Board Meeting Summary, March 29, 2016
Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking the corresponding agenda items.  Mill Hollow Summer Camp Discussion The Board of Education heard a report on Mill Hollow, an environmental learning center owned by the U.S. Forest Service. The camp, located about 77 miles from the Canyons Administration Building-East, was […]
Gov. Herbert Presents RizePoint STEM Scholarships To CSD
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert was among the dignitaries who attended an open house and ribbon-cutting for RizePoint, a software company that is re-locating to the Canyons District community. At the Wednesday, March 23 event at the firm’s new beachhead, 2890 E. Cottonwood Parkway, the District received 10 $500 scholarships to be used on STEM-related activities. […]
Board Meeting Summary, March 1, 2016
Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking the corresponding agenda items. Board OK’s Logo, Colors for Diamond Ridge High Diamond Ridge, CSD’s new alternative high school, has a sparkling new logo, colors  and a fierce mascot to match.  Communications Director Jeff Haney unveiled logo designs developed by the […]
Board Meeting Summary, Feb. 2, 2016
Note: Recordings and documents for agenda items can be accessed via BoardDocs by clicking the corresponding agenda items. University of Utah Partnership The Board of Education told the Administration to begin work on a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Utah that would allow Alta High to launch an early-college high school program in 2017. […]
Dual-Immersion Students Connect with Chinese Peers
Draper Elementary students learning Mandarin Chinese have made contact with peers at their sister school learning English from halfway around the world. Fifth-graders in the Mandarin Chinese-English Dual-Language Immersion program participated in a teleconference with students at their newly designated Chinese sister school, Shenyang Wanghulu Primary School in China’s Liaoning Province, on Monday, Nov. 16, […]
How to Help Kids Get Ready for College? Free Workshops Nov. 12
What classes can help high school students prepare for college? Which skills will be needed in the workforce of tomorrow? Parents will receive answers to these questions and more at two free workshops, offered in English and in Spanish, on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. The free, evening workshops for families of CSD high school students […]
CSD’s Sterling Receives ‘Champion in Afterschool’ Award
CSD’s Karen Sterling is as good as gold in the eyes of the Utah Afterschool Network. The Director of Student Advocacy and Access received the organization’s “Champion in Afterschool Award” at its conference Friday, Oct. 7, 2015. The award honors Sterling’s efforts to ensure all students receive the support and opportunities they need to achieve […]
High Five, Helping Hands! Volunteer Appreciation Week
Thank you, volunteers! Canyons School District salutes the men and women who generously donate their time and talents to help students succeed. Last year, nearly 12,000 volunteers about one volunteer for every three CSD students registered to lend a hand in CSD schools, be it to read with a child or help a […]
Bengals Win Freshman-Sophomore Soccer League Championship
Brighton High School’s girls freshman/sophomore soccer team gathered in a huddle underneath an October blue sky and cheered as they received the first-ever trophy for their league. Canyons School District launched the soccer league for ninth- and 10th-graders in summer 2015 to provide more opportunities for younger students to access to high school sports. Typically, some […]
Draper Park, Indian Hills Win Intramural Cross Country Race
Draper Park boys and Indian Hills girls teams run like the wind. The two teams were crowned champions of the 2015 Canyons School District Middle School Intramurals Cross Country Race, held Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 at Eastmont Middle School. Second place trophies went to the Union boys and Butler girls teams. Albion boys and Draper […]