The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project

Dear generous donor, In our report this quarter I would like to share with you a short story that I was privileged to read on how your donation has impacted students, teachers and families all across America.  I have been teaching now for 13 years and in my 13 years I must say that home visits are the number one way...

I believe the paradigm needs to be shifted in public schools,  specifically schools serving the poor. Less energy needs to be spent on complaining, or at best brainstorming, how we teachers can get parents to step foot through our school doors.  Instead, I challenge the shift to start with first asking if we...

Dear Donor, Thanks to your generous support of this project, we have had an extremely successful home visiting school year and summer.  Here are a few highlights: California- Sacramento City USD completed close to 5000 home visits in the 11-12 school year at 43 K-12 sites! Colorado- Denver has increased their home...

Dear Parent Teacher Home Visit Partner,   Over the past few months we have been extremely busy working with educators and parents across this nation.  Below are a few highlights of the work your donations have helped us accomplish:   Nevada just held a statewide conference in Las Vegas where home visiting...

Dear Generous Donor, Here is the Big Picture on Our National Expansion: Our model of home visits is already working in urban, suburban and rural schools and districts and while the demand for our work nationally has never been stronger-we are currently in a dozen states and are poised to launch in two more-we are at...

Dear Donor, One of the best parts of my job is to hear about the impact our project has had on the various educators that we have trained around the country.  I received this story a month ago from Nicole Matoon, a first grade teacher from Sunnyside Elementary and I wanted to share...

Dear generous donor, The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project is on the move and we want to truly thank you for all the support.  As the warm summer months came to an end, the home visit training team naively thought our schedule would wind down too, when in fact, it was just the opposite.  September...

August Update: As stated in a former report we have been extremely busy during these past few months. Locally in Sacramento (where the project first started) 45 sites in the Sacramento City Unified School District were officially funded to do home visits.  Trainings have begun to happen too as schools begin to...

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...

Dear donors, I wanted to share with you a great story that one of our families shared with us.  Sarah’s story is an excellent example of the power of a relationship building home visit. My name is Sarah Gebre. I am from Ethiopia. I have lived in Denver, Colorado for the past 6 years. I am married and have four...

Dear Donor,                 Thanks to your generous contribution we have been very busy training teachers across the United States.  In April 2011, we: Trained three different student teacher classes at a neighboring university. Kicked off...