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 […]
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.
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.
