DOE Announces Half Day
The Department of Education is informing parents of the first of eight (8) scheduled half days for Wednesday, September 24, 2014.
September 8, 2014Updated: September 8, 2014
By KUAM News
By KUAM Newsby Sabrina Salas Matanane
Guam - The Department of Education is informing parents of the first of eight (8) scheduled half days for Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The half days were built into the school calendar to provide additional professional development time for teachers while meeting the required 180 days of instruction in Public Law 28-45.
The additional professional development time provides all public schools designated time to focus on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, formative assessment results for students and intervention strategies to best help students that fall below grade level expectations. GDOE Superintendent Jon Fernandez wanted to see the additional time built into the calendar. “Each year a number of schools request for half days at various times of the year to meet their needs,” said Fernandez. “By including the days in the calendar, schools no longer need to make those requests and everyone is on the same schedule.
Parents are asked to observe the time that the school gates will be opened so that students are supervised when they arrive.
School Year 2014-2015 Scheduled Half Days:
School Schedules for Half Days:
Guam - The Department of Education is informing parents of the first of eight (8) scheduled half days for Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The half days were built into the school calendar to provide additional professional development time for teachers while meeting the required 180 days of instruction in Public Law 28-45.
The additional professional development time provides all public schools designated time to focus on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, formative assessment results for students and intervention strategies to best help students that fall below grade level expectations. GDOE Superintendent Jon Fernandez wanted to see the additional time built into the calendar. “Each year a number of schools request for half days at various times of the year to meet their needs,” said Fernandez. “By including the days in the calendar, schools no longer need to make those requests and everyone is on the same schedule.
Parents are asked to observe the time that the school gates will be opened so that students are supervised when they arrive.
School Year 2014-2015 Scheduled Half Days:
| September 24, 2014 | October 29, 2014 | December 3, 2014 | January 28, 2015 |
| February 25, 2015 | March 25, 2015 | April 29, 2015 | May 27, 2015 |
| Gates Opened | Breakfast | Classes Begin | Dismissal | |
| Elementary Schools | 10:00 AM | 10:00 – 10:45 AM | 11:00 AM | 2:00 PM |
| Middle Schools | 10:30 AM | 10:30 – 11:15 AM | 11:30 AM | 3:30 PM |
| JFKHS/SoHS/THS | 8:45 AM | 8:45 – 9:30 AM | 9:45 AM | 1:15 PM |
| GWHS/OHS/SSHS | 9:45 AM | 9:45 – 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM | 2:45 PM |
| JPTAS | 9:00 AM | 9:00 – 9:45 AM | 10:00 AM | 1:00 PM |