Posted on May 20, 2009

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Nomination Deadline Extended to May 29 for Spillane Leadership Award

The nomination deadline for the Robert R. Spillane Leadership Award has been extended to May 29. The Spillane Leadership Award honors two outstanding FCPS employees who, through their leadership, have made a significant impact on students. This award opportunity focuses on recognizing someone in FCPS who “keeps the main thing the main thing.” Instructional and support employees with five years of service are eligible.

Award winners will be recognized at the annual Leadership Conference on August 5. Information and the nomination form are available online at www.fcps.edu/DHR/employees/awards/index.htm.

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Barbara May Named April News Liaison of the Month

Barbara May, special education teacher at West Springfield High School, has been named the News Liaison of the Month for April by the Department of Communications and Community Outreach (DCCO). This new recognition program rewards school news liaisons for submitting newsworthy media tips and creative photographs. May has served as West Springfield’s news liaison since 2002.

During April, May submitted news about the West Springfield High counseling department earning a nationally recognized ASCA (American School Counselor Association) model program known as RAMP; dedication of a memorial garden planned and constructed by a West Springfield High senior that honors graduates who have died while on active duty in the military; and the results for WSHS students from the Virginia History Day competition. May, who has been employed by FCPS for 18 years and at West Springfield for seven years, received a $25 gift card from Starbucks for being named April’s News Liaison of the Month.

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Tips for Your Health: Have a Trouble-Free Pregnancy

PregnancyIf you or someone you know is having a baby or thinking about having one, you are not alone; last year more than 500 FCPS employees gave birth. To help, HR Wellness, in the Office of Benefits, partnered with the March of Dimes (MOD) to offer FCPS employees a resource and information-rich web site for family planning stages from prepregnancy to post partum, called My Nine Months. The web site also contains some interactive tools such as a due date calendar, a prepregnancy financial and emotional readiness checklist, as well as an ovulation calculator. The focus of the web site is to help parents and babies stay healthy during all stages of family planning.

Additionally, the FCPS My Nine Months web site links to the official MOD web site, which contains even more information and tools to promote healthy pregnancies and healthy babies. Site visitors can sign up for free daily pregnancy tips to be sent directly to their cell phones, or they can receive them on the web. To register go to http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/28699_28714.asp.   

The mission of MOD is to improve the health of babies by reducing preterm births, birth defects, and infant mortality. One of their important campaigns is to educate pregnant families about early recognition of the signs of preterm labor. If you are pregnant or know someone who is, take the time to read over and share this valuable pregnancy information.

So where do you find the FCPS My Nine Months web site? It can be found under Prenatal Information on the HR Wellness web site, or by going directly to http://www.marchofdimes.com/hbhb/viewer.asp?plc=48.

Don’t stop there; bookmark it and share it with others. After all, it’s all about having healthy babies who might one day be FCPS employees too! For more information, contact HR Wellness at hrwellness@fcps.edu.

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Spring WebStar Winners Announced

WebStar AwardThe new FCPS WebStar Awards (previously known as the Best Practices Awards) will be awarded three times eachyear by the Department of Communications and Community Outreach to the web curators of three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school for school web sites that best demonstrate the following criteria:

  • Usefulness of content.
  • Clarity of design.
  • Ease of navigation.
  • Adherence to FCPS web policies.

The spring WebStar winners are:

Nominations will be gathered during the months of September, December, and March, and all FCPS school and department web curators will vote on the entire list of nominees. All WebStar winners will automatically be eligible for the Best of the Web awards, to be given in May.

For more information, contact Nancy Moy at nancy.moy@fcps.edu or 571-423-1221.

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Leonard Bumbaca Named ERFC Trustee

The Educational Employees’ Retirement System of Fairfax County (ERFC) Board of Trustees election to fill one trustee vacancy will not be conducted as planned for May 12 through May 14. Section V of Notice 4771 states that “if only one properly processed nomination petition is submitted, the voting instructions will be waived and the successful candidate announced.” 

Leonard Bumbaca, mathematics teacher at Annandale, was unopposed and will serve as an ERFC trustee for three years beginning July 1.

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