Homeroom/Teacher Assignments – It’s almost time

By now you may have seen several messages with dates and information regarding when you will hear of your child(ren)’s class and teacher assignment.  This time of year is exciting, and anxiety-producing, and people want information sometimes before it’s ready to share.  We understand and feel many of the same feelings.

Before we can post the information for the upcoming school year our district office has to complete multiple reports from the previous school year to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Additionally, all the data from the new registrations has to be entered into our student information management system (we use Aspen).  Currently, there are two years of data sitting in Aspen.  We have to wait for a data rollover before the information for the new school year will be visible to all of us (families and schools).

We received an email from the Superintendent’s office that said this rollover will happen by August 16.

We at the Heath Brook and Dewing Schools know that Aspen accounts are not yet set up for families of our preschool and kindergarten students.  For that reason we send notifications via US mail.  We can’t mail them out, though, until the rollover happens – all Tewksbury schools try to notify families on the same day.

Please have patience with us.  We know you want to know.  We are all doing everything we can to make it happen as soon as reasonably possible.

Thank you,

Terry Gerrish, Heath Brook Principal and Alexis Bosworth, Dewing Principal