This WeekDecember 8, 2015 Volume 29, No. 12

Richland One will be moving to electronic direct deposit pay stubs beginning Friday, December 11. The district will discontinue issuing paper pay stubs to employees. You will have to go onto MUNIS Employee Online to retrieve your pay stubs.

Benefits of using electronic direct deposit pay stubs include:

• Secure, 24/7 online access to past and present pay stubs

• Easy employee login from any location via MUNIS Employee Online

• Lowered risk of identity theft and increased security of personal information

Richland One Principals for a Day

Employees to begin receiving electronic pay stubs Friday

Elected officials, business and community leaders put aside their normal work duties for a day to serve as Principals for a Day of Richland One schools on December 7. This is the seventh year the district has held the Principal for a Day community engagement initiative. The Principals for a Day included first-time participants as well as persons who have served as Principals for a Day at different schools in prior years.

This year’s participants included (clockwise from above photo) Demetrius Chatman from South Carolina State University, who served as Principal for a Day at Heyward Career and Technology Center, shown with Heyward Principal Dr. Sherry Rivers and culinary arts students; Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, Principal for a Day at Burton-Pack Elementary School; and Dr. Helen Doerpinghaus (far right) from the University of South Carolina, Principal for a Day at Hand Middle School, with Hand Principal Jody Davidson. At the end of the day, the principals and Principals for a Day gathered for a recognition reception at C.A. Johnson High School.

How to prepare for Friday’s “go live” date:

• Review the MUNIS Employee Self Service User Guide (the guide was sent to all employees via district-wide e-mail; it is also posted at www.r1intranet.org).

• Contact Elaine Jackson in Human Resources at martha.jackson@richlandone.org to obtain access to MUNIS Employee Online if you currently don’t have access.

• Begin using MUNIS Employee Online now to get accustomed to reviewing your pay advices and other payroll information on MUNIS Employee Online.

•Dr. Beyonka Wider, program consultant in the Office of Career and Technology Education (CATE), has been selected as a 2016 Region II Fellow by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). Each year, ACTE selects five representatives, one from each ACTE region, to develop their leadership skills. The ACTE National Leadership Fellowship Program provides participants with the leadership development, policy knowledge and professional development that future leaders will need to succeed. The term of the fellowship is one calendar year (January-December).

•Caroline Carson, art teacher at Rosewood Elementary School, represented Richland One and South Carolina at the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Convention in Phoenix, Arizona on November 14. She presented a session entitled “Foundations of Global Awareness: A Multicultural Gifted and Talented ELA Interdisciplinary Thematic Unit of Study” to an audience of K-6 gifted educators from across the nation. The curriculum unit is designed to move gifted and talented students from past to present and from local culture to world cultures by analyzing, informational texts, historical, realistic and traditional literature, historical documents, video clips, music and art. Mrs. Carson has developed curriculum for the Advanced Academic Programs for approximately 15 years. She also presented at the College of William and Mary’s Curriculum Summer Network last year.

•Bradley Elementary School (Elizabeth Russell) and Lower Richland High School (Constantina Green) are among the five Richland County schools selected to receive funding for conservation projects through the Conservation Education Mini-Grant and Clean Streams Columbia Programs sponsored by the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District and the City of Columbia. These award programs provided up to $250 in support of environmental efforts at Richland County schools.

•Hand Middle School, in partnership with Heyward Career and Technology, held its first Career Café’ for eighth-grade students on November 23. A Career Café is a modified take on a traditional career fair. Students completed a Career Interest Inventory and identified their top three career clusters. Students visited various career clusters set up in classrooms where they learned about education requirements, career possibilities and trends in the workforce related to the clusters. More than 35 local businesses and agencies participated in the Career Café.

This Week is a weekly employee newsletter published by the Richland One Office of Communications. News items and

photographs for This Week should be emailed to thisweek@richlandone.org.

The deadline to submit items for the following week’s edition is by 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday. For more information,

call the Communications Office at 231-7504.

one vision one mission one common purpose

December 8Richland One Board of School Commissioners meetingStevenson Administration Building – 7:00 p.m.Agenda posted at www.richlandone.org/schoolboard

December 11Richland One/City of Columbia MLK “Honor the Dream” Food Drive ends – Drop off canned goods and other non-perishable food items at any Richland One school or administrative building. Donations benefit Harvest Hope Food Bank.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year nominations

Nominations are being accepted for the 2016-2017 Richland One Teacher of the Year. Information on the Teacher of the Year recognition program (in-cluding guidelines and eligibility requirements), as well as the nomination form and application, are available on the Employee Intranet (www.r1in-tranet.org). Nomination forms and applications must be completed prop-erly, manually signed, scanned and emailed as attachments to Katy Watkins in the Office of Communications at katherine.watkins@richlandone.org by 5 p.m. Friday, February 19.

Acumen Leadership Development courseThe Center for Educator Quality (CEQ) is accepting applications for the

Spring 2016 Acumen Leadership Development Course for classified em-ployees. If you are interested in participating, you must submit an applica-tion and letter of reference to Chris Martinez at CEQ (mail code 582) by De-cember 15 at 3 p.m. The application packet may be downloaded from the CEQ web page; click on the second link under Resources. Click here to go to that page: http://bit.ly/1QUbEII

‘Stay Fit While You Sit’ WorkshopDo you spend most of your time at work stationary and inactive? Are you

in front of a computer, television or steering wheel for the better part of your day? Have you experienced the aches that usually accompany hours of inactivity: neck pain, back pain, exhaustion, etc? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, consider attending the “Stay Fit While You Sit” Workshop. In this free workshop you will learn simple stretches and exer-cises that can be done at work or at home to offset the negative effects of prolonged sitting.

Join instructor Ramsey Makhuli for the workshop Wednesday, December 9 from noon-1:00 p.m. in the conference room at the Cecil A. Tillis Center, 2111 Simpkins Lane. Register online for free at www.eip.sc.gov. Workshop partici-pants should wear comfortable clothing. If you have any questions, contact Ramsey Makhuli at rmakhuli@peba.sc.gov or at 737-3823.

Scholastic Book Fairs warehouse saleThe Scholastic Book Fairs holiday warehouse sale for teachers, librarians

and other educators will be held December 9-19 at 971 Harbor Drive in West Columbia. Hours are 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. December 9 (special shopping day for purchase orders, Title I and grants); 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. December 10-18 (week-days only); and 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. December 12 and December 19. For more information, call 791-7226.

Massage discounts for employeesHealing Hands Massage Services, located at 9400 Two Notch Road-Suite

F, is offering Richland One employees a one-hour Swedish or deep-tissue massage for $50. All returning clients will receive a 15 percent discount off regular prices. Gift certificates are available. To schedule an appointment, call 269-4809; be sure to mention that you are a Richland One employee. Visit the website at www.healinghandsmassageservices.com.

News&Notes•On December 2, members of NewSpring

Church presented every student at Burton-Pack Elementary School with a pair of new sneakers and a pair of socks. Church volunteers also treated school staff to coffee, doughnuts and gift cards.