Staying healthy and active at Ashley Elementary in Near Northeast Denver
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Benefits Open Enrollment is Around the Corner:
What's New With Benefits This Year?
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This year’s Benefits Open Enrollment is
April 20-May 8
and is your opportunity to select medical, dental, vision and supplemental benefits for you and your family. This year, all benefits-eligible employees must take action to select or waive their benefits. Be prepared by reviewing your options early. The most up-to-date, accurate information on medical options, supplemental benefits and more can be found on
The Commons
, whenever you need it.
New this year:
As health care costs continue to increase across the nation,
DPS and our
Benefits Board
are working to find new ways to make benefits more affordable for our team members. This year, DPS is changing the way we pay for health insurance costs. Instead of paying set premiums to insurance carriers, we are moving from a “fully funded model” to a “self-funded model,” which means DPS will take on the monetary risk of paying for claims and, as a result, save on administrative costs, fees and money paid to our insurance carriers.
What does this change mean for you? Premiums will increase by an average of 4.4% this year, compared to an increase that would have been 11%. By moving to a self-funded model, we are saving nearly 7 percentage points on premium increases.
Keep an eye out in mid-March for updated rates and more information about Open Enrollment. If you have any questions, please visit the
Benefits page
of The Commons.
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Top 5: What Were Your Plans for Leap Day?
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Thank you to everyone who shared what they were going to do this leap year with their extra day on Feb. 29!
Check out the Top 5 stories -- and congratulations to our giveaway prize winner,
Mysti Huston at Asbury and Lincoln Elementary.
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"We're 'feeling the force' of the leap day and taking our 4- and 7-year-old to see 'Return of the Jedi' with the Colorado Symphony playing the movie score live." --
Ginger Conly, Education Technology and Library Services
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"With my extra day, my colleague Mollie Sheehan and I will go to not one, but TWO theatrical performances." --
Ami Patra, Schmitt
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"Prune raspberries. Hopefully the snow will melt away before the next storm. It's a task one undertakes in February, so one extra day will be THE DAY."
-- Edward DeRose, South
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"I have a passion for ice fishing, and there is no better place to spend the extra day of 2020 than at my favorite place to fish, Lake Granby, catching trout."
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Nick Simonette, Transportation
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"I will be celebrating my daughter Taryn's Sweet 16! Technically she will be turning 4."
--
Mysti Huston,
Asbury and Lincoln
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Callout: How Did You Celebrate Seuss?
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This week began with Read Across America and Dr. Seuss Day. In honor of this annual recognition, we want to know what kind of Seuss-tastic things did you do to celebrate! Share
your stories and pictures from Read Across America Day through this
form, and you might win a giveaway prize.
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Attend the Reimagining Montbello Campus Community Meeting March 18
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We have heard the voices of many in the Far Northeast Denver community who would like to explore a comprehensive high school option in Montbello. While no final decision has been made yet, our next steps include forming a working group that will weigh possible scenarios and help determine the future program and facility design.
Community members including DPS staff and alumni are encouraged to join the meeting on
March 18
from 5-7 p.m. in the Montbello campus library,
5000 Crown Boulevard.
If you’re interested in joining the working group, please
sign up
.
Learn more about this community-led process by visiting the
Reimagining Montbello page
.
Spanish interpretation and childcare will be available, and if you have any questions, please call the Family and Community Helpline at 720-423-3054.
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Password Security: 12 is the Magic Number
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Passwords provide essential protection for online accounts, and creating longer and varied passwords ensures extra security.
To protect DPS login information,
all district passwords must be a minimum of 12 characters in length
. In coming months, DoTS will send you an email notification if your DPS password does not meet requirements, along with instructions on how to change it.
If you have not updated your DPS password recently, please change it now by visiting
iforgot.dpsk12.org
. For more information -- including best practices, requirements and instructions on how to change your password -- please visit the
Your DPS Password on The Commons.
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Hannah Spock
Teacher, Montbello Career and Technical High School
Fun
“Fun is the name of science at
Montbello Career and Technical High School (
MCT). Hannah Spock is a ‘science geek.’ If you come to visit her class at MCT, you would instantly see how she makes science fun and engaging for her students. Hannah is always thinking about how to help make kids more inquisitive through fun activities. Last trimester, she started an aquaponics system. The students are proud of the veggies they've grown and are invested in the project. In addition, Hannah organized a fun activity for staff when her mom came in to teach yoga! Hannah sees learning as fun and attempts to incorporate it into every aspect of her work.”
--Karen Powell, Montbello Career and Technical High School
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Denver Public Schools sends all district newsletters and critical employee communications through Constant Contact. Please do not unsubscribe your dpsk12.org email address from any message; if you unsubscribe from one newsletter or one communication, you will be removed from all other district-managed email lists in Constant Contact. If you have any questions, please email
newsletters@dpsk12.org
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