What are the best methods for me to receive timely WSD notifications?

Currently, the preferred methods for getting WSD notifications are to visit the main wsd.net web site, as well as your school web site. Other options include checking our district Twitter account or Facebook page. Please keep in mind that our Facebook page is not monitored 24/7, so any messages you send may not be responded to immediately.

We also offer the ability to sign up for email and text alerts. However, due to the volume of message that are being sent out, these two options are not as timely.

To sign up to follow our Twitter account, text “follow @wsdnotification” to 40404.

To verify your phone or email address, please log in to myweber.wsd.net

Additional information about each of our notification systems follows:

WSD Notifier - Parents

Weber School District uses several methods to communicate important and timely messages to parents. These methods include email, text messaging, district websites and social media. This guide will explain how to receive and/or view any messages sent via the WSD Notification system. Parents are encouraged to follow any or all of the following methods to ensure timely notification.

Email Notifications

To receive email notifications, a parent must be registered at myweber.wsd.net. If you are already registered and need to change the email address that receives WSD Notification messages, you can change it by clicking on “Preferences” from the top menu.

Note: Each parent must have their own MyWeber account to receive WSD Notification messages via email and text.

Text Message Notifications*

To receive text message notifications on your mobile phone, you must have your cell phone number listed in your MyWeber account. To check your current listed contact information or to update your mobile number login at myweber.wsd.net and select “Preferences” from the top menu.

Twitter Notifications*

You do not need to have a Twitter account to follow and receive text messages sent from the WSD Notification Twitter account. Do the following to receive WSD Notification tweets as text messages on your mobile device:

Send “follow @wsdnotification” to the number “40404”

School and District Websites

The notification message will also be displayed on all school and district web pages. Simply visit any of the sites to see the WSD Notification Message.

Facebook

WSD Notification messages can also be viewed by following the Weber School District Facebook page.

*Message and data rates may apply

On Wednesday March 2, 2016, Weber School District partnered with the Weber County Sheriff's Office, Pleasant View Police Department, Roy City Police Department, and the Utah Highway Patrol to conduct the largest safety drill in the district to date. The three-staged lockdown, evacuation, and reunification exercise was conducted at Kanesville Elementary in West Haven.

Gone are the days when the only drills teachers and administration needed to worry about involved earthquakes and fire. As a district we must now be prepared to protect the safety of our students in a variety of situations. Weber School District is committed to being prepared to protect, evacuate, and reunite the children with their parents and loved ones in the event of a natural disaster or tragedy.

Principal Scott Zellmer initiated discussion of drill that would involve transporting students from the school. Unlike most other schools in the District, Kanesville has the distinction of being geographically located in an area without surrounding schools, parks, or other public spaces that are suitable for an evacuation of this magnitude. In preparation for the drill, the Weber County Sheriff's Office suggested use of the Weber County Fairgrounds as an evacuation site due to its relatively close approximation to Kanesville and the fact that its layout was easily secured by law enforcement.

Lockdown, evacuation, and reunification drills have all been conducted separately prior to Wednesday's drill, but this was the first time the District has conducted all three drills concurrently. Planning for the drill was a months-long process that required a small army of volunteers and cooperation with multiple agencies. The day began at 9:00 with teachers receiving the signal to begin the lockdown with “locks, lights, out of sight”. Classrooms were individually cleared by law enforcement and children were escorted onto waiting buses, walking hand-in-hand. Streets along the evacuation route were closed to traffic, and a police escort accompanied the buses to the Fairgrounds where the children were taken into the Exhibit Hall. Parents were notified via email and text of their student's location and given the “all clear” to begin arriving at the Fairgrounds for reunification. Upon arrival, parents filled out information cards and were asked to present their identification. Once checked in, they were sent to a waiting area until their children were brought to the reunification table. At that point, identification was again verified and students were reunited and sent home with their parents. The cooperation of parents in the process was appreciated very much.

Nate Taggart, Weber School District's Spokesperson and Safety Specialist stated that it is everyone's hope that we never have to use this protocol, but emphasized the importance of being prepared for such an event. Overall, the process was very smooth and well executed with few issues. Many lessons were learned, and ideas for expediting evacuation and reunification were shared. Input received from law enforcement, parents, and school officials has been invaluable in helping us to streamline the process; however, the most important feedback we received was from the students themselves. The children felt protected and secure knowing that procedures were in place to ensure their safety. They even reported having a lot of fun watching movies and playing games while they waited for their parents to arrive. But perhaps most fun of all, they received their very own police escort!

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Following are some helpful links to help keep the Internet safe for your child.

Links

• CyberTipline
  

  The Congressionally-mandated CyberTipline is a means for reporting crimes against children including:

  • Possession, manufacture, and distribution of child pornography
  • Online enticement of children for sexual acts
  • Child prostitution
  • Sex Tourism Involving Children
  • Extrafamilial Child Sexual Molestation
  • Unsolicited Obscene Material Sent to a Child
  • Misleading Domain Names
  • Misleading Words or Digital Images on the Internet
  
  

  Reports may be made 24-hours a day, 7 days a week online at www.cybertipline.com or by calling 1-800-843-5678.

• Inhope
  

  INHOPE Hotlines offer the public a way of anonymously reporting Internet material including child sexual abuse material they suspect to be illegal. The Hotline will ensure that the matter is investigated and if found to be illegal the information will be passed to the relevant Law Enforcement Agency and in many cases the Internet Service Provider hosting the content.

• Utah Do Not Contact Registry
  

  Protect Your Family's Addresses

  The Utah Child Protection Registry is a free program provided by the State of Utah that helps you stop adult-oriented solicitations from being targeted at you and your family. The program allows you to protect:

  • E-Mail Addresses
  • Mobile Phone Numbers
  • Instant Messenger IDs
  • Fax Numbers

  Companies and marketers that send adult-oriented messages, such as those promoting pornography, alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, and gambling are required to screen their mailing lists with the State of Utah and remove registered addresses and numbers before they send their solicitations. Marketers that fail to remove registered addresses face felony charges as well as substantial civil and criminal fines.

Internet Chat Acronyms

• AcronymFinder
  

  With more than 1,000,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 5 million acronyms and abbreviations. New! You can also search for more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes.

• NetLingo
  

  With more than 82 million people texting regularly, it's no wonder you've seen this cryptic looking code! Commonly used wherever people get online -- including IMing, SMSing, cell phones, Blackberries, PDAs, Web sites, games, newsgroup postings, in chat rooms, on blogs -- these abbreviations are used by people to communicate with each other. The actual definition of an acronym and text shorthand is here.

Internet Filters

• K9 - FREE Internet filtering software
  

  K9 Web Protection is a free Internet filter and parental control software for your home Windows or Mac computer. K9 puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids.

• Computer Cop
  

  ComputerCOP is proud to have been chosen as a G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training) vendor. ComputerCOP is the only software company to have been given such a distinction by this highly acclaimed Justice Department program.

• Content Protect
  

  ContentWatch, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an innovative company focused on delivering Internet management solution for families, schools, businesses and government. It is a world leading provider of Internet filtering and management solutions with customers in more than 157 countries. It is available in English, Spanish, Turkish and Japanese. With over 300,000 users in Turkey alone and partnerships in Australia, Japan, and the UK, Net Nanny has proven its global market appeal.

• CyberPatrol
  

  CyberPatrol is a pioneer and leader in the Parental Control software market.
  Launched in 1995, CyberPatrol is one of the most trusted named in parental controls software. The CyberPatrol products are specifically developed for ease of use to help protect families and businesses from threatening online activity.

• Cybersitter
  

  CYBERsitter actively filters search queries depending on the filters you have selected. CYBERsitter also has a "strictness" setting that lets you adjust how sensitive you want CYBERsitter to be when a user searches using a search engine. The strictness feature has several levels that allow you to set different levels for children, teens, and adults.

• Safe2Read
  

  Safe2read allows you to allocate everyone in your family their own email account, with a level of automatic supervision appropriate to their age. You need to decide ONCE if each of your child's email friends is suitable - after that you are only alerted when strangers come calling. This works with ANY internet provider.

Prevention Sites

• Child Lures Prevention
  

  Our mission is to help ensure the personal safety of children and youth through increased awareness, education, advocacy and action. Our goal is to prevent all forms of child victimization by teaching families, professionals and other community members how to recognize, interrupt and report inappropriate situations before abuse occurs.

• The Children's Partnership
  

  The Children's Partnership works to ensure that all children—especially those at risk of being left behind—have the resources and the opportunities they need to grow up healthy and lead productive lives.

• Crimes Against Children Research Center
  

  The mission of the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) is to combat crimes against children by providing high quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners. CCRC is concerned with research about the nature of crimes including child abduction, homicide, rape, assault, and physical and sexual abuse as well as their impact.

• CyberSmart
  

  CyberSmart! fosters 21st century skills to increase student engagement and prepare students to achieve in today's digital society.

• DMOZ Open Director Project
  

  This link offers several additional sites for internet safety directed specifically at kids and teens

• Internet Keep Safe Coalition
  

  The Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe), established in 2005, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit international alliance of more than 100 policy leaders, educators, law enforcement members, technology experts, public health experts and advocates. Through this network of support, iKeepSafe tracks global trends and issues surrounding digitally connected products and their affect on children. This research drives the continuous creation of positive resources for parents, educators and policymakers who teach youths how to use new media devices and platforms in safe and healthy ways.

• iSAFE America
  

  i-SAFE Inc. is a leading publisher of media literacy and digital citizenship education materials and programming with worldwide distribution channels. Founded in 1998 and supported by the U.S. Congress and various executive agencies of the U.S. government, i-SAFE is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and empowering youth (and others) to safely, responsibly and productively use Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).

• Megan’s Law
  

  As a result of a new law, this site will provide you with access to information on more than 63,000 persons required to register in California as sex offenders. Specific home addresses are displayed on more than 33,500 offenders in the California communities; as to these persons, the site displays the last registered address reported by the offender. An additional 30,500 offenders are included on the site with listing by ZIP Code, city, and county. Information on approximately 22,000 other offenders is not included on this site, but is known to law enforcement personnel.

• SafeKids.com
  

  SafeKids.com is one of the oldest and most enduring sites for Internet safety. It’s creator, Larry Magid, is the author of the original 1994 brochure, “Child Safety on the Information Highway” and is also co-director of ConnectSafely.org and a technology journalist.

• SafeTeens.com
  

  SafeTeens.com is a place for teens and their parents to learn safe, civil and responsible use of the Internet. It’s operated by technology journalist Larry Magid who also operates SafeKids.com and is co-director of ConnectSafely.org

• WebWise Kid
  

  For more than ten years, we have been providing unique and effective resources to equip young people to safely use and enjoy the latest technologies. Our programs prepare kids to be their own first lines of defense so they can confidently explore the best that the Internet has to offer. To date, more than 10 million middle school and high school students from all 50 states have participated in our programs.

Primary Resources

• www.netsmartz.org
  

  NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. The program is designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations, NetSmartz entertains while it educates.

• http://www.ncmec.org/
  

  The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, (NCMEC), is a private, (501)(c)(3) nonprofit organization which was created in 1984. The mission of the organization is to serve as the nation’s resource on the issues of missing and sexually exploited children. The organization provides information and resources to law enforcement, parents, children including child victims as well as other professionals.

• www.pollyklaas.org/internet-safety/internet-pdfs/PollingSummary.pdf
  

  View the Polly Klaas® nation wide teen Internet poll results

• Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website
  

  The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW), coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice, is a cooperative effort between jurisdictions hosting public sex offender registries (“Jurisdictions”) and the federal government and is offered free of charge to the public. These Jurisdictions include the 50 states, U.S. Territories, the District of Columbia, and participating tribes. The Website provides an advanced search tool that allows a user to submit a single national query to obtain information about sex offenders; a listing of public registry Web sites by state, territory, and tribe; and information on sexual abuse education and prevention.

• http://www.k9webprotection.com/
  

  K9 Web Protection is a free Internet filter and parental control software for your home Windows or Mac computer. K9 puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids.

• Appropriate Use Policy
• Suicide Prevention Training
• Utah Child Sexual Abuse Online Prevention Training

The following Trainings require you to be logged in to your District Gmail Account 

Mandatory for all employees

Login to your District Gmail account.  Once you have logged in visit the following link on the Canvas system. https://wsd.instructure.com/  Click the 'Employee Login' Button.

• Bloodborne Pathogens
• "Right to Know" Training
• Harassment & Discrimination
• Standard Response Protocol Training
• Bullying and Hazing Training

Only for some employees

You will receive notification from your supervisor or manager if you need these additional trainings.

Login to your District Gmail account.  Once you have logged in visit the following link on the Canvas system. Click the 'Employee Login' Button.

• Medication Training (Annual Secretary Medication Training)
• Medication Training for Teachers (Annual Medication Training for Teachers who will administer medication on a field trip)

Bullying and Hazing Video

• Bullying and Hazing Training

The video portal has a large assortment of videos and movies that can be used in your classroom.

You can access the video portal at http://video.wsd.net. Enter your employee login if prompted, and browse the catalog. Due to copyright restrictions, videos are only playable from inside the school district.

Access the Video Portal

Weber School District employees use AESOP for submitting leave requests and finding substitutes for classes. Teachers can fill out a list of preferred substitutes, and the system automatically finds and contacts the best matches for them.

Login to AESOP

Frequently Asked Questions

Wellness Insurance Premium & Wellness Incentive 

*WSD employees must be insurance eligible to qualify for wellness incentive.

Due to COVID the district will not be hosting health screenings this year.  Employees have 2 options to qualify for the wellness insurance premium and wellness incentive (convert 2 sick days to 1 personal day OR $25)

Option #1

Visit your doctor for a physical.  Have your doctor complete the Physican Form and turn the form into Sue Mecham in Human Resources.

Physician Form

Option#2

Review wellness video and complete wellness quiz below.  

 Structured Self-Care Worksheet- Discussed in video

*Options need to be completed by February 1, 2021 to qualify for the wellness insurance premium for plan year 2021-22 and wellness incentive.  The wellness incentive will be issued on March 1, 2021 paycheck.

Spouse Participation

*Employee spouse must be enrolled on Weber School District health insurance plan to receive the wellness incentive $25 gift card.     

Spouse participation is OPTIONAL. Spouse's will need to complete option a or option b above to qualify for their own $25 gift card.  

*Options need to be completed by February 1, 2021 to receive the wellness insurance premium for plan year 2021-2022 and wellness incentive (convert 2 days to 1 personal day OR $25).  Employee wellness incentive will be included on March 1, 2021 paycheck.  Spouse gift cards will be distributed by the schools in April 2021.

If you have questions please contact Sue Mecham 801-476-7847 or Human Resources- 801-476-7886.

E-volve is professional development training, provided by Weber School District Technical Services, delivered directly to small groups of teachers in their own schools.

During this high-impact training, lead instructors guide no more than 12 participants through a 90 minute hands-on course, while up to six Weber School District Techs sit side-by-side with participants to provide assistance.

Take advantage of this in-school training opportunity in just three easy steps.

1. Choose a relevant 90-minute hands-on course from the following course list.
2. Contact your lead E-volve instructor to set up a time for training.
3. Arrange for substitutes to cover the hours teachers will be out of class. (Substitutes paid for by individual schools).

In accordance with Utah State law, background checks are required for all employees before beginning employment.

Weber School District is an equal opportunity employer.

Weber School District adhears to: 34A-5-106. Discriminatory or prohibited employment practices -- Permitted practices.

Enrolling and Accessing the Internet Safety Courses

1. Login to your District account via Gmail.
   1. For elementary, visit the Elementary Internet Safety course. Click Enroll
   2. For secondary, visit the Secondary Internet Safety course. Click Enroll
2. To access the content after enrolling, visit Log into http://canvas.wsd.net/
3. Familiarize yourself with this content before showing this to your students.
4. When you are ready to show your students the CIPA training, read the content and navigate the course by clicking through the modules.
5. When finished sharing the CIPA material with your students, you will need to use MyStudent to indicate your students have received the training.