Learning Heroes’ recent report, Unlocking the “How”: Designing Family Engagement Strategies that Lead to School Success, highlights stories like Walter P. Carter from around the country. The report builds on years of research to recommend three pillars for an effective family engagement strategy that drives improvements in student learning and well-being.
Today, many education leaders think about PTHV home visits as a critical practice that improves student and school outcomes – and it does just that. But PTHV didn’t actually start with home visits as we know them today.
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.
