September 16 - 21, 2024
National PTHV Week 2024
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.
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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.
Evaluation is key to strengthening your program, boosting engagement, and ultimately improving outcomes for students, families, and educators. This guide equips you with everything you need to evaluate your National PTHV Week celebration. Inside, you’ll find:
- Easy-to-use data collection methods and tools.
- Sample surveys to gauge participant feedback.
- Actionable tips for sharing your results and maximizing their impact.
By taking the time to evaluate your National PTHV Week efforts, you can ensure future events are even more successful in fostering strong home-school partnerships.
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.
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.