The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project

Dear PTHVP friends,

The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project has been busy. Our model of training, support, and relationship building has proved effective in a wide variety of settings this year, from urban Washington, D.C. to rural Billings, Montana. Our program has not only trained hundreds, and visited thousands, but has also implemented the exciting strategy called Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT), which deepen the relationship between families and schools, resulting in greater student success.

From an organizational perspective, PTHVP continues to grow into a national network. We are about to hold our annual conference, which brings together home visit practitioners, education leaders and policy makers from around the country. This year, held in San Francisco, over 300 will be in attendance. Following the conference, we’ll send in a report that gives you the stats on work throughout the nation. For now, take the example of Sacramento, CA, where the project started fifteen years ago. The following numbers give you an idea of the exciting activity in just one place, the Sacramento City Unified School District, in 2012.

Home Visits

• Over 3,300 home visits were conducted last year (2012) in SCUSD.
• Over 400 teachers conducted visits.
• 40 schools in SCUSD participated in conducting relationship building/welcome to your new school visits, transitional visits and college readiness visits.
• 10 schools had over 80% of their staff conducting visits.

Academic Parent Teacher Teams

• 5 schools piloted APTT last year.
• 8 new schools have joined this year for a total of 13 schools.
• Teachers that did a home visit first doubled their parent attendance at each their APTT meetings vs. those teachers that did not conduct a home visit first.
• Students that had families attend APTT meetings saw an average increase of 21 points in addition/subtraction/multiplication assessments.
• Students that had families attend APTT meetings saw an average increase of 32 points in their fluency assessments.  
• 97% of parents who attended APTT meetings reported a better understanding of grade level foundational skills and they felt more confident helping their child with academic work at home.
• 95% of parents who attended felt they had a better understanding of how to monitor their child’s academic progress and goals and felt more confident to be involved in their child’s academic learning.
• 87% of parents who attended preferred APTT meetings over the traditional parent teacher conference.

All this incrediable transformational work would not be possible without the support from our donors like you. Thanks for thinking of us!

Sincerely,

Carrie Rose and Lisa Levasseur

Links:

• PTHVP website