Work with Us – Free Open House for Prospective Teachers
We’re hiring! Yes, it’s true. Canyons District is looking for a new superintendent to succeed Dr. Jim Briscoe who announced his intention to retire at the end of the school year. But it’s also that time of the year when our talent scouts crisscross the country in search of top teachers to lead our classrooms. […]
Twenty-two 22 Canyons District Athletes Earn Academic All-State Status in Winter Sports
Whether in the classroom, or on the starting block, court or mat, these sporting scholars bring everything they’ve got. For persevering through years of tough quizzes, meets, matches and performances, 22 students representing all five of Canyons District’s traditional high schools have earned Academic All-State status in winter sports. Among their ranks is Corner Canyon […]
Canyons Announces 2020 High School Graduation Dates
Hindsight may be 20/20. But for the Class of 2020, there’s no looking back not when a bright future is coming into sharper focus by the day. This summer, a group of high school seniors who don’t remember a time before Google or smart phones, who lived through the Great Recession and witnessed the […]
Canyons District Launches National Search for New Superintendent
A national search for the next superintendent of the Canyons School District launched today, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. The application to become Canyons’ fourth-ever chief executive was made available to prospective candidates at 8 a.m. Advertisements promoting the search will be appearing in national publications and on education-related websites until the end of the five-week […]
Canyons Confirms Make-Up Day for Weather-Related Cancellation
To make up for the instructional time lost due to the weather-related cancellation of school on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, a make-up day will be held on Presidents Day. All Canyons District schools will now hold school on Feb. 17 on their usual Monday schedules. Buses also will be operating that day. The Presidents Day […]
Board OK’s Administrative Appointments for 2020-2021
Canyons District is pleased to announce new leadership appointments, which were approved by the Board of Education on Tuesday, Feb 4, 2020. The appointments, effective for the 2020-2021 school year, are: Ryan Durrant, currently the Assistant Principal at Jordan High, transferred to be Assistant Principal at Brighton High. Dina Kohler, now an Intern Assistant Principal […]
CSD Cheers Brighton Grads Playing, Coaching for Chiefs in Super Bowl
Pizza ordered? Check. Dip made? Check? Beverages chilling in the fridge? Check, check, and check. Across America, folks are ticking off their to-do lists to be ready for the Sunday, Feb. 2 Super Bowl battle between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. But few Utah families are more excited to catch the […]
New Year Brings Renewed Commitment to Dual Language Immersion in CSD Schools
The Draper Elementary Dragons sure know a thing or two about celebrating the Lunar New Year. In what has become a proud tradition, students this week performed Chinese songs and dances in the school’s brightly decorated gym while beaming parents looked on the culmination of weeks of rehearsal and preparation and years of instruction […]
Butler Middle’s Logan Wins Utah Middle School Principal of the Year Award
As a former English teacher, perhaps it’s natural for Butler Middle Principal Paula Logan to want to use the power of the principal’s office to launch a schoolwide focus on literacy. It’s the skill that touches all parts of a child’s education, says Logan, who has been an educator for nearly three decades. Logan credits […]
Here’s What School Choice Looks Like in Canyons District
For Hillcrest High senior Laura Wan, the question of which school she would choose to attend began as early as kindergarten, when her parents steered her to an advanced learner’s program at Canyons District’s Peruvian Park Elementary. After completing the SALTA program in elementary school, she chose Midvale Middle for its Middle Years Program, and […]
