- Aledo ISD
- Employee Resources
- Elevating Greatness - Employee Wellness and Benefits
Wellness Opportunities
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Walking/Exercise Groups
Everyone knows that exercise is a great way to keep your body healthy. But evidence also supports that exercise is critical to keeping your mind healthy too. Exercise improves sleep, increases energy levels, and reduces stress. Time to move!
Start your own walking group or join one that already exists - it's a great way to exercise your mind and body.
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Practice Mindfulness
Mindfulness helps individuals to cope with stress, form better relationships and improve quality of life. Research suggests that practicing mindfulness can reduce stress, reduce chronic pain, increase immunity and decrease general anxiety. Click here for mindfulness exercises shared by the Mayo Clinic.
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Video/Audio Relaxation
Relaxation techniques can reduce stress and bring a better quality of life. Using relaxation techniques can often help to reduce the effects of stress on both the mind and body. Click here to visit a site with visual relaxation links.
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Calming Phone Apps
The increased presence of technology in our lives brings both convenience and stress. However, there is no shortage of phone apps available to support the movement to reduce that stress and bring calm. Click here for the 12 best calming apps to relax, destress and clear your mind.
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Coloring Pages
We’ve known for generations that kids take well to coloring, but research on the benefits for adults is more recent. It is now believed that adult coloring has the ability to relax the fear center in the brain, the amygdala. Coloring can induce the same state as meditating by reducing restless thoughts, generating mindfulness and quietness in an otherwise overactive mind. Find virtual coloring pages here and here.
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Yoga
Yoga incorporates breathing, meditation, and poses all intended to encourage relaxation and reduce stress. Practicing yoga comes with many benefits for physical and mental health, all supported by science. Here are some online stretching and yoga resources:
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Calm Rooms
A calm room offers time and space (maybe in-person, maybe virtually) for individuals to reflect and employ breathing techniques and meditation strategies in an effort to manage emotions, feelings, and potentially even physical symptoms like elevated heart rate or blood pressure or hyperventilation. Click here for virtual calm rooms.
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In-person Stress Debriefing
Small group activity led by a certified facilitator intended to take participants through an evidence-based, scripted conversation on managing stress. Please contact your school counselor or executive director of student services Scott Kessel at skessel@aledoisd.org to discuss options.
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In-Person Individual Counseling Session
One-on-one session with an AISD staff member who serves the district as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Please contact your campus counselor or executive director of student services Scott Kessel at skessel@aledoisd.org to discuss options.
Employee Benefits
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Employee Crisis Fund
The Employee Crisis Fund was approved in 2015 to provide a source of financial assistance to Aledo ISD employees who are facing an emergency situation and are unable to handle immediate short term financial obligation(s) in which the applicant has fallen behind as a result of the crisis. The Crisis Fund is funded by the Aledo Education Foundation and Reading Friends.
Click here for more information on the Employee Crisis Fund and for instructions on submitting an application. Click here to go straight to the Employee Crisis Fund application.
Please email Sherry Taylor in Human Resources with any questions at staylor@aledoisd.org.
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Sick Leave Bank
Please click here for information on the Employee Sick Leave Bank that provides paid sick leave bank days to members of the bank who are unable to perform the duties of their position due to a catastrophic illness or injury and who have exhausted all paid leave.
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Retirement Savings Plans
For 403(b) Plan Information, click here.
A 403(b) is a retirement savings plan generally offered by public schools and other tax-exempt organizations that allows employees to make contributions on a pretax or Roth basis to help fill the retirement income gap. While your TRS pension may be enough to pay your expenses when you first retire, your reduced monthly income may not be enough to cover costs from factors like medical bills, taxes, or your desired standard of living. Please see the attached flyer for information regarding Aledo ISD's 403(b) provider. Click here for the RAMS 403(b) Savings Plan Flyer
For 457(b) FICA Alternative Plan Information, click here.
Aledo I.S.D. has implemented an IRC Section 3121 Social Security Alternative 457 Retirement Plan for all employees not eligible for TRS; including temporary, seasonal or part-time employees. Like TRS, the 457(b) plan has tax-advantaged benefits. Please see the attached flyers that summarize the information regarding this Plan.
- Click here for the FICA Alternative Plan and Trust flyer
- Click here for the RAMS 457(b) Savings Plan
If you have any questions, please contact Michele Davis in the Business Office.
- Click here for the FICA Alternative Plan and Trust flyer
Employee Assistance Program
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The new Aledo ISD EAP offers someone to talk to and resources to consult whenever and wherever needed. The program is free to all employees and immediate family members, regardless of whether other district benefits are taken or not. Support pieces include: confidential emotional support, work-life solutions, legal guidance, financial resources, and more!
The district would like to thank the Aledo Education Foundation for its support in sponsoring this Employee Assistance Program for Aledo ISD employees!
When you are ready to use this offering for the first time, you simply go to the Employee Assistance Program website at www.guidanceresources.com.
On this website, you will see two tabs, LOGIN and REGISTER. First-time users will need to select REGISTER.
- ORGANIZATIONAL WEB ID – you will enter OneAmerica6 (it is not case sensitive)
- COMPANY NAME – you will type in Aledo and submit
You are now on the Registration Profile page
- Create your user name and a password per the site's specifications
- Complete a short email address verification and create security questions in case you forget a username or password in the future.
- Click your age category
- Click the box that you have read the terms
- Click submit, and you are all set!
Preview what all the Aledo ISD EAP has to offer here:
