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 […]
Paz Torres: Sometimes, My Home Is Messy, Too When I first started home visits back in my second year of teaching, I was so shy back then and afraid because I didn’t know how to start conversations and would ask myself, how am I supposed to do this? But then I remembered the training gave […]
Traci Davis: If You Haven’t Made a Deposit, You Cannot Make a Withdrawal As a classroom teacher and a specialist in the late 90s and early 2000s, I did home visits (a different model). One of my principals moved me out of the classroom to do home visits for the schools. My counterpart was a […]
Nancy Lopez: The Best Professional Learning You Will Ever Receive I got introduced to Parent Teacher Home Visits when I was a student at Sacramento State. I was a student teacher getting my credential, and I was placed at a school site in Sacramento City Unified School District. It was a dual-language program, and my […]
Kelly Mitchell: I Was Judging a Book by Its Cover I am a PE teacher, athletic director, and lead elective teacher — I have a lot of responsibilities in the building at Desert Skies Middle School. I now also hold the title of home visit coordinator. I learned about Parent Teacher Home Visits about nine […]
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 […]
Kirinda Anderson: I’m Going to Say Yes as Long as I Can Say Yes I’ve always wanted to go back to my daughter’s second-grade teacher, Mrs. Pearson, and ask her what made her do home visits. I know why I said yes. I said yes because, as a parent and a woman, I was entering […]
Nick Faber: There’s No Money for That 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 […]
Tyler Post: I Don’t Know What You’re Doing but Keep Going This is my 26th year in education. About six years ago, I was a teacher and dean at a Washoe County School District alternative school, working with students and families who often had a history of negative interactions and experiences with the education system. […]
John Nachtsheim: I’ve Never Believed in Anything More Than This I learned of Parent Teacher Home Visits through a colleague of mine. It was 2014, and I was working as a social worker in a middle school up in Duluth, Minnesota. As a staff, we were working on ways to engage our families in our […]
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.
