month starting Nov, 5, 2021 and ending on April 29, 2022, would be set aside […]

Board Meeting Summary, September 21, 2021

Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking on the corresponding agenda items Curriculum Update Canyons Superintendent Dr. Rick Robins announced an administrative action to immediately suspend the use of “Second Step” in Canyons District schools. This social-emotional curriculum will not be used in Canyons schools until the Board can […]