School Street
Programs to help students in the partner schools stay in school and go on to post secondary educations.

Educational Main Street Bookstores - Grades K-6
     EMS Bookstores are located in the partner school libraries and are filled with free, age-appropriate, culturally-diverse books for students to "purchase" with school "bucks" earned for good attendance, good academic achievement or good behavior. The purpose of the Bookstores is to build family libraries and promote family reading. The Bookstores are overseen by the school libraries and are stocked using funds from Educational Main Street.
Outcome of the Librarians' Alliance.

Guest Reader Day - Grades K-6
In conjunction with its partner elementary schools, Educational Main Street hosts, in early June, a series of Guest Reader Days to celebrate reading. Each school sends 25 students, via the University of Hartford shuttle bus, to the Esphyr Slobodkinia Urguhart Children's Reading Room, where they are treated to lunch and to a program that includes University of Hartford senior staff and faculty reading to the children. The children selected by their schools to participate in the visits are chosen based on academic achievement during the school year. The books that are read are signed and donated to a partner schools library.

E-Mentoring - Grades 7-12
This mentoring project between Fox Middle School, Weaver High School and the University uses computers and web cams to establish live hook-ups among the participating students. Fox and Weaver students use the web cameras on computers located in their school libraries, while university students use the web cams on EMS office computers. Students ask questions about college, or can get help with a quick homework question.
Outcome of the Technology Alliance.

Shadowing Days - Grades 9-12
Shadowing Days provide Weaver High School students interested in a particular major the opportunity to shadow University of Hartford students enrolled in that major for a day of classes, followed by lunch in the Cafe or the Commons.
Outcome of the Allied Health/Education/Engineering Alliances.

Tutors - Grades K-12
Educational Main Street offers to partner school students on-on-one or small group tutoring during a school day and during EMS after-school programs.

Scholarships
Academic - Grade 12
Scholars of the Month Awards - Grades 11-12
Weaver Black History Month Book Awards - Grade 12
Weaver High School Finance Academy $1000 Scholarships - Grade 12
Weaver High School Allied Health Academy $1000 Scholarship - Grade 12
Program - Grades K-12
Hartt Community Division Music Scholarships in voice, instruments, Suzuki, or chorus.
Summer Place Summer Camp, 10 Scholarships.

New Student Orientation - Grades 7 & 9
Educational Main Street distributes the Fox Middle School Transition Handbook to all incoming Lewis Fox Middle School seventh graders during their spring orientation. The Weaver High School Transition Handbook is given to that school's incoming ninth graders during their orientation in the fall.
The handbooks contain valuable information on school rules, policies and key staff, a calendar of events - all to help students and their parents ease the transition to the new schools.

Literary Magazine - Grades K-16+
The EMS Literary Magazine is an annual project of the EMS English Alliance. The magazine is a compilation of example of writing, photography, and drawings by partner school students, faculty/staff and parents, and by University of Hartford students, faculty and staff. All contributors are honored during a Recognition Dinner held to coincide with the magazines's publication.
Outcome of the English Alliance.

Reading Clubs - Grades 1 & 2
EMS sponsors after-school reading clubs in the elementary partner schools for students in grades 1 and 2 who need additional help in reading. EMS tutors work with their students two afternoons a week, from 2:30-4 p.m., on their comprehension, phonics and oral reading skills.

Book Groups - Grades 7-12
To encourage reading, EMS sponsors a series of Book Groups at Fox and Weaver. The after-school book groups read and discuss a common book. The EMS tutors act as mentors to the groups. A year-end, on-campus "Meet the Author" day is held to celebrate reading.

Educational Main Street Academy at Quirk Middle School - Grades 7 & 8
The Educational Main Street Academy is a four-year-long program designed to support those qualifying, pre-selected seventh graders at Quirk Middle School eligible to receive a Hunt Scholarship to the University of Hartford. University of Hartford students serve as mentors to these bright students as they make their way towards college. The students participate in a variety of activities, centered around the theme of community, held three days a week after school on the University of Hartford Campus.

Educational Main Street Summer Academy - Grades 9-11
Educational Main Street sponsors a free, week-long, summer program for college-bound Weaver students. The students attend courses representative of all nine University of Hartford schools and colleges. Their week culminates with an overnight stay in the dorms. University of Hartford Students serve as their mentors.

Homework Clubs - Grades 7-12
University of Hartford tutors work in after-school homework clubs at the middle and high schools to assist the students with questions about homework or particular subject areas.

Transitional Programs - Grades 1-12
The Transitional Programs consist of varying projects designed to support partner school students as they graduate from elementary to middle school, from middle to high school, and from high school to college.