Wisconsin Teachers Are Powering School Change In Madison and Milwaukee last week, more than 60 educators spent their day doing something that rarely shows up in job descriptions: preparing to visit students’ homes to build trust with families. It marked the launch of WE-Lead (Wisconsin Educators Leading Family Engagement), a new partnership between the National […]
From Grassroots Growth to District-Wide Investment: How Cajon Valley Built a Sustainable Home Visit Culture Ten years ago, we started something that would fundamentally change how our district connects with families. Today, when schools reach out to us asking for their entire staff to be trained in home visits—not because we’re pushing it, but because […]
From Day One: Why Family Engagement Must Start in Preservice Teacher Training For too many new teachers, the first years in the classroom are a crash course in realities that weren’t covered in their credential programs. One of the most glaring gaps is learning how to meaningfully engage families as partners in their children’s education. […]
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 […]
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.
