High-impact family engagement is critical to any successful school improvement effort. It leads to improved academic performance and graduation rates, increased motivation and self-esteem, and lower rates of suspension and chronic absenteeism.
Parent Teacher Home Visits is a proven, high-impact family engagement strategy that aligns with a range of other educational priorities. Beyond our five non-negotiable practices, our model is highly adaptable based on local strengths, needs, and goals. Use this page to explore how the foundational practice of Parent Teacher Home Visits can support your efforts across a range of relevant school improvement topics. We invite you to contact us to dive deeper and gain support as you strategically integrate your home visit practice into your school or district’s existing priorities or initiatives.
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.