CSD Plans Orientations For Freshmen, Sophomores
To ease the transition from middle school to high school, Canyons District high schools will hold orientations this week for freshmen and sophomores students, who will be new to high schools this year as a result of grade reconfiguration. The orientations will be Thursay, Aug. 15 and Friday, Aug. 16. Starting this fall, high schools […]
Crowd Cheers Completion Of Corner Canyon High
A charge of excitement was in the air Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, as students, teachers, parents and patrons joined Canyons District leaders at a ribbon-cutting event to celebrate the completion of the new Corner Canyon High School. The sun shone brightly on the crowd of at least 400 people who gathered to help the Chargers […]
CSD Returns To Regular School Open-Enrollment Window
Canyons District is returning to its traditional window for the school open-enrollment process. For the 2014-2015 school year, applications from students to attend a school other than the one assigned to them by geographic boundaries will be taken Dec. 1, 2013 through the third Friday in February 2014. Last year, Canyons accepted open-enrollment applications from […]
Canyons Establishes Student-Fee Schedule for 2013-2014
Student fees in Canyons District help augment the cost of programs and activities that contribute to the environment of a school community. The 2013-2014 student-fee schedule, which keeps up with rising costs in visual and performing arts, middle school education and digital-learning technologies, was approved by the Board of Education on May 7, 2013. The […]
CTEC’s ‘Girls Code’ Program Is A Hit
When teacher Cody Henrichsen noticed that not many girls were taking his computer programming classes, he decided to do something about it. That’s how Canyons Technical Education Center’s “Girls Code” summer program began in 2012, and the tradition continued this July, with high school girls taking a weeklong crash course in computer programming careers. “For […]
CSD Plans Middle School Orientations For 6th, 7th Grades
Perhaps you remember what it was like: The wide hallways, lockers that wouldn’t open, trying to wend your way from class to class. The first day of middle school is, for most people, an experience they wouldn’t want to repeat. Canyons wants to change that by hosting half-day orientations for CSD’s middle-school first-timers on Aug. 15 […]
Join The Ranks Of Canyons District Volunteers
Volunteering in a school is one of the most rewarding contributions that Canyons District parents, grandparents and interested members of the community can make. Just ask Suzanne Walker, CSD’s 2012 Apex Award winner for Volunteer of the Year. “I love seeing the kids’ smiles. When they see me outside the school, at the store, or […]
Attendance Incentive Calculated for Employees
Canyons School District is pleased to announce the 2012-2013 attendance incentive payouts per employee. The incentive amounts are calculated based on the number of eligible full-time employees and the number of sick, personal and no-pay days taken. The 2012-2013 payout amounts are as follows: Employee Group No Absences One Absence Two Absences […]
Ten CSD Schools Earn 2013 President’s Education Award
Ten CSD schools are winners in the 2013 President’s Education Awards Program, which recognizes achievement and hard work in the classroom. Butler, Crescent, Oakdale, Park Lane, Quail Hollow, Ridgecrest, Sprucewood and Sunrise elementary schools, and Crescent View and Mount Jordan middle schools have all won awards. The U.S. Department of Education announced the honor was […]
Ribbon-Cuttings Planned for Corner Canyon, Butler, Draper Park
The back-to-school season this year will be particularly exciting for students at Corner Canyon High and Butler and Draper Park middle schools. Along with the usual newness of the first day of school new teachers, new lockers, new textbooks, new friends they will have something else to look forward to: new schools. Canyons […]
