Partnerships may be of many combinations of school type, i.e. elementary, middle and high school. Each partnership was required to submit a written statement of the project's stated goals and objectives. At least two objectives are required of each partnership. The first must be related to having students become more aware and more tolerant of cultural, racial or ethnic differences. The second must relate to a curricular objective for all students in which growth in a skill is examined.
Partnerships file written assessments at the end of the grant period.
All assessments are read and summaries are entered into CREC's database. Eighth grade Spanish students at Silas Deane paired up with fourth graders from D.F. Burns to go on field trips and to learn more about each other. One of the first visits was to Old Wethersfield, giving the Silas Deane students an opportunity to show off their town with a walking tour of historical landmarks and a trip to the historical society. Students saw a colonial cemetery and churned their own butter during the tea time held by the Historical Society. The D.F. Burns students then reciprocated the Silas Deane students' display of their town when they visited the Spanish grocery store El Mercado , prepared a traditional Spanish meal and sang traditional Christmas carols in Spanish.