New District Website Launch

The Mansfield ISD website received a digital makeover this week to bring the district and department-level pages up to the same design and management standards as the campus websites. The new design and management uses the finalsite web software content management system. In May, 2011 the School Board approved the purchase agreement to put the website redesign project wheels in motion.

Following a comprehensive design and training schedule, the campus websites went live in April, 2012. After the campus sites were up and running, MISD Web Services Coordinator, Alicia Alford, moved on to the district and department redesign project.

A Website Redesign Committee was established and met to discuss the aspects of the district website that worked well in addition to things that needed improvement. Among the areas for improvement:

• Header (navigation bar) needed to be compatible with all platforms
• More consistency at lower level pages
• Cleaner, more updated look similar to campus redesign
• Mobile-friendly design and functionality

After the new design parameters were established, the redesign and content transfers began in November, 2012 and the site is ready for show @ www.mansfieldisd.org

Frequent users of the MISD website should notice some major changes and will hopefully be pleased with the new look. If you've bookmarked specific pages such as Skyward or Cafeteria Menus, you'll need to update those bookmarks to the new pages.

2011 by the numbers and interesting facts

Image by DrBacchus via FlickrAs the 2010-11 school year comes to a close and we head into the summer months, we would like to share some of the more interesting facts and figures from the District:

• We currently have 4 construction projects representing approximately 750,000 square feet of space.
• The Mansfield ISD Education Foundation has given over $2,000,000 in the form of educator grants to our teachers since 1998.
• We have approximately 75 applicants for every principal job that opens in our District.
• In the last 2 years, approximately 70% of our principals, directors, and coordinators level positions have been filled with internal candidates.
• 137 student teachers were placed this year with 213 cooperating teachers.
• We average 125 applicants for every assistant principal opening and have had as many as 182 applicants for a high school assistant principal job.
• On average we have 300 teacher applicants for every open position.
• We have 55 teachers going through an administrator's training class taught by Human Resources; so far 3 of our assistant principal positions were filled with these interns.
• 114 scholarships totaling $84,850 were awarded in the 2011 Mansfield ISD Community Multi-Scholarship program.
• The Mansfield ISD website has had over 4,900,000 hits since August 2010.
• There are over 110 languages spoken in Mansfield ISD other than English.
• The Technology Department handles approximately 150,000 e-mails per day.
• Generally speaking, it takes $1,000,000 per day to operate Mansfield ISD.
• Our Transportation Department carries 22,390 passengers per day traveling over 2.5 million miles per year.
• Our Student Nutrition Department  served 776,848 breakfasts, 2,892,222 lunches, and 3,093,032 cartons of milk.
• A staffing survey by the Texas Association of School Boards shows that Mansfield ISD has 512 fewer employees than comparible districts across the state.
• On average, MISD grows in enrollment by the size of a middle school each year.
• Mansfield ISD has 5,350,967 square feet of air conditioned space and 800 mowable acres of land.
• Mansfield ISD used 55,828,455 KwH of electricity last year - enough to power all the electricity needs for the homes of each of our students and staff for one year (approximately 37,000 homes).
• Mansfield ISD operates under budget.

Pictures of the Week (May 9-13)

Check out some of the cool things that went on in Mansfield ISD last week:

Mary Jo Sheppard - Field Day

The teachers and students of Mary Jo Sheppard Elementary had a blast during Field Day on May 13. Events included a shoe-kicking race, 50-yard dash and more!

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2011 MISD Employee Recognition Banquet

The annual MISD Employee Recognition Banquet honors Retirees, Teachers of the Year, Shining Star Recipients and employees receiving 20, 25 and 30 Year Service Awards.

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Cross Timbers - Blessed by a Timberwolf (Round 1) 
Cross Timbers students competed in several categories to win the privilege of “Blessing” a volunteer staff member with a pie to the face.

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Campus Candids

This new album holds a random collection of pictures that get sent to the Communications Department. Many different campuses and events will be featured.

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2011 Student Art Show (Updated)

The Elementary Art Show (grades K-4) was held May 9 - May 12, 2011, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. The reception was held 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Thursday, May 12 in the Commons Area.

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