September 15 - 20, 2025
National PTHV Week 2025
National PTHV Week is a dedicated time to celebrate the power of Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) in fostering strong relationships between schools and families. This annual event highlights the positive impact of home visits on student outcomes, including improved academic performance, attendance, and overall well-being. The primary goal of PTHV Week is to raise awareness of the importance of home visits and encourage schools and communities to adopt and implement this effective practice.
Upcoming Webinar
Rooted in Relationships: How Home Visits Transform Schools
Join us on September 18, 2025, for a PTHV Week Webinar, hosted in partnership with CAFE at MAEC. Discover how building authentic relationships through home visits can transform schools, support student success, and foster a thriving sense of belonging for every child and family. Rooted in Relationships will feature practical strategies, inspiring stories, and new research showing how trust-based partnerships between families and educators lead to measurable improvements in engagement, attendance, and achievement. This session is designed for educators, administrators, and advocates interested in making family engagement the foundation for positive, lasting school change—no matter your school context or role. Be part of a nationwide movement creating more connected, equitable school communities—one relationship at a time.
Show You’re PTHV-Trained!
Celebrate Your Commitment to Family Engagement with a PTHV-Trained Educator Email Signature
As part of National PTHV Week, we’re excited to share a new way for educators to proudly display their commitment to building trust with families. If you’ve completed Parent Teacher Home Visits training, download our official PTHV-Trained Educator email badge and add it to your email signature. This digital badge is a quick, visible way to let families and colleagues know you’re part of a national movement transforming education through relationships.
👉 [Download the badge here] (Right-click to save)
👉 [Access the Email Signature Instructional Guide here]
Ways to Participate in National PTHV Week
Quick Links to PTHV Week Resources
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. This blog post contains additional ideas for how to use the certificate.
The Parent Teacher Home Visits Advocacy Toolkit equips you to champion a transformative practice – Parent-Teacher Home Visits (PTHV). This carefully curated toolkit provides the tools and knowledge you need to advocate for initiating or expanding PTHV in your district. Inside, you’ll find:
- Actionable Strategies: Learn how to connect with decision-makers and build support for PTHV.
- Ready-to-Use Resources: Access model language for proclamations and resolutions, sample letters and phone scripts, and more.
- Engagement Ideas: Discover creative activities to rally your community around PTHV.
As you move toward the planning and implementation
of your school or district’s Parent Teacher Home Visits
Week, you’ll need a communications plan to help guide your way to success. A good communications plan will help build excitement and anticipation around PTHV Week. It will help you and your team engage with important audiences before, during, and after the event. It will help keep your team members acting on one accord to avoid some of the common hiccups of event planning, and it will point the way toward the strategies and tactics needed to sustain and grow your home visit practice.
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.
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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.