Update on 2008-09 Heartland Directory

The 2008-09 Heartland directory will be sent to your school in the next two weeks. Each school and administration office will receive two copies. Additional copies may be requested and will be distributed as supplies last. Superintendents will also receive a copy of the directory at their next AEA Administrators meeting in November.

This year the Heartland directory has only an alphabetical listing of our employees with their current phone numbers because the phone extensions for employees in five of our offices will be changing in the coming weeks and months. To produce a full product would have been futile since over half of the numbers would have been incorrect within weeks.

By January 2009, Heartland will have converted the agency’s phone system to one VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) system which will allow all employees in Heartland offices to be on the same phone network and will give each employee a five-digit extension. Having one system will make our phones more efficient.

We will be sending an updated (staff only) insert in January with the updated phone extensions and work group placement for all employees. In the meantime, as we change over, please consult the online staff directory at http://staffdirectory.aea11.k12.ia.us/ to find the most up-to-date phone numbers.

For financial and environmental reasons, this will be the last year that Heartland sends out a directory in print form.