April 29, 2022
Latest Updates on Our Reorganization
Dear Team DPS,

Last Friday, we provided updated information related to the new structures for the Offices of Schools, Operations and Talent. We continue to encourage each of you to read our weekly updates and check the job board for opportunities opening throughout Central Office. Please know that we will continue to provide information on what our teams will look like. We encourage you to continue to connect with your manager about new roles that will be posted.

This week our leadership team has been “all hands on deck” and are focused on making data-driven decisions related to managing the reorganization of our central support teams. As we continue to do this work, we want to ensure that the choices we make are not only in the best interest of our 90,000-plus students, their families and the community as a whole, but also of each and every member of Team DPS.

Our Office of Schools, Operations, Talent, and Chief of Staff have been working tirelessly this week to reconcile some opportunities for improvement that we have recently discovered during this process. The Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report that we commissioned identified redundancies in some staffing positions. As we continue to refine our new structure and post new positions, we are looking forward, and we have taken concrete next steps to address these inefficiencies.

While these efforts are taking place, we are actively working to ensure that the moves we make related to the restructuring of our teams are aligned not only to our values of Accountability, Collaboration and Equity, but also to what we need for our Strategic Plan. We also want to reiterate that our culture remains at the top of our minds and helps guide us as we make decisions. While we are working to navigate through these changes in an expedient and thoughtful way, we know that this process takes a toll on each of us and our collective culture. Understandably, we have a gap right now between our existing culture and the one we desire. Please remember that culture-building is a “group effort”, and that everyone is responsible for helping cultivate the culture we all want.
Announcements
The Operations Team is tasked with helping to create and maintain a safe and orderly environment for our scholars at Denver Public Schools. To help in that effort, we are thrilled to announce the following additions to the group:

  • Executive Director of Planning, Design and Construction: Troy Garner
  • Executive Director of Enterprise Management: Theresa Hafner
  • Executive Director of Facility Management: Trena Marsal
  • Executive Director of Enrollment and Campus Planning: Liz Mendez
  • Executive Director of Transportation: Albert Samora

Thank you to all of our Central Team Members who are helping solicit gifts, coupons and other items of appreciation for our educators during next week’s Teacher Appreciation Week. We know that each one of them will be thankful for your efforts. As we celebrate our teachers, we are also sharing some of that love with all of our Central Team Members. Stay tuned for details on food, fun and time away from the EGC! 

In Collaboration, 

Dr. Alex Marrero, Superintendent
Deborah Staten, Deputy Chief of Staff
Dr. Tony Smith, Deputy Superintendent of Schools
Jim Carpenter, Deputy Superintendent of Operations
Edwin Hudson, Chief of Talent
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