A Quarter Century of Impact For 25 years, Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) has equipped school staff to build relationships of trust with the families in their communities. Over the last year, we’ve reflected on our history, celebrated our wins, built new partnerships, launched the annual National PTHV Week, shared our stories, and opened the […]
Traci Davis: If You Haven’t Made a Deposit, You Cannot Make a Withdrawal As a classroom teacher and a specialist in the late 90s and early 2000s, I did home visits (a different model). One of my principals moved me out of the classroom to do home visits for the schools. My counterpart was a […]
Andy Coons: Mr. Coons Will Be Your Dad at School I have two reasons for being engaged with Parent Teacher Home Visits for many years—one’s personal and one’s professional. I work for the National Education Association (NEA), and we have a long organizational history with PTHV. I direct the Center for Professional Excellence and Student […]
Don Diehl: It Was Total Chaos, and It Was Perfect Parent Teacher Home Visits is celebrating 25 years of building trusting relationships between schools and families. To commemorate our Silver Anniversary, we will share the stories of close friends, partners, and allies who have helped make PTHV what it is today. Watch this space regularly […]
In my work with school districts, I have witnessed firsthand how leaders continue to think of family engagement as an optional gesture; how manifestations of white supremacist thinking are exerted through controlling student and community dialogues and even how key community organizing efforts for teacher training become thwarted and backburned. This inevitably allows white dominate school cultures to maintain power and control.
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.
