Hopes and Dreams Certificates for PTHV Week As a core practice of PTHV’s model, discussing hopes and dreams for the student during the home visit is critical. It centers the conversation around the student, grounds the relationship between educators and families, and creates a mutual goal for both to work together. As we near our […]
Join Us for a #LearningTuesdays Webinar During PTHV Week Parent Teacher Home Visits & the Power of Trusting Relationships: 25 Years of Impact September 20, 2022 | 3-4:30 PM ET Presented by The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Twenty-five years ago, parent and community organizers joined forces with educators to pilot a relational home visit model, Parent […]
PTHV Week is a special observance for which we’re inviting our partnering schools and districts from across the country to celebrate 25 years of authentic trust-building home visits with us.
Learning Heroes’ recent report, Unlocking the “How”: Designing Family Engagement Strategies that Lead to School Success, highlights stories like Walter P. Carter from around the country. The report builds on years of research to recommend three pillars for an effective family engagement strategy that drives improvements in student learning and well-being.
Today, many education leaders think about PTHV home visits as a critical practice that improves student and school outcomes – and it does just that. But PTHV didn’t actually start with home visits as we know them today.
Schools and districts across the country share our excitement to celebrate the inaugural National PTHV Week celebration. As interest grows and planning gets underway, frequently asked questions are being generated.
In my work with school districts, I have witnessed firsthand how leaders continue to think of family engagement as an optional gesture; how manifestations of white supremacist thinking are exerted through controlling student and community dialogues and even how key community organizing efforts for teacher training become thwarted and backburned. This inevitably allows white dominate school cultures to maintain power and control.
Drop in to Our Virtual Office for PTHV Week Planning Support Has planning your PTHV Week got you feeling overwhelmed? In need of a thought partner as you develop your plan to celebrate? We’ve got you covered! Beginning May 12, 2022, PTHV’s Program Director Rachel Brice will host virtual office hours on a bi-weekly basis […]
PTHV Week Communications and Evaluation Strategies This week, we hosted the second of four planned sessions to help schools design their very first PTHV Week. Running September 19 – 24, 2022, this special observance will be filled with celebration and intensified efforts to conduct Parent Teacher Home Visits. In this session, we covered communications planning […]
The PTHV Week Mini-Grant Application Window Is Open To commemorate our 25th Anniversary, Parent Teacher Home Visits is launching our inaugural National PTHV Week from September 19-24, 2022. To support the planning and implementation of local celebrations, we will award five (5) schools/districts with up to $1,000 each in grant funding. For this grant application, […]
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.
