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DSST Family Relief Fund

DSST Staff,

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Employee Benefits Resources for COVID-19

• Adding coverage: If you or a member of your immediate family loses insurance coverage you are qualified to join DSST’s plans (click here to view details on qualifying life events). Team members can follow this guide to initiate a “qualifying life event” in the Workday benefits app. You will be required to submit proof of loss of coverage (a letter from the company/provider stating the date you lost coverage is sufficient) and complete your benefits enrollment within 30 days after the last day of coverage for you/your family member. Please reach out to your campus dedicated HR representative or humanresources@scienceandtech.org if you need support.

• FSA: if an impact of COVID-19 has caused you to need to change your FSA contributions moving forward you can submit a request in Workday for a qualifying life event (see guides above):

1. For example: if your daycare is closed due to COVID-19 therefore you would like to change your FSA contributions moving forward. Note: you will need to submit documentation for your life event to be approved such as a letter/documentation that the daycare is closed.

2. Medical Resources:

E-School Resources on the Helix

In preparation for DSST E-School, we've put together a whole bunch of resources for you to use! 

E-School Staffing FAQ

E-S Overview:

DSST E-School Launch Resources

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DSST E-School is Coming!

Favorite Books Roundup

Thank you to everyone who shared your book recommendations earlier this year! We're feeling especially grateful to have them all here, as COVID-19 has given us the opportunity to catch up with all of the reading we may have missed.

We've already linked to their dedicated page on the Denver Public Library catalog so you can learn more and place an easy (and free!) hold on these favorite titles. While the library is closed, the Libby app is open! Using your library card, you can seamlessly access tons of books, including audiobooks, through this app. Check it out today!  

Professional Development Sessions

We hope you were able to benefit from some of the PD sessions we've already offered, whether from E-School TLI or general sessions. Please continue to check back on this page, as we will add in new sessions, and post resources shared and recording of the sessions during the sessions if available.

Any future sessions will be added in below, and they will continue to be hosted via Teams. For school specific sessions, you should have received an Outlook invite that includes a Teams link from your School Director for you to join. You are also welcome to join from the links below and also publicized via Teams.

For those sessions that are not school-specific, we will include a Teams link for you to simply click and join the meeting. We are not sending calendar invites for these because we will likely have many, many PD sessions available, and we are trying our best to avoid inundating everyone's inbox.

Please mark your calendar for the sessions you are interested in attending, and you can copy and paste the link into your calendar so that everything is in one place. We will also send daily reminders to the network via Teams on which sessions will be available that day. 

Please reach out to mac@scienceandtech.org with any questions or concerns.