Bienvenue, Les Etudiants Francais!
Canyons District this week is hosting 12 students and two teachers from Grenoble, France. The French delegation arrived late Saturday, Jan. 22, and will return early Saturday, Jan. 29. The schedule for the students and their advisers, who are being housed by gracious volunteer host families who live in Canyons District, is quite robust and […]
Join the Superintendent’s Reading Challenge 2011
Superintendent Dave Doty invites faculty, students, staff and other folks in the Canyons community to join him in the Superintendent’s Reading Challenge 2011. The challenge is really quite simple: read at least one book a month or 12 total for the year. Dr. Doty plans to share anecdotes of his reading adventures on […]
Mount Jordan Wins Chess Tournament
Mount Jordan Middle School has been crowned champion of the inaugural Canyons Middle School Intramurals Chess Tournament. The Mountaineers edged competitors from seven other middle schools in the districtwide tournament, the latest addition to the Canyons Middle School Intramurals Program. Midvale Middle School finished in second place, and Butler and Crescent View middle schools tied […]
Hillcrest’s Paul Kirby is Named Utah’s Assistant Principal Of The Year
Hillcrest High School Assistant Principal Paul S. Kirby on Wednesday, Jan. 19 was named Assistant Principal of the Year by the Utah Association of Secondary Principals. “It’s been said that a teacher affects eternity,” Kirby said at the ceremony in Salt Lake City during which he received his award. “Well, the same could be said […]
New Canyons Board Sworn In
The seven-member Canyons Board of Education began anew Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, with one newly elected member and three re-elected members taking the oath of office. Steve Wrigley is the new representative of District 5, which includes Sandy and the White City area. Elected to the seat in November 2010, Wrigley replaces Ellen Wallace, a […]
Rising Star: Indian Hills Student Performs on ‘Ellen’
An Indian Hills eighth-grader’s star is on the rise. Savannah Keyes, a 13-year-old singer, was plucked from obscurity to perform last week on the talk show “Ellen.” The producers of Ellen DeGeneres’ Emmy-winning daytime talk show spotted Savannah’s performances on YouTube, were impressed by her vocal ability and decided to book her as a musical […]
CSD middle schools win big in Stock Market Game
Students at two Canyons District schools know how to make sense and cents out of the stock market. Teams from Midvale and Crescent View middle schools won three of the top five spots in a competition that teaches students about the American economic system by simulating the bull-and-bear world of Wall Street trading. […]
Canyons Receives Tech Innovation Grant
Canyons School District has received a $48,000 State Superintendent Innovation Grant, aimed at encouraging innovative use of technology to improve student achievement. Canyons is one of seven recipients statewide to share in the $375,250 in grant money offered by State Superintendent Larry K. Shumway. More than 400 teachers, schools and districts applied for grants. Awardees […]
Canyons District Honored For Budget Excellence
Canyons School District has won the Meritorious Budget Award from the Association of School Business Officials International, an honor reserved for school systems that meet or exceed established criteria for preparing an annual budget. The Meritorious Budget Awards Program was designed by ASBO International and school business management professionals to enable school business administrators […]
Superintendent Appears in National Magazine
Canyons Superintendent David S. Doty is quoted in two articles published in the American School Board Journal about his use of social media as an educational and community outreach tool. The article, “Network Connections,” written by Naomi Dillon and published in the Journal’s December 2010 edition, tells how the nation’s school chiefs are examining online […]
