Andy Coons: Mr. Coons Will Be Your Dad at School I have two reasons for being engaged with Parent Teacher Home Visits for many years—one’s personal and one’s professional. I work for the National Education Association (NEA), and we have a long organizational history with PTHV. I direct the Center for Professional Excellence and Student […]
Kirinda Anderson: I’m Going to Say Yes as Long as I Can Say Yes I’ve always wanted to go back to my daughter’s second-grade teacher, Mrs. Pearson, and ask her what made her do home visits. I know why I said yes. I said yes because, as a parent and a woman, I was entering […]
Nick Faber: There’s No Money for That Parent Teacher Home Visits is celebrating 25 years of building trusting relationships between schools and families. To commemorate our Silver Anniversary, we will share the stories of close friends, partners, and allies who have helped make PTHV what it is today. Watch this space regularly to see more […]
Tyler Post: I Don’t Know What You’re Doing but Keep Going This is my 26th year in education. About six years ago, I was a teacher and dean at a Washoe County School District alternative school, working with students and families who often had a history of negative interactions and experiences with the education system. […]
John Nachtsheim: I’ve Never Believed in Anything More Than This I learned of Parent Teacher Home Visits through a colleague of mine. It was 2014, and I was working as a social worker in a middle school up in Duluth, Minnesota. As a staff, we were working on ways to engage our families in our […]
Christina Carlucci: Stop, Pause, and Listen Parent Teacher Home Visits is celebrating 25 years of building trusting relationships between schools and families. To commemorate our Silver Anniversary, we will share the stories of close friends, partners, and allies who have helped make PTHV what it is today. Watch this space regularly to see more “impact […]
Gretchen Viglione: It’s Not a Job. It’s a Mission. I started teaching in the Sacramento City Unified School District in 1998. I had been teaching for almost 10 years when Parent Teacher Home Visits came to our school through another teacher who had come from a different district. At that time, I was pretty much […]
Jonathan Raymond: One Plus One Equals Four Parent Teacher Home Visits is celebrating 25 years of building trusting relationships between schools and families. To commemorate our Silver Anniversary, we will share the stories of close friends, partners, and allies who have helped make PTHV what it is today. Watch this space regularly to see more […]
Katrina Branch: Home Visits Worked for This Community Home visits came into my life at a very trying time. I was fighting for custody of my sister’s children. I was fighting to keep them together. I was fighting to get on a lease to prevent them from being evicted. When the note came home in […]
Don Diehl: It Was Total Chaos, and It Was Perfect Parent Teacher Home Visits is celebrating 25 years of building trusting relationships between schools and families. To commemorate our Silver Anniversary, we will share the stories of close friends, partners, and allies who have helped make PTHV what it is today. Watch this space regularly […]
PTHV advances student success and school improvement by leveraging relationships, research, and a national network of partners to advance evidence-based practices in relational home visits within a comprehensive family engagement strategy.
PTHV is a nonprofit grassroots network that must raise its operating budget every year. Like the local home visit projects we help, our network is sustained by collaboration.
