Technology Leadership and Communication (TLC)

ISA Update – Week Ending March 3, 2017

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications March 10, 2017

March 9, 2017 Digital Attendance District Leadership Training

March 6, 2017 Spring Training – Reprot Cards

March 8, 2017 Dash Board Creation- Decision Ed Training

March 10, 2017 Business Services Programming Services– Operational Status

March 10, 2017 HR Onboarding Paperless Processing – Paraprofessionals

March 10, 2017 eSchool Discipline Training

March 10, 2017 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)

March 3, 2017 ISA Management Wrap Up and Reflections

Digital Attendance

District Leadership Training

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications March 9, 2017

Rich Crishock, Eric May and John Crumbley

attended CFISD’s District Leadership Training

(DLT) on Thursday March 9, 2017. The team

brought some new technology to demonstrate.

This new Digital Attendance technology would

replace the numerous sheets of paper that are

currently used to record administrator’s

attendance.

Spring Training

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by March 6, 2017

Ann Sempe and Belinda Smith

visited ALC-East and Campbell

MS to show them new ways of

making schedule changes and

trailing of report card grades.

This is one of the first campus

visits of many that they will be

making to help create a stronger

relationship with counseling

departments in our district.

Belinda Smith, Technology Communications Facilitator

Ann Sempe

Campbell Counselors Sheri Jacob, Debbie

Dinderman, Sabrina Barnett, ISA - Ann

Sempe & Belinda Smith

Ann Sempe hosted training for elementary school

counselor’s to educate them in the eSchoolPLUS

entry of course requests for all students moving from

5th to 6th grade next year. The course request process

seems like a simple task, but in reality it takes some

human consideration to determine which class level

each student should be attending for 6th grade.

Belinda Smith, Melissa Dunne

from ALC-East, Ann Sempe

Dash Board Creation

Decision Ed Training

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by March 8, 2017

Jeff Ott from Decision Ed visited

Information Services to offer

training and advise for the

reimplementation and use of

DecisionEd products. Son

Nguyen, Neetha Chada, Donna

VanHooser, Tammie Bartkowiak,

Richard Hoffman, Belinda Smith

and Rodney White attended the

session. Thanks to Decision Ed’s

guidance new features and

reports will be available to Cy-Fair

users.

Rodney White, Manager of ISA Operations and Support

Neetha Chada Son Nguyen Jeff Ott

Tammie Bartkowiak Donna VanHooser

Dava Clark

• It was a week of Public Information Requests (PIR)

• Created a new Laserfiche form for Payroll – Direct

Deposit that will be sent to employees that request

changes to their direct deposit information.

• Assisted HR with VLOOKUP, Cognos New Hire, FMLA,

barcode on the PA

Business Services

Operational Programming Services

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by

Son Nguyen

• SQL Performance Monitor, Back-up & Restore, R&D

• Meet with Music department to understand their procedures and new

desirers.

• Install SunGard eFinancePLUS January and February Updates

• Installed the Training database for Payroll Testing

• Deployed to Production - COMPLETED

March 10, 2017

Dava Clark

Son Nguyen

Business Services

Operational Programming Services

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by March 10, 2017

Rich Crishock

• Continued working in Equifax data exchange

project.

Test web app for reporting on Digital Attendance

recording.

• Did the first Alpha testing of DLT Badge-In at the

Berry Center. Everyone is excited about the

potential.

Rich Crishock

Dorothy Tong

Mass email program for Attendance Officers.

• Emails will include 2 reports attached.

• List of student’s with emails send to their guardians with attached attendance

records.

• List of student’s who were not send emails due to invalid guardian

email addresses.

• Add an audit trail to the Attendance Tracking system of emails sent to guardians.

• Assisted Christina Arroyo-Giner with importing XML file from PIEMS.

Dorothy Tong

Business Services

Operational Programming Services

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by March 10, 2017

Donna Vanhooser

• Posted 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade math DPMs.

• Adjusted the graduation labels for Cy-Springs

• Attended Decision Ed Cognos dash board training

• Pulled elementary assessments for Christina

Arroyo-Giner

• Special request from Melanie Ceynar for Dan

McIlduff – total count of district dyslexia students

and subtotals by special ed and general ed.

Neetha Chada

• Continued development and changes required by the

Federal government to the Conflict of Interest (CIQ)

system.

• Had a meeting the Personal Graduation Plan (PGP)

committee and with Rodney White to discuss changes to

PGP.

Neetha Chada

Donna Vanhooser

HR Onboarding

Paperless Processing - Paraprofessionals

Status as of:

March 10, 2017

Phase One

Project

Scope and

definition

Phase Three

System

Testing and

Acceptance

Phase Two

Workflow

Processing

and Data

Mapping

Phase One

Project

Scope and

Definition

HR OnBoarding

Paperless Processing Paraprofessional

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by

Weekly Project Status Meeting Update.

The meeting began with a demo of the current Onboarding

process for the staff that have not yet witnessed the amazing

new Onboarding.

The timing of the project was outlined and the collection the

new pages will be on Friday March 10th 2017. Work will

began on March 13th 2017

Project Status: 19% Complete

March 8, 2017

eSchool Discipline Training

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Norma Blenderman, PEIMS CoordinatorPosted by

Pat Maldonado with Information

Services and Applications (ISA)

trained Carol Benitez from Hamilton

Middle School on entering discipline

data into eSchoolPlus Wednesday,

March 8, 2017.

Pat also provided Carol with

documentation from TEA Data

Standards regarding PEIMS

discipline procedures and codes.

She stressed the importance of data

accuracy reported to TEA.

March 10, 2017

Nora Careta Dorothy Tong

Pat Maldonado Carol Benitez

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by March 10, 2017

Norma Blenderman and Patricia

Maldonado attended an

OnDataSuite 2015-2016 CRCD

Review on Tuesday,

March 7, 2017.

The workshop focused on

requirements for submitting to

CRDC. The CRDC collects data on

key education and civil rights issues

in our public schools. Most of the

data reported comes from PEIMS

but some additional data files must

be created and loaded to

OnDataSuite (ODS).

Using ODS makes CRDC reporting

EASY!

Norma Blenderman, PEIMS Coordinator

Norma Blenderman Patricia Maldonado

Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)

ISA Management

Wrap Up

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by

Spring Break is that time of year

that we pause to recharge our

batteries. I also think it is

important to reflect to ensure

that we finish strong and on

target. The 2017 school year

will end in two short months. It

seems like this year has been a

sprint rather than a marathon. I

am looking forward to a little

downtime, and then coming

back to finish this sprint we

started eight months ago.

- John Crumbley

March 3, 2017

John Crumbley

ISA Student Focus

Wrap Up

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by March 10, 2017Rodney White, Manager of ISA Operations and Support

Rodney White

As this week before spring break ends, I’m reflecting on accomplishments. It

feels good to complete both important and more mundane tasks before taking

some time off.

- Rodney White

ISA PEIMS Support

Wrap Up

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by March 10, 2017

This has been a very challenging week for me. I have relied

heavily on my team. Renee Peel, Marta Bott, and Pat Maldonado

continue to perform at the highest level and ensure that all PEIMS

procedures and processes are completed.

Thank you TEAM! Enjoy a much deserved Spring Break!

~ Norma Blenderman

Norma Blenderman

Norma Blenderman, PEIMS Coordinator

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

~ Jamie Paolinetti

ISA Business Services

Wrap Up

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by March 10, 2017Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and Applications

Frankie Jackson shared with us the great time she had at TASBO in one of

her sessions with Juliet Funt.

Juliet Funt spoke about White Space at work. One of her points “Is there

anything you can let go of?” Just so happens, the day of DLT, there was

an issue with Purchase Orders. My first reaction was to drive back to the

office and take care of the issue. Well, John Crumbley helped me decide to

stay at DLT and “let it go” to my staff and they did great. Son Nguyen and

Dava Clark worked through the issue keeping John and myself informed

until the issued was corrected. A great lesson learned.

- Eric May

Eric May

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