Canyons Education Foundation Receives Best of Sandy Award

The Canyons School District Education Foundation is among the best of the best. The Foundation earlier this fall received the Sandy Award Program’s 2015 Best of Sandy Award in the Education category. The Foundation was noted for its service to the community and efforts to make the Sandy area a great place to live, work […]

Deadline Nears to Apply for Grants from CSD Foundation

Libby McShinsky is seeing double in her classroom at Alta View Elementary. McShinsky used iPads that were purchased with a 2014 Teacher Innovation Grant from the Canyons Education Foundation to help students learn about exponents – and the results were effective in multiple ways. “I was teaching them about exponents, and I had this idea […]

Sold-out CSD Golf Tourney Raises Cash for Innovation Grants

Sold out! All 33 foursomes in the Canyons Education Foundation’s sixth-annual golf tournament have been filled with golfers excited to hit the links for a good cause.   Scott Harper, the Foundation’s Development Officer, said that all proceeds from the Monday, Sept. 21, 2015 event will go straight back to Canyons District students and teachers. The tourney, […]

For(e) A Good Cause: Foundation Sets Date for Golf Tourney

Help us swing into the new school year with the sixth-annual fall golf tournament of the Canyons Education Foundation. The Monday, Sept. 21, 2015 event will be at the River Oaks Golf Course, 9300 Riverside Dr., Sandy. The Foundation, the fund-raising arm of Canyons District, organizes the tourney every year to pay for innovative classroom […]

Canyons Launches New Way to Deliver E-Flyers to Parents

While Peachjar may sound like something you would pull out of your grandmother’s pantry, it’s really the name of an e-flyer company that has recently partnered with Canyons District.   Parents this week received notification that Canyons District is launching this new method of sending electronic flyers. They also received an e-mail, which included a username […]

CSD Foundation Gives $8,500 In Scholarships at Spring Gala

The third annual Spring Gala of the Canyons Education Foundation at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium was a “Jaws”-sized success. The Foundation raised some $52,000 for college scholarships, teacher-innovation grants, student-health initiatives, and the CSD Foundation endowment. In addition, the Foundation’s first-ever scholarships for soon-to-be-graduates of CSD schools were announced at the Thursday, April 30 gala, which […]

CSD Foundation To Give $8,500 In Scholarships at Gala

The Canyons District Education Foundation is proud to announce that $8,500 in college scholarships will be awarded to seven Canyons students at the Foundation’s Spring Gala on Thursday, April 30. The gala, which is being held to raise money for future scholarships, as well as other academic initiatives, will be 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Loveland […]

Show Us Some Love! Foundation Raising Money for Scholarships

Show some deserving and low-income high school students some love – with scholarship money. The Canyons Education Foundation, which successfully generates and allocates resources to help Canyons District teachers and students, has launched a new campaign to raise money for student scholarships.    As part of that campaign, today, Thursday, March 26 the Canyons Education […]

Meet Super Bowl Champ at 3rd Annual CSD Foundation Gala

The Canyons School District Education Foundation is making quite a splash in its launch of a new campaign to raise money for student scholarships. Schools of fish at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium will serve as background decorations for the Foundation’s third-annual Spring Gala.  Proceeds from the by-reservations-only event, which will be Thursday, April 30, […]

CTA students learn life skills on AFCU-funded shopping trip

A recent shopping trip for Jordan Valley School’s Transition Academy served as a step forward in the students’ efforts to become productive participants in the community. The shopping excursion, sponsored by America First Credit Union, not only resulted in new footwear, but also assisted the students as they put into practice independent-living and financial-literacy skills. Teacher […]