An NEA Foundation Issue Brief Key Findings: “Our investment in Springfield and Seattle teacher home visits is first and foremost an investment in teacher effectiveness and enriched student learning. The equally enduring value of our investment is in the strengthening of the very fabric of our communities through the partnerships that these programs rely upon […]
The Research and Their Stories: 2014 Landscape Evaluation of PTHVP Model Across the US Key Findings: Home Visits… Improve student learning and outcomes Increase parent involvement Facilitate use of culturally responsive strategies Bridge teacher-parent relationships, contact and communication Improve teacher-student relationships and communication Promote trust and sense of self-efficacy for teachers, parents and students
St. Paul Federation of Teachers Parent Teacher Home Visiting Project Evaluation In close collaboration with leadership at both the St. Paul Federation of Teachers and Parent Teacher Home Visits, evaluators surveyed trained teachers, shadowed on home visits, observed training and debrief sessions, and reviewed existing documents and news stories about the program. Parents and families […]
The Family Engagement Partnership: Student Outcome Evaluation Findings from this evaluation suggest that interventions to build teachers’ capacity to engage families can lead to better outcomes for students and teachers. The trusting relationships between teachers and families established at the beginning of the school year, through home visiting, are associated with academic success. In addition, […]
Student Outcomes and Parent Teacher Home Visits This report details the results of rigorous research conducted by Johns Hopkins University that show a strong connection between the PTHV model of relational home visits and decreases in chronic absence rates and increases in English Language Arts proficiency among students. Moreover, these outcomes were observed for individual […]
Parent Teacher Home Visits Implementation Study This report looks deeply at how the PTHV model is practiced in four school districts across the country. The authors, nationally acclaimed evaluators from RTI International, reinforce the importance of the model’s five core practices as initially envisioned by the founders. They conclude that these practices should remain “non-negotiables” […]
Mindset Shifts and Parent Teacher Home Visits This report summarizes findings from a study conducted by RTI International examining whether and how PTHV helps to interrupt implicit biases that educators and families may have about each other. The following changes in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors resulted from participation in PTHV: Families felt more comfortable interacting […]
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.
