Trust Is Not Soft. It’s Infrastructure. I have spent enough time in American public education to know that we are not short on diagnoses—we are short on the willingness to treat the root cause like an emergency. Chronic absenteeism. Teacher attrition. Declining family trust in public schools. Every superintendent I know can recite these numbers: nearly one in four students missing enough school […]
Wisconsin Teachers Are Powering School Change In Madison and Milwaukee last week, more than 60 educators spent their day doing something that rarely shows up in job descriptions: preparing to visit students’ homes to build trust with families. It marked the launch of WE-Lead (Wisconsin Educators Leading Family Engagement), a new partnership between the National […]
We Are Living History This February marks 100 years since Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 – an insistence, in the face of exclusion, that Black life and achievement would be studied, named, and remembered, not “overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed.” His response was to institutionalize the study and commemoration of Black history—to create structures that would ensure these stories could […]
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.
