Parent Teacher Home Visits Are About Trust, Not Compliance In post-pandemic PreK-12 education, the issue of chronic absence looms large. Recently released federal data show that during the 2021-22 school year and beyond, 72 percent of all public schools experienced an increase in chronic absence, defined as missing at least 10% of the school year, […]
Showcasing the Power of Home Visits “Trust is so fundamental to all other kinds of outcomes — attendance, learning and social-emotional wellness. At Parent Teacher Home Visits, we really pay attention to that foundation of trust. Because when you have trust between families and schools, every other program, every other intervention is probably going to […]
Join Us for a Virtual Workshop with Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity Strong and authentic relationships between educators and families are essential for transforming our educational systems, communities, and schools. We invite you to join a conversation about it in an upcoming interactive workshop hosted by Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity. Join us on November […]
It’s Professional Learning Season! It’s the time of year when students and teachers have settled into the school year, the new boxes of crayons are all broken and dumped into plastic tubs, and students are starting to wear jackets to school. The rhythm of life in the PK-12 world is that there are seasons of […]
#PTHVWeek 2023! We just wrapped the second annual National Parent Teacher Home Visits Week, a time when schools across the nation celebrate teachers and families for building relationships of trust. We launched PTHV Week in 2022 to kick off the celebration of our 25th anniversary, and the response was a resounding success, with districts sharing the stories […]
Listen In: PTHV Featured on Corner CAFE Podcast We were delighted to join the Corner CAFE podcast to talk about the insights that come from 25 years of sharing our model of home visits with schools and districts across the nation. PTHV Co-Founder and Senior Advisor Yesenia Ramirez and PTHV National Trainer Tyler Post sat […]
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 […]
Melissa Bryant: It’s Magic Fairy Dust I first heard about Parent Teacher Home Visits about 13 years ago. I taught fourth-grade math at Stanton Elementary School in Washington, DC. I arrived at Stanton because Michelle Rhee, who was the chancellor at the time, came up with this idea where high-performing charter schools could partner with […]
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 […]
Lysette Lemay: That Night, I Ate Steak and Green Beans Parent Teacher Home Visits is celebrating 25 years of building trusting relationships between schools and families. To commemorate our Silver Anniversary, we are sharing the stories of close friends, partners, and allies who have helped make PTHV what it is today. Watch this space regularly […]
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.
