Black History Month: A Call to Resist This month marks our nation’s annual celebration of Black History Month, but “celebration” feels more challenging this year. We are only days removed from the release of the videos depicting the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers, hearkening us back to what […]
The Results Are In During the 2021-22 school year, educators from 401 school sites across the United States—and Canada—conducted 30,168 Parent Teacher Home Visits. What’s more, we’re thrilled to announce we trained 2,390 new teachers and school staff in the PTHV model. Details
PTHV Week Celebration and Awards On Nov. 2, 2022, Parent Teacher Home Visits bestowed eight awards during a virtual celebration of the first national PTHV Week. We launched the week-long observance to raise awareness of the power of home visits and to encourage schools to conduct as many visits as possible during the week, which […]
New Board Leadership at Parent Teacher Home Visits Parent Teacher Home Visits is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members of our national board of directors: Dr. Chrishirella Sutton, a clinical assistant professor, and Helen Westmoreland, family engagement director at National PTA. The new organizational leaders will play a key role in leading […]
Join Us for a #LearningTuesdays Webinar During PTHV Week Parent Teacher Home Visits & the Power of Trusting Relationships: 25 Years of Impact September 20, 2022 | 3-4:30 PM ET Presented by The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Twenty-five years ago, parent and community organizers joined forces with educators to pilot a relational home visit model, Parent […]
PTHV Week Communications and Evaluation Strategies This week, we hosted the second of four planned sessions to help schools design their very first PTHV Week. Running September 19 – 24, 2022, this special observance will be filled with celebration and intensified efforts to conduct Parent Teacher Home Visits. In this session, we covered communications planning […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested public education like nothing else in recent memory. That it was the backdrop to intensified awareness of racial injustice in America made the past year all the more agonizing. Invariably, reopening schools will require healing, rebuilding relationships, new learning, recovering the best of what was lost, and re-establishing the sacred […]
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.
