Catch PTHV on Roadtrip Nation Mark your calendars for May 1! You won’t want to miss PTHV’s Executive Director, Gina Martinez-Keddy and Founding Parent, Yesenia Ramirez on Roadtrip Nation. Their interviews are part of a series, “Education’s Future: Teachers + Families,” in which three early-career teachers talk to people reimagining how families can be partners […]
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, […]
PTHV Announces Commitments to Support Academic Achievement Parent Teacher Home Visits is proud to be among the several philanthropic and national organizations committed to supporting academic achievement, as announced in a new White House agenda outlining strategies to improve student performance. To support this initiative, PTHV will host National PTHV Week in September 2024, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
National PTHV Week Is Coming September 18 – 23, 2023 We are delighted to announce the second annual National PTHV Week is coming, and we want you to be a part of it. Mark your calendars for September 18-23, 2023, to join our shared celebration of the benefits of building trusting relationships between educators and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
