Our Mission
To improve the learning outcomes and well-being of all children and youth by providing services and leadership in partnership with families, schools and communities.
Our Goals
• Increase learning growth for students
• Decrease the gap in achievement
• Increase annual graduation rates
• Increase gateways to post-secondary success
Be on the lookout for an email that arrived today with an invitation for you to participate in the Denison Organizational Culture Survey. The survey was sent to all staff, so everyone will have a chance to provide their feedback about our agency’s culture (the way we do things around here).
As a reminder, since we are in an odd-numbered year, we will survey only a specific trait from the Denison circumplex -- Consistency. Please remember to be as honest as possible when completing the survey and know that your responses are completely confidential and cannot be tracked. The survey will close on May 10, 2019.
Thank you in advance for your time and feedback!
If not, read on to find out.
Warning
- Weather hazard is occurring, imminent or likely - Poses a threat to life/property- Take Protective Action
Watch
- Risk of weather hazard in the near future- Could pose a threat to life/property- Have a Plan of Action
Advisory
- Weather hazard is occurring, imminent or likely- Could cause significant inconvenience- Use Caution
Outlook
- Risk of weather hazard in the next 7 days- Could pose a threat to life/property- Prepare a Plan of Action
Our annual benefits enrollment is open to all full-time and 96-day employees from April 1 through April 30, 2019 at 4 p.m. for the 2019-20 benefit year, which begins July 1, 2019. Full-time employees may enroll in health and dental insurance and medical flex spending plans, while part-time staff (96-day) may enroll in the medical flex spending plan. (Note: This enrollment period is not for the dependent care plan, which is done in November.) You will need to make enrollment selections even if you choose not to make any changes to your benefits for next year.
This is the time you can add and/or drop family members to your health and dental plans without a life event or change of status. Annual enrollment time is also the only time during the year you can change your deductible—you aren't able to do that during the year, even with a life event or change of status.
How to Enroll
Enrollment can be completed through the Employee Online tab of your Employee Dashboard. If you have any issues enrolling, first try logging out of the Employee Dashboard and then logging back in. You can also use these enrollment instructions, which include instructions on how to print your benefit statement.
VOYA Life Insurance Enrollment
During our annual benefits enrollment, employees who didn’t opt for additional life insurance coverage through VOYA can also enroll. Complete the enrollment form and submit it to Juliette Houseman, Benefits Specialist. Existing employees who are enrolling for the first time will be required to fill out an Evidence of Insurability form. Existing employees who are already enrolled but who want to increase their coverage may also do so at this time. Existing employees may increase your coverage, but if you choose to increase it over $10,000, they will be required to fill out an Evidence of Insurability form. Enrollment will be during April but will be effective on July 1, 2019.
This year Iowa’s AEAs again will subside the cost for schools to upgrade their DE-provided FAST subscriptions to include math and behavior assessments for the 2019-20 school year and are expanding the potential grades available for schools. This year schools will have the option to use the expanded assessment suite in math and behavior for K-6 and will have the additional option to include grades 7 and 8. This option is available both to schools that purchased the expanded assessment suite in 2018-19 and those that want to use for the first time in 2019-20.
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The Agency is preparing to upgrade all of its Mac computers to Apple’s current operating system, macOS 10.14. Having all staff using the same operating system will enhance our security and simplify the process of providing support.
On April 17, you received an email with detailed instructions about how to perform the upgrade. Please read the email and watch the short video included that demonstrates how the upgrade process will be performed.
The Internal Technology Department asks that you complete the upgrade to OS 10.14 by May 10, before the rush of the end of the school year.
If you have any questions, contact the Internal Technology Team.
