In my work with school districts, I have witnessed firsthand how leaders continue to think of family engagement as an optional gesture; how manifestations of white supremacist thinking are exerted through controlling student and community dialogues and even how key community organizing efforts for teacher training become thwarted and backburned. This inevitably allows white dominate school cultures to maintain power and control.
Drop in to Our Virtual Office for PTHV Week Planning Support Has planning your PTHV Week got you feeling overwhelmed? In need of a thought partner as you develop your plan to celebrate? We’ve got you covered! Beginning May 12, 2022, PTHV’s Program Director Rachel Brice will host virtual office hours on a bi-weekly basis […]
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 PTHV Week Mini-Grant Application Window Is Open To commemorate our 25th Anniversary, Parent Teacher Home Visits is launching our inaugural National PTHV Week from September 19-24, 2022. To support the planning and implementation of local celebrations, we will award five (5) schools/districts with up to $1,000 each in grant funding. For this grant application, […]
PTHV Week in Denver – A Case Study Trevon Brandhorst is the senior manager for family empowerment and academic partnerships for Denver Public Schools. Denver is a notable partner in that they were the very first to adopt a Parent Teacher Home Visits Week. They’ve really served as our model for what national PTHV is […]
PTHV Week is a special observance for which we’re inviting our partnering schools and districts from across the country to celebrate 25 years of authentic trust-building home visits with us.
On July 28, Parent Teacher Home Visits welcomed parents, educators, and family engagement advocates to engage in a candid conversation about gains, losses, and lessons learned during the pandemic.
A New Framework to Organize Authentic Home-School Partnerships We are pleased to offer a new guide, Trusting Relationships First: A Toolkit for Healing and Recovery, for educators and schools to use as they welcome students and families back to in-person learning for the 2021-2022 school year. To fully heal and recover from the unprecedented, concurrent events […]
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.
