John Nachtsheim: I’ve Never Believed in Anything More Than This I learned of Parent Teacher Home Visits through a colleague of mine. It was 2014, and I was working as a social worker in a middle school up in Duluth, Minnesota. As a staff, we were working on ways to engage our families in our […]
Christina Carlucci: Stop, Pause, and Listen 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 to see more “impact […]
Gretchen Viglione: It’s Not a Job. It’s a Mission. I started teaching in the Sacramento City Unified School District in 1998. I had been teaching for almost 10 years when Parent Teacher Home Visits came to our school through another teacher who had come from a different district. At that time, I was pretty much […]
Katrina Branch: Home Visits Worked for This Community Home visits came into my life at a very trying time. I was fighting for custody of my sister’s children. I was fighting to keep them together. I was fighting to get on a lease to prevent them from being evicted. When the note came home in […]
Amy Schutsky: She’s a Friend Who Has My Back Parent Teacher Home Visits is celebrating 25 years of building trusting relationships between schools and families. To commemorate our Silver Anniversary, we are sharing the stories of close friends, partners, and allies who have helped make PTHV what it is today. Watch this space regularly to […]
Dr. Debbie Pushor: One Home Visit Can Change Your Life My first visit to the home of two of my students—sisters who were one year, less one day, apart in age—occurred early in my teaching days. It was a poignant and powerful experience for me, one that remains a watershed moment. I was invited to […]
Dr. Alex Marrero: A Win-Win-Win 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 to see more “impact stories.” […]
Black History Month: A Call to Resist This month marks our nation’s annual celebration of Black History Month, but “celebration” feels more challenging this year. We are only days removed from the release of the videos depicting the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers, hearkening us back to what […]
Three Keys: How Leadership, Training, and Storytelling Launched PTHV into a National Movement As PTHV celebrates its 25th anniversary, we are taking some time to reflect on key turning points in our history. Today, we look back on the home visit pilot project that took place in eight schools in Sacramento, California, and that launched the relationship-building […]
PTHV in Denver: A National Inspiration Denver Public Schools (DPS) has been practicing Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) since the 2010-2011 school year when PTHV became an official program in DPS. On average, we have about 80 schools participating and conduct more than 6,500 visits each school year. In peak years, we have had more […]
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.
