Traci Davis: If You Haven’t Made a Deposit, You Cannot Make a Withdrawal As a classroom teacher and a specialist in the late 90s and early 2000s, I did home visits (a different model). One of my principals moved me out of the classroom to do home visits for the schools. My counterpart was a […]
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 […]
Andy Coons: Mr. Coons Will Be Your Dad at School I have two reasons for being engaged with Parent Teacher Home Visits for many years—one’s personal and one’s professional. I work for the National Education Association (NEA), and we have a long organizational history with PTHV. I direct the Center for Professional Excellence and Student […]
Christina Carlucci: Stop, Pause, and Listen 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 “impact […]
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 […]
Jonathan Raymond: One Plus One Equals Four 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
