Canyons District Students Prevail at State Debate Tourney
Deploying the tactics of history’s great orators, from Pericles and Cicero to Winston Churchill and Frederick Douglass, four Canyons School District students claimed victory at the 2017 Utah State Middle School and Elementary School Debate Tournaments. More than 250 middle school and 180 elementary students participated in the tournaments, which were held at Alta High. […]
Union Middle’s Drew Fosse Named 2017 Teacher of the Year
The bell at Union Middle is about to ring, but Drew Fosse’s class has a tough task at hand: Don’t smile. Everyone is silent as Fosse slowly walks around the room with a fake scowl. The challenge to make eye contact with Fosse and stay serious carries a reward, which students redeem at […]
Board of Education Bumps Up Teacher Pay, OKs New Salary Schedule
The Canyons Board of Education on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 approved an innovative and progressive salary schedule that will boost the starting salary for a beginning teacher more than $5,000 a year while also providing salary hikes for mid-career and veteran educators. The new salary schedule pushes the starting salary for a new teacher in […]
Board OKs Tentative Negotiated Agreements with ESP, Administrators
The Canyons Board of Education on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 approved tentative negotiated agreements for the 2017-2018 with the Canyons Education Support Professionals Association and District Administrators. By accepting the tentative agreements, and with the vote to put into place a new salary schedule for licensed educators for the 2017-2018 school year, all employees in […]
Talented Teen Musicians Picked to Perform with Utah Symphony
Five of CSD’s talented high school instrumentalists have been selected to perform with the Utah Symphony at an All-Star Evening Concert on Tuesday, May 23. The rare honor is granted to 57 students statewide. At the 7 p.m. event at Abravanel Hall, students will perform Dvorak’s Violin Concerto side-by-side with their professional counterparts. The performance […]
Work, Live in CSD: CTEC Project House Up for Sale to Canyons District Employees
This is the house that Canyons built. And it’s also being put up for sale at a drastically reduced rate for any qualifying Canyons District teacher or Education Support Professional. The listed price of the 1,500-square-foot house, which was built as part of the Canyons Technical Education Center’s construction-management program, is $285,000. That’s far below […]
Nominations Now Open For Canyons District’s 2017 Apex Awards
It takes a small army to run a school, from first-rate principals, exemplary educators, and busy bus drivers to top-rate lunch and custodial staff, technology experts and financial wizards not to mention scores of classroom volunteers. Only through the combined knowledge and skill of these champions of public education do Canyons District schools succeed, […]
Building Momentum: CSD Breaks Ground on Final Bond Project
The wind howled and shook the balloons at Indian Hills Middle Thursday as community members gathered to celebrate the beginning of a remodel and addition to the school. But nothing could sweep away students’ excitement to get the project going. Whoops and cheers accompanied school leaders, administrators, local representatives and members of Canyons’ Board of […]
Join us for Canyons District’s Community Wellness Fair
Warming temperatures signal the return of spring and Canyons District’s annual Community Wellness Fair. CSD is the teaming up with Healthy Sandy, Healthy Salt Lake, and area businesses to sponsor the District’s 2nd annual Wellness Fair on Wednesday, April 12 from 4-6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Children can come […]
Turn the Dirt! Groundbreaking For New Indian Hills Set for Thursday
Prepare to turn the ceremonial dirt at the site of the 13th and final school-improvement project that was promised to voters when a $250 million bond was approved in 2010. A groundbreaking ceremony to herald the start of work on a renovation project at Indian Hills Middle will be at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April […]
