Quarterly Training Spotlight: Q1 2026 For nearly 30 years, PTHV has trained thousands of educators to conduct relational home visits. The core of our training program, Introduction to Home Visits, prepares educators to do home visits with fidelity. In Q1, our training team facilitated 17 of these trainings with 15 partners, both virtually and in-person across eight states. This round of trainings was extra […]
Remembering PTHV Cofounder Howard Lawrence Our dear friend and PTHV cofounder Howard Lawrence passed away last week. I’ve been sitting with that for a few days now, trying to find the right words. Howard wasn’t someone who needed a lot of words. He was someone who got things done and who understood, deeply, that getting […]
We Are Living History This February marks 100 years since Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 – an insistence, in the face of exclusion, that Black life and achievement would be studied, named, and remembered, not “overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed.” His response was to institutionalize the study and commemoration of Black history—to create structures that would ensure these stories could […]
A Conversation with Family Engagement Pioneer Anne T. Henderson In celebration of National Family Engagement Month, we’re sharing highlights from our latest podcast episode featuring four decades of insights on building authentic family-school partnerships. This November marks National Family Engagement Month 2025, a time when we come together to celebrate and advance the work of […]
The Power of Welcoming Every Family: How Home Visits Create Lasting Connections in Framingham When we first brought the idea of Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) to Framingham back in 2016, we were responding to a simple but powerful need: to build lasting, meaningful partnerships between our schools and the families we serve. At that […]
Emily Garcia Joins the PTHV Board Today we officially welcome Emily Garcia, Executive Director of the DC Office at Flamboyan Foundation to the Parent Teacher Home Visits Board of Directors. Emily brings nearly two decades of experience in education leadership, with a strong commitment to advancing equity and authentic family engagement. At Flamboyan, she has […]
PTHV’s 2024 Wrapped: A Year-End Review It’s been an exciting year for Parent Teacher Home Visits, filled with firsts, new faces, milestones and more! As 2024 draws to a close, let’s look back on some highlights. New Year, New Faces At the top of the year, we welcomed two new board members, Dr. Eyal Bergman, […]
PTHV Podcast Premiere – The Ripple Effect Parent Teacher Home Visits · The Ripple Effect – How Parent Teacher Home Visits Impact Attendance As National PTHV Week draws to a close, we are delighted to unveil a very special podcast episode, the very first in an occasional series on the impact of home visits on […]
We were delighted to host a critical conversation, “Breaking the Attendance Barrier: The Power of Parent-Teacher Home Visits,” to kick off the third annual National PTHV Week. The webinar was a deep dive into one of the most persistent challenges with which our nation’s schools are grappling: the worrisome rates of chronic absenteeism. These rates […]
Beyond Interventions: Building Relationships that Help Get Kids to School What the Data on Chronic Absence Is Really Saying Since the pandemic closed schools four years ago, our nation’s school districts have struggled to recover on several fronts, from enrollment and learning setbacks to school climate issues and social-emotional development. Perhaps no issue, however, has […]
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.
