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 […]
Don Diehl: It Was Total Chaos, and It Was Perfect 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 […]
Amy Schutsky: She’s a Friend Who Has My Back 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 to […]
Yesenia Ramirez: There’s a Magic That Happens 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 […]
Three Keys: How Leadership, Training, and Storytelling Launched PTHV into a National Movement As PTHV celebrates its 25th anniversary, we are taking some time to reflect on key turning points in our history. Today, we look back on the home visit pilot project that took place in eight schools in Sacramento, California, and that launched the relationship-building […]
PTHV and the Power of Trusting Relationships: 25 Years of Impact Twenty-five years ago, parent and community organizers joined forces with educators to pilot a relational home visit model, Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV), at eight Sacramento, California, schools to counter deeply held mistrust and disrupt the cycle of blame between home and school. Success and […]
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 […]