Student Services - Westborough Public Schools

From the Director

May 2025

Dear Caregivers & Families:

Welcome, Spring! This season brings new growth and blooms, and it’s also a time when our students are fully immersed in their learning. Between now and June, they will engage in assessments, skill development, and social activities.

The Student Services team, in collaboration with general education colleagues, uses a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach to lesson planning and instruction. This ensures we meet the unique needs and learning styles of all students at WPS. Helping your child understand their individual learning style will support their success throughout their educational journey.

Think summer! You should have received a registration link in your email. If you have met with your child’s Special Education Team and Extended School Year program has been recommended as a service in their IEP, we will have received that information from your Student Services Coordinator which has then generated an email to you with a registration link. Once you receive your registration link, please register as soon as possible confirming your child’s attendance so we can plan educational programming to best meet your child's needs. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s liaison or your school’s Special Education Coordinator directly for clarification.

Program dates: Intensive Program - July 7 - August 7th | Moderate Program - July 7- August 6th. Please note that there are some location changes anticipated due to summer construction projects..

Preschool age > Westborough Early Childhood Center
K-3 > Fales Elementary School
4-6 > Mill Pond School
7-8 > Mill Pond School
9-12 > Mill Pond School
BORO students > BORO Program

IEP 2.0 has been positive by all accounts. You should anticipate receiving the new IEP document in accordance with your child’s Annual Review or Three (3) Year Re-evaluation date. If you have questions regarding IEP 2.0, or general questions regarding your child’s special education services, please contact your child’s respective Special Education Liaison/Student Services Coordinator. Please be sure to review this WPS Parent Communication (3.14.24), as well as visit the DESE New IEP Implementation webpage online prior to your child’s first IEP Meeting.

The Student Services Department is grateful for the commitment, collaboration, and feedback that we receive from caregivers and families to further inform and improve our practice. If questions arise, please contact your child’s homeroom teacher, special education liaison, counselor, or Student Services Coordinator. For your reference, here is a direct link to the annual Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards.

A core value of the Westborough Public Schools is celebrating and supporting the diversity and unique learning styles of all students in the WPS learning community.

Best,

Sherrie

CHILD FIND: The Westborough Public Schools Child Find procedure mandated by state and Federal law in accordance with Federal law IDEA (formerly known as PL94-142) provides special education programs designed to meet the needs of children who are attending public schools as well as to support children who are attending private school at private expense and whose parents reside in Westborough. A screening and/or evaluation is provided to children ages 3-21 who are unable to progress effectively in a general education program due to suspected disability consisting of a developmental delay, intellectual sensory (hearing, vision, deaf/blind), neurological, Autism, emotional, communication, physical, specific learning disability, multiple or health impairment.