Our Employee Assistance Program Is Here for You

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As we navigate through the next few days, please remember: Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) has counselors available if you or someone in your household needs support. Our EAP provider, GuidanceResources, offers an abundance of self-serve tools, including 24/7 on-demand counselors. You are entitled to 8 free sessions per calendar year. Call 833-306-0108 (toll-free) for direct, 24/7 access to a GuidanceConsultant who will answer your questions and, if needed, refer you to a counselor or other resources, or visit guidanceresources.com (Web ID: ALBEMARLE). Continue reading →

Planning on Doing Your Open Enrollment Session Over the Weekend?

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Only FIVE DAYS remain until the Open Enrollment window closes on Tuesday, November 15! If you’re planning to log in to ADP and complete your Open Enrollment session over the weekend, please take a moment TODAY to log in to ADP and be sure you can successfully access the ADP Open Enrollment module. Also, check out yesterday’s Compass post for tips on overcoming common access issues.

Want to view past Open Enrollment messages that you may have missed? Continue reading →

Virginia Association for Pupil Transportation Poster Contest

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Attention all teachers! The Virginia Association for Pupil Transportation (VAPT) is once again participating in the National School Bus Safety Week Poster Contest. Any public school student, K-12, is eligible for participation. Students are invited to illustrate the 2022-23 poster contest theme: Safely Rolling to My Destination. Submissions will be accepted through March 1, 2023. Continue reading →

Great American Smokeout & Tobacco Free Tuesdays

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On behalf of BeWell Albemarle, we are sharing the following resources associated with the Great American Smokeout, an opportunity for people who smoke to commit to healthy, smoke-free lives, coming up on Thursday, November 17. To celebrate the Great American Smokeout, community members who quit tobacco and nicotine will share their quit journey on Tuesday, November 15, at 10 a.m. To hear these inspiring stories, please register to join the webinar. Continue reading →

HR Weekly Update: Have You Completed Your Open Enrollment Session in ADP?

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Including today, there are six days remaining before our Open Enrollment window closes on Tuesday, November 15. So far, more than 1,500 ACPS employees have successfully completed their Open Enrollment session in ADP! That means, nearly 970 of you have not yet done this.

As a reminder, ALL benefits-eligible staff are required to log in to ADP and either enroll in or decline benefits for next year. Please do not wait until the last few days of Open Enrollment to complete this requirement. Logging in now, while there are still several days remaining, is the best way to ensure that you have time to ask questions and get any answers you need as you consider changes, or get the help you need if you run into technical issues. Continue reading →

Updated Workers’ Compensation Contact Info & Important Reminders

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In an effort to better streamline the workers’ compensation process for all school division employees, we are happy to announce the activation of a new email address! Effective immediately, you can email any documents, questions or requests related to workers’ compensation to workerscomp@k12albemarle.org.

When you send an email to this address, you will reach all members of the HR Safety Team. Continue reading →

Open Enrollment: Get to Know Your Disability Benefit Options

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This is the last of our Get To Know Your Benefits messages for the November 2022 Open Enrollment window, which closes on November 15. The final message in our series will focus on Disability Coverage.

No one plans to get sick or injured, but it happens, and a serious illness or injury can result in months of disability that keeps you from working and exhausts your paid leave balances. While medical insurance helps cover your medical bills, it doesn’t help you meet financial obligations like rent/mortgage and utility bills, and it doesn’t help you buy food and other necessities. This is where disability coverage comes in. Continue reading →

Empowering Our Multilingual Learners in All Classrooms

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The ESOL Office is pleased to offer an ongoing series of professional development sessions to teachers who are looking to improve equitable opportunities for emergent multilinguals in their classrooms. These sessions, offered via Zoom with an in-person option, are now available for registration in the PLMS: Empowering Our Multilingual Learners in All Classrooms. Participants are encouraged to sign up and attend as many or as few of the sessions as they are able!

Sessions will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. on the following Thursdays: Continue reading →

Open Enrollment: Get to Know Your FSA Benefit Options

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Open Enrollment closes in ONE WEEK on Tuesday, November 15! There’s still plenty of time to learn about benefits options that you might not be familiar with and enroll in them for next year. Today’s post will focus on Flexible Spending Accounts, commonly known as FSAs.

FSAs aren’t just a few random letters of the alphabet; they’re a way you can save pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible health and dependent care expenses! FSAs (Flexible Spending Accounts): Continue reading →

2023-24 Budget Survey: Please Participate by Nov. 22

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Dear Colleagues:

Albemarle County Public Schools staff are working diligently to develop a draft budget for next school year that will enable high-quality teaching and learning while meeting student, employee and family needs. Your views are an important part of that work! This fall, we hosted several community conversations in which we invited students, employees, and advisory groups to share ideas for improving teaching and learning in our schools. Our goal is to build a budget for the 2023-24 school year that reflects those ideas. Continue reading →