Creating equitable classrooms demands more than just awareness of student backgrounds. Parent Teacher Home Visits provides a proven strategy for deepening relationships and transforming mindsets. Through structured, voluntary home visits, educators learn from families, centering their hopes, dreams, and cultural knowledge. This approach fosters trust, reimagines instruction, and builds community-connected classrooms where all students thrive. […]
Get ready to celebrate the power of Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) Week! This downloadable flyer will guide you through the entire planning process, from setting goals to finalizing your activities. Whether you’re aiming to incentivize educators or boost awareness among families, this flyer provides a step-by-step approach and resources to ensure a successful PTHV […]
Evaluation is a valuable tool for leaders looking to strengthen, sustain, and grow a program or practice and, ultimately, improve outcomes for the students, families, and educators they serve. As such, evaluation should be a key component of local and National PTHV Week celebrations. This guide offers suggested data collection methods and tools, sample surveys, […]
The Parent Teacher Home Visits Advocacy Toolkit is a powerful resource designed to assist and empower you in advocating for the initiation or expansion of a transformative practice: Parent-Teacher Home Visits. This toolkit has been carefully curated to equip you with the necessary tools and knowledge to foster deeper connections and create a positive impact […]
At this global inflection point in education—in which we’re consumed with the urgency of recovery and the imperative for equity—the work often feels confined within the walls of the school building. But there exists a transformative force that bridges the gap between home and school. It is the power of Parent Teacher Home Visits, where […]
Here’s a special memento to capture the hopes and dreams you discover during the home visits you conduct during national PTHV Week. A Hopes and Dreams Certificate! Home-visiting educators can download copies of this certificate to present during home visits conducted during PTHV Week and beyond.
In this guide, we lay out the basic parts of a strategic communication plan—use this as a guide for PTHV Week and other family-facing initiatives within your school district.
Evaluation is a valuable tool for leaders looking to strengthen, sustain, and grow a program or practice and, ultimately, improve outcomes for the students, families, and educators they serve. This guide will help you: See and hear the impact of PTHV Week activities Answer questions about the effectiveness of PTHV Week activities Inform improvements to […]
A selection of resources to help you start or expand a home visit practice, including sample resolution and proclamation language, advocacy letters for the school board and for families, sample phone scripts, and guidance on ride-alongs and mini-conferences.
Tips for Teachers: Maintaining Relationships of Trust in a Time of Social Distancing
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.
