Dr. Jon Andes, Superintendent
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High School Assessments (HSA)
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Calendars
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Closings/Delays
For information on closings and delays, please refer to the follow sources:
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Worcester County Public Schools continues to monitor the H1N1 flu and work collaboratively with the Worcester County Helath Department. Click on the link to access a Parent's Guide on H1N1: Guide for Parents. For more information on the H1N1 Flu, please visit the following Web site resources:
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PowerSchool
PowerSchool is a highly-secure student information system that manages a wealth of student records such as attendance, students grades, and teacher comments. With a unique and assigned user name and password, parents with children in Grades 6 through 12 have parental access to view their child's information. New parents to the system are required to obtain their user name and password at the front office of their child's school.
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SchoolMessenger
SchoolMessenger is an automated notification system that telephones enrolled parents when there is a school closing, delay, early dismissal, or important message. Parents will receive enrollment forms from their school and are required to complete and submit them if they choose to participate.
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June 8 is the Last Day of School
The last day of school for Worcester County Public School students will be Friday, June 8, 2012. Thursday and Friday, June 7 and 8, will be half-days for all students. Lunch time will be scheduled into the half-days. Each school will inform parents of dismissal times, and bus transportation will operate accordingly.
Worcester County Public Schools adds three inclement-weather days onto the end of its school calendar. If the days are not used, they are subtracted from the end of the school year. Although schools were closed on August 29, 2011, due to the effects of Hurricane Irene, the Interim State Superintendent of Schools approved a waiver request from the Board of Education for this closure. As a result, three days were subtracted from the end of the 2011-2012 school calendar, making the last day of school on June 8.
Click on the link to view the modified calendar: 2011-2012 Calendar
Bevilacqua Named 2012 Teacher of the Year
"I am truly honored and humbled by this award," said Social Studies Teacher Tony Bevilacqua of Worcester Technical High School, after being named the 2012 Worcester County Teacher of the Year at the school system's annual Teacher of the Year Banquet, held on March 30 at the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel in Ocean City. "I am truly honored to be a part of the class of teachers who are representing Worcester County Public Schools and the Teacher of the Year Program." (Above: Board of Education President Robert Rothermel, Jr., left, and Superintendent Dr. Jon Andes presented Tony Bevilacqua with the Worcester County Teacher of the Year Trophy.)
This year's 2012 class of teachers is represented by 14 teachers -- one from each school -- who competed for the coveted title. (See all
school-level Teachers of the Year below.) The 2012 Worcester County Teacher of the Year serves as the school system's ambassador for a one-year cycle and advances to the Maryland State Teacher of the Year competition. The 2012 state title-holder will be named by the Maryland State Department of Education in October. (Right: Worcester Technical High School Teachers Floyd Azbell and Rachel Watson congratulate Bevilacqua.)
2011 Worcester County Teacher of the Year Jennifer Sills of Snow Hill High School 
addressed the record-crowd of close to 380 people prior to Bevilacqua being named. After sharing her experiences while serving as the school system's ambassador, Sills assured her successor: "You will have frequent opportunities to put us on the map!" Sills also acknowledged that she had become a better teacher because of her experiences as the 2011 Worcester County Teacher of the Year. (Left: 2011 Worcester County Teacher of the Year Jennifer Sills passed the symbolic torch to Tony Bevilacqua at the 25th Teacher of the Year Banquet.)
The banquet marked the Teacher of the Year Program's 25th anniversary. In addition to the 
record crowd, a record number of former Teachers of the Year were in attendance (20 of the 21 former title holders). Each former Worcester County Teacher of the Year was presented with a bouquet of red roses from Superintendent Dr. Jon Andes. A candle was lit in memory of those former Teachers of the Year who had passed-on. (Above: Twenty former Teachers of the Year gathered for a photograph with Superintendent Dr. Jon Andes, who is retiring, effective June 30, 2012.)
For more information on Tony Bevilacqua, click on the link: 2012 Worcester County TOY
Below are the 14 school-level Teachers of the Year:
Pictured from left to right are: Deborah Angelonga, Cedar Chapel Special School; Mary Berquist, Stephen Decatur High School; Tony Bevilacqua, Worcester Technical High School; and Undrea Blake, Pocomoke Middle School.
Pictured from left to right are: Amy Braciszewski, Showell Elementary School; Jennifer Dale, Buckingham Elementary School; Kirsten Danisavich, Ocean City Elementary School; and Gretchen Hancock, Stephen Decatur Middle School.
Pictured from left to right are: Patricia Hultquist, Pocomoke Elementary School; Leanne Scarborough, Snow Hill Middle School; Brenda Short, Snow Hill High School; and Rebecca Stevens, Pocomoke High School.
Pictured from left to right are: Kelly Thaw, Berlin Intermediate School and Connie West, Snow Hill Elementary School.
Last Update: 4/25/2012
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