Central Staff News

Dallas ISD is preparing to kick off our Annual United Way Employee Giving Campaign, and we need your help!

This year we have been challenged by Superintendent Michael Hinojosa to raise $80,000 to support United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. The campaign will be held from November 1 through December 15, 2017. We would like to encourage each department/campus to have 100% participation. Show your support for the United Way Employee Giving Campaign by donning your favorite pair of jeans. Participation is encouraged with a minimum donation of $5.00 per Jean Day and $15.00 for Jean Week. There are three different ways employees can make a donation to the 2017-18 United Way Employee Giving Campaign Powered by Dallas ISD: Oracle, eWay, Check/Cash. Additional details to follow in upcoming weeks!

Campaign Kick-off: Wear your favorite team’s Jersey (Freebie)

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Jean Days

Friday, November 3, 2017 ($5.00 Donation)

Friday, November 10, 2017 ($5.00 Donation )

Friday, November 17, 2017($5.00 Donation)

Friday, December 1, 2017 ($5.00 Donation)

Jean Week

Monday, December 11- Thursday, December 14, 2017 ($15.00 Donation )

Campaign Ends (Freebie)

Friday, December 15, 2017  (Free Jean Day for all employees that participated in the giving campaign)

In addition, each department/campus will need to designate a staff member to serve as UWMD Campus Campaign Coordinator. This individual will be responsible for collecting cash/check donations, attending a campaign training/information session, and committing to hosting/creating a department event/challenge to increase employee participation. There will be four opportunities to attend the training, below you will find dates, times and locations for each of the sessions.

Should you have any questions, please contact Amanda Sanchez at amasanchez@dallasisd.org or Jamila Thomas at JAMITHOMAS@dallasisd.org.”

Statistically, in the United States alone, about one in eight women and one in one thousand men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in his or her lifetime. Breast cancer affects their family and friends as well.

To kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Human Capital Management’s Benefits Department encourages you to participate in a Districtwide “Pink Out” day on Friday, October 6, 2017. Staff and students are encouraged to wear pink shirts, sweaters, cardigans, etc.

Employees have the option to donate towards breast cancer research through Employee Self Service in Oracle.

Please reach out to Human Capital Management at 972-925-4220 or at humancapitalmanagement@dallasisd.org with any questions.

Mark your calendar for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sat., Sept. 30, to discover one of the district’s best tools for exciting students about STEM–the Environmental Education Center, at 1600 Bowers Rd. in Seagoville.

The center is hosting a Sept. 30 open house for employees and their families to tour the center’s museum and grounds, meet the animals housed in the facility’s barn, take a nature walk on one of several trails and enjoy a lunch of fried catfish. For driving directions and to learn more about what the center has to offer, go here or call (972) 749-6900.

As fall approaches, Human Capital Management Chief Karry Chapman reminds all employees that the summer dress code expires Sept. 29. All employees are expected to resume professional business attire October 2. Her memo with references to board policy is available here. Employees with questions about the dress code may direct them via email to HCM or call the department at (972) 925-4200.

The Baylor Tom Landry Fitness center is offering Dallas ISD staff a 50 percent discount on enrollment fees and a complimentary one-week pass to the facility. The offer is good through October 31. Go here to download an informational flyer.

See Harrison Barnes, Dirk Nowitzki and the rest of your Dallas Mavericks take on the Bucks, Bulls, or Magic for as little as $5 an upper level seat or $30 for lower level seats.

This discounted offer is exclusive for Dallas ISD teachers and staff including their families and friends and applies to the following preseason games:

· Monday, Oct., 2nd vs. Milwaukee, 7:30pm

· Wednesday, Oct. 4th vs. Chicago, 7:30pm – Breast Health Awareness Night-Wear pink with your Mavs blue, to support breast health!

· Monday, Oct. 9th vs. Orlando, 7:30pm

To purchase tickets go to: www.mavs.com/DISD, and use Promo Code: DISD

The Dallas ISD Talk It Up! Toastmasters Club invites district employees to attend the club’s upcoming speech contest at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 20. The contest will feature Talk It Up! club members performing speeches in two categories: Humorous Speeches and Speech Evaluations. Audience members are invited to laugh along with the humorous speeches and witness how Toastmasters perform speech evaluations. The contest will be held in room 247 of the H.B. Bell School Support Services  Building. Admission is free, and everyone’s welcome. The club’s regularly scheduled meetings are held in the same space from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Wednesdays and are open to all employees. To learn more about Toastmasters, visit the club’s Facebook page, or call (972) 925-3915.