Quarterly Training Spotlight: Q1 2026 For nearly 30 years, PTHV has trained thousands of educators to conduct relational home visits. The core of our training program, Introduction to Home Visits, prepares educators to do home visits with fidelity. In Q1, our training team facilitated 17 of these trainings with 15 partners, both virtually and in-person across eight states. This round of trainings was extra […]
Remembering PTHV Cofounder Howard Lawrence Our dear friend and PTHV cofounder Howard Lawrence passed away last week. I’ve been sitting with that for a few days now, trying to find the right words. Howard wasn’t someone who needed a lot of words. He was someone who got things done and who understood, deeply, that getting […]
Trust Is Not Soft. It’s Infrastructure. I have spent enough time in American public education to know that we are not short on diagnoses—we are short on the willingness to treat the root cause like an emergency. Chronic absenteeism. Teacher attrition. Declining family trust in public schools. Every superintendent I know can recite these numbers: nearly one in four students missing enough school […]
PTHV Board of Directors: New Members And New Leadership We’re happy to announce that our Board of Directors has elected four new members: Shital C. Shah, who returns to the Board after previously serving from 2015 to 2019 and has been elected as Board Chair; Georgia Rhett, Superintendent of Arvin Union School District; Mary Jane […]
Emily Garcia Joins the PTHV Board Today we officially welcome Emily Garcia, Executive Director of the DC Office at Flamboyan Foundation to the Parent Teacher Home Visits Board of Directors. Emily brings nearly two decades of experience in education leadership, with a strong commitment to advancing equity and authentic family engagement. At Flamboyan, she has […]
Honoring a Champion for Families and Communities At Parent Teacher Home Visits, we believe in the power of human connection to transform education. Every other year, we honor one extraordinary individual who embodies that belief by presenting the Jocelyn Graves Award—a tribute to those who uplift communities, foster trust, and center family voices in education. […]
PTHV’s 2024 Wrapped: A Year-End Review It’s been an exciting year for Parent Teacher Home Visits, filled with firsts, new faces, milestones and more! As 2024 draws to a close, let’s look back on some highlights. New Year, New Faces At the top of the year, we welcomed two new board members, Dr. Eyal Bergman, […]
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 Seeks a New Executive Director The Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) Board of Directors is thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity to join and lead the national nonprofit Parent Teacher Home Visits as its Executive Director. The 26-year-old organization is seeking an innovative and experienced professional to guide PTHV through the […]
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.
