Join Team PTHV at IEL’s CSxFE 2024! The Parent Teacher Home Visits team is excited to return to the Institute for Educational Leadership’s (IEL) National Community Schools and Family Engagement Conference (CSxFE). Last year, our team traveled to Philadelphia for the annual conference. In addition to sharing the power of home visits and the evidence […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Karen L. Mapp: Quite Frankly, They’re Nervous about It 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
