The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project

Just a quick update on our efforts so far this summer:

Our team has been very busy throughout California and around the country training educators on how to do relationship building home visits.

In California we trained Pittsburg High School in the bay area and held a phone conference with LAUSD California educators, union and community colleagues in May 2011 to explore and plan for PTHVP to be piloted at Belmont HS and perhaps some other locations.  Things appear to be moving forward and we expect a fall launch.  The expansion into LAUSD is obviously very exciting given the size and scope of possibilities!  In Sacramento City Unified School District we had over 50 K-12 schools apply for home visit funding and in June we launched our preschool into kindergarten transitional home visits, as well as the 9^th grade transitional home visits.

Across the country our team conducted a “Train the Trainers” session in both Anchorage, Alaska and Denver, Colorado.  “Train the Trainers” is an eight hour interactive training session led by experienced home visiting trainers and is designed to fully prepare selected parents and teachers to become regional trainers for other colleagues and school community members who would like to launch home visit efforts in their areas using this proven model. 

We also traveled to St. Paul, Minnesota where we trained over 20 teachers. St. Paul has become a big focus for support from our AFT colleagues.  Their interests in home visits have rapidly increased over the past year. The PTHVP team is heading back to MN in August to complete the trainings for interested educators at several sites.

The PTHVP also conducted a week's worth of trainings at several Montana communities in June, including a new pre k-12 effort in schools throughout the state.  We also connected with the communities that have launched in the past year via a panel of educators and parents who provided ground level expertise on successes and challenges as the model is adapted in their local community.  This session was very positive and productive and will help us continue to shape our expansion into rural communities.  We will be returning to Montana in August to work with several SIG sites that serve primarily Native American students.  For some press on our work see: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/education/article_bf29493e-9c8e-11e0-82e7-001cc4c03286.html

Arlington, Virginia and Washington DC- the interest in Washington DC schools is nothing short of astounding from the early childhood to high school levels!  We've trained educators at five sites within the district and have been invited back in August for several additional training sessions. We also trained a group of educators at a high school in Arlington, Virginia.

Thanks for your support!

Links:

• Parent Teacher Home Visit Site