CSD Announces Locations, Dates of Summer Meal Service
Canyons School District announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program. Free meals will be made available to attending children 18 years or younger. Meals will be served 8:30-9:30 a.m. for breakfast and 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for lunch beginning June 10 and ending Aug. 2 at Copperview, East Midvale, and Sandy Elementary Schools. […]
Parents Invited to Review Proposed Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum
The concept is really quite simple: If a student is feeling insecure, depressed or fearful, or any other emotion that is at the root of concerning behaviors, chances are they aren’t learning at high levels. To the end of helping all students feel a sense of balance, which could improve achievement, Canyons District proposes the […]
Students to Shine at Canyons District’s 10th Anniversary Festival
On a brisk, clear day on July 1, 2009, Canyons District made history. That was the first day of the first year of the first new school district to be created in Utah in nearly a century. With a laser-like focus on helping every one of our students become college- and career-ready, Canyons District has […]
The Envelope, Please: Who Will Win Awards at 10th CSD Film Festival?
While film critics around the country continue to debate whether “Green Book” was truly the year’s best picture, students in Canyons District schools have set their sights on becoming the next Steven Spielberg, Alfonso Cuaron, or Spike Lee. Some 121 student-created entries from nearly every school in Canyons District, were submitted for the consideration […]
CSD Eliminates Fees for Courses Taken Via Virtual High School
Like most teenagers anxious to hit the road, sophomore Connor Perkins wants to be able to get his driver’s license as soon as he turns 16 in May. The challenge? Fitting a required Driver’s Education course into his already-packed class schedule at Hillcrest High. The answer for Connor was the Canyons Virtual High School, Canyons […]
New Date! CCHS Will Begin Accepting School-Choice Applications March 18
A five-year enrollment moratorium has been lifted at Corner Canyon High, where a 24-classroom addition funded by the $283 million bond approved by voters in November 2017 is now being constructed. The Board of Education on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 voted to allow the school to start accepting Standard Open Enrollment Applications from students who […]
Hillcrest Huskies Roaring for Final Time in Art Hughes Gymnasium
If these walls could talk, they would tell stories of edge-of-your-seat wins and losses, drenched-with-sweat practices, the thump-and-blare of the pep band, and the heard-for-miles cheers of generations of Huskies. While history has been kind to Hillcrest’s Art Hughes Gymnasium, the time has come to build new memories in a facility that’s being constructed for […]
Why I Teach’ – How Canyons District is Working with the University of Utah to Lift the Teaching Profession
We all grumble about our jobs from time to time, and teachers are no different. Those small and subtle messages, however, can quickly snowball to create an unflattering picture of teaching as a career choiceespecially when uttered within earshot of impressionable young minds and compounded with news headlines about teacher shortages and walkouts. But what […]
Board of Education Members Take Oath of Office, Elect Leadership
Four members of the Canyons Board of Education were sworn into office on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019 after winning the majority of the votes in the November 2018 General Election. Also, in a historic decision, the newly empaneled Board voted to elect Nancy Tingey as the first female Board President in Canyons District history. The […]
CSD Honors Service of Outgoing Board President Sherril Taylor
This January marks the first time in over a decade that Sherril H. Taylor, a member of the inaugural Canyons Board of Education, does not have a front-row to history in Canyons School District. With his decision to not seek re-election in November, Taylor’s 10-year tenure as the representative for District No. 6 in Canyons came […]
