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. Unlike traditional outreach, this approach disrupts deficit thinking, challenges dominant norms, and positions families as co-educators. Educators reflect on their thinking, adapt instruction, and co-construct learning experiences rooted in students’ lived realities.