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 […]
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.
