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EMS Crunches the Numbers
Posted 12/8/2005
With 234 university students volunteering as tutors and 4,670 Hartford school children receiving services, Educational Main Street (EMS) is enjoying a highly successful fall semester.
EMS has about 30 more student tutors this semester than it did during the fall of 2004, said EMS Director Mary Christensen. Such growth enables the program to increase the scope of its services to Hartford school children, giving them a richer experience, she said.
Here are some other significant numbers from EMS for the fall 2005 semester:
EMS has about 30 more student tutors this semester than it did during the fall of 2004, said EMS Director Mary Christensen. Such growth enables the program to increase the scope of its services to Hartford school children, giving them a richer experience, she said.
Here are some other significant numbers from EMS for the fall 2005 semester:
- 16 years of service to university and public school students
- 13 EMS Tutor Coordinators working 15 hours per week
- 9 Hartford partner schools
- 234 university tutors
- 820 bus stops at partner schools
- 5,616 tutoring hours
- $84,240 worth of in-kind tutoring services
- 3 new, improved training booklets
- 24 hours of training sessions
- 10-minute new online video
- 85 public school teachers hosting tutors
- 35 university volunteers
- 50 students in two new initiatives
- 40 university faculty members providing incentives to tutor
- 6 after-school literacy programs
- 234 copies of Tutor Talk newsletter distributed
- 23 nominations/essays for "Tutor of the Semester"
- 1,800 newsletters distributed
- 250 holiday calendars
and . . . - 4,670 public school children receiving services!
