Gina Martinez-Keddy: That “Can Do” Energy Draws Me in Closer Every Day I grew up in the barrio of Chino, California. The city was divided into two communities, separated by Riverside Drive. To the south of Riverside was poor Mexican and to the north of Riverside was middle-class white. We struggled financially and socially. One […]
Anne T. Henderson: Everyone Wins It was about 25 years ago when I read an article about a new home visit program that had started in Sacramento. It felt like a bell went off in my head. At the time, I had many questions like, where do you start, and what do you do if […]
Dr. Susan Enfield: Leadership Is Founded on Relationships Leadership is a team sport. We have a wonderful team in Washoe County, and I am one of the newest players. I’ve been here 10 months, and Parent Teacher Home Visits have been a central part of the district’s work for many years. Although I’ve always engaged […]
Katie Britton: All Parents Want Great Things for Their Kids I am an assistant principal at Superior Middle School in Superior, Wisconsin. I learned about and started doing home visits at Lincoln Park Middle School in Duluth, Minnesota. We started doing home visits after we read an article in late 2015 about what Saint Paul […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Debbie Pushor: One Home Visit Can Change Your Life My first visit to the home of two of my students—sisters who were one year, less one day, apart in age—occurred early in my teaching days. It was a poignant and powerful experience for me, one that remains a watershed moment. I was invited to […]
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.
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.
