PTHV Podcast Premiere – The Ripple Effect Parent Teacher Home Visits · The Ripple Effect – How Parent Teacher Home Visits Impact Attendance As National PTHV Week draws to a close, we are delighted to unveil a very special podcast episode, the very first in an occasional series on the impact of home visits on […]
We were delighted to host a critical conversation, “Breaking the Attendance Barrier: The Power of Parent-Teacher Home Visits,” to kick off the third annual National PTHV Week. The webinar was a deep dive into one of the most persistent challenges with which our nation’s schools are grappling: the worrisome rates of chronic absenteeism. These rates […]
Beyond Interventions: Building Relationships that Help Get Kids to School What the Data on Chronic Absence Is Really Saying Since the pandemic closed schools four years ago, our nation’s school districts have struggled to recover on several fronts, from enrollment and learning setbacks to school climate issues and social-emotional development. Perhaps no issue, however, has […]
Parent Teacher Home Visits Are About Trust, Not Compliance In post-pandemic PreK-12 education, the issue of chronic absence looms large. Recently released federal data show that during the 2021-22 school year and beyond, 72 percent of all public schools experienced an increase in chronic absence, defined as missing at least 10% of the school year, […]
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.
