Help Us Rise! We ‘Knead’ Parent Input to Hone Recipe For Student Success

We’re cooking up plans to increase student learning – and the recipe can only get better with a healthy school-to-home connection. So spend a few minutes to dash off some thoughts about how Canyons schools are doing. Don’t hold back, even if it’s a little salty. But if we’re doing something right, give us some […]

Teacher’s Weight-Loss Surprise for Soldier Husband To Be Featured on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’

A rock star fourth-grade teacher in Canyons District will be in the spotlight Monday on the big-hit talk show of the country’s first-ever “American Idol.”  Willow Springs Elementary teacher Marci Cornaby says she plans to dash home from work to watch the Veterans Day edition of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” on which she’s set to […]

Canyons District Schools Honor Valor, Strength of Community’s Veterans

Let freedom ring on Monday, Nov. 11, when the country will pause to honor the men and women who have fought to uphold and preserve America’s freedoms, traditions, and ideals. Canyons District schools proudly join in this celebration of the community’s veterans. On Friday, Nov. 8, Draper Park Middle and Eastmont middle schools hosted early morning […]

Boo! CSD to Mark Halloween with Safe Revelry, Parades, Parties

Double, double, toil and trouble, it’s Halloween in Canyons – that falling-leaves-in-rolling-fog time of year when child-sized ghosts, witches and zombies haunt the District’s hallways and classrooms. The tradition of celebrating All Hallow’s Eve will be followed in schools, which have planned parties and parades. None are bigger in Canyons than Sandy Elementary’s annual Halloween […]

CSD Foundation Gives $10,000 to Help Cover College-Application Fees During UCAW

Quite literally, every drive down the fairways at the recent 10th annual golf tournament of the Canyons Education Foundation was done for a great cause: supporting Canyons District’s mission of ensuring the college-readiness of every student enrolled in a Canyons school. The some $80,000 in donations earned at the Sept. 18, 2019 fundraiser at Wasatch […]

CTEC Criminal Justice Students Get Real-Life Look at Working With Inmates

What would you do if you had to break up a fight between inmates?  Or if an inmate was threatening self-harm?  Or asking you to bend rules of the in exchange for a favor? These are all situations that a corrections officer could face upon arriving for the first day of work at a jail.  […]

Diamond Ridge High Launches First Schoolwide Donation Drive

Canyons District’s alternative high school has launched its first-ever schoolwide donation drive. Diamond Ridge High, founded in 2015, is using the online platform SuccessFund to gather the donations throughout October. By Oct. 31, the school, which has an enrollment of about 100 students and is housed at the campus of the Canyons Technical Education Center, […]

CSD Work Program for Adults with Special Needs Seeks Community Partners

Help wanted. A Canyons District program that helps adult special-education students gain the skills necessary to live independently is looking for business partners that would be willing to provide on-site job training for men and women who need just a little extra help to do big things.    Nate Edvalson, a program administrator in Canyons’ […]

Educators, Administrators, Supporters Honored with 2019 Apex Awards

The 2019 Apex Awards, the highest awards given by the Canyons Board of Education and Administration, were presented to 17 educators, administrators, community supporters, leaders, and public education advocates on Tuesday, Sept, 10, 2019.   The honorees, accompanied by friends and family, as well as District officials, mayors, state legislators, and other dignitaries, were feted […]

CSD, Real Salt Lake Team Up For Back-to-School Game Discounts

Set – and make – goals!  That’s the message Real Salt Lake and Utah Royals FC players sent on Monday, Aug. 19 when they visited elementary and middle schools to welcome students back to school after a long summer break.   For three years, the professional soccer players who take to the pitch at Rio […]