2025-2026 STAFF RECRUITMENT & RETENTION INCENTIVE BONUS

The Irving ISD Board of Trustees generously approved a new incentive bonus for the 2025-2026 school year as proposed by Superintendent Hernandez in the most recent Board meeting, held on March 24, 2025. The Staff Recruitment and Retention Incentive Bonus will be a one-time payment for most eligible full-time, TRS benefits-eligible employees who meet eligibility requirements. 

Thanks to the dynamic leadership of our Superintendent and the Board of Trustees, local funds will be used to support District efforts to retain and recruit personnel for the upcoming school year by providing a strategic incentive bonus in the amount of $1,000 to certain qualified, returning, full-time employees for the 2025-2026 school year. The District will also provide a sign-up bonus in the amount of $1,000 for certain qualified full-time, new to Irving ISD hires that meet the same eligibility requirements of this incentive bonus.   

Eligible staff include (1) all paraprofessional staff, and (2) professional staff assigned to a work calendar of 205 days or less. 

Payments will be issued to eligible new and returning employees no later than September 30, 2025. 

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Juan Carlos Martinez, Ph.D.

Deputy Superintendent of Human Resources

Dr. Juan Carlos Martinez has been in education for twenty-seven years, and for the last twenty-one, he has proudly served Irving Independent School District and its community.

Dr. Martinez earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. He holds two Masters’ Degrees in Bilingual/ESL Education and School Administration, respectively, from Texas A & M University-Commerce. He completed his Superintendent Certification through the University of North Texas in Denton and his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Educational & Organizational Leadership at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Dr. Martinez’s research interests are focused on the areas of Organizational Change, Organizational Health, Transformational Leadership, and Theology. He is deeply committed and invested in implementing organizational health and transformational leadership practices, which he considers vital factors in attaining successful organizational and academic achievement in education.         

We take pride in providing excellent and consistent customer service for all former, current, and future employees. We serve all of our Irving ISD community through enhancing each school and department's collective strategies for recruitment and retention of life-changing educators and staff. Together, we empower staff today to excel tomorrow.