Today’s Parade Magazine has a feature article on How Latinos Are Changing America. In it, Linda Alvarado, president and CEO of Denver’s Alvarado Construction and a co-owner of the Colorado Rockies, has this exchange with the interviewer: Morales: You ask any Latino parent what is the most important thing and they say education. Yet the […]
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of — and our school and local union is a very active participant in — The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). They recently had their national conference, and I invited Carrie Rose from the Project to write […]
As regular readers know, I’m a big supporter of the Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). Here’s a guest post written by Carrie Rose and Elaine Smith from the Project: What School Reform Can Learn from Business: It’s not what you think Change Won’t Work Without Relationships […]
I’ve written a lot about the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project, including our school’s — and my — active involvement in it (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). I’ve also posted about the U.S Department of Education’s “Parent and Community Engagement Framework,” which they released in April and which talks about home […]
I’ve previously published short reports on last month’s National Family Engagement Conference. Today, Carrie Rose, Executive Director of the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project, has written this guest post about it: Parent-Teacher Home Visits Fit DOE’s Vision Researcher Karen L. Mapp lifts up PTHVP in Family Engagement Framework CINCINNATI- Back in the day, did your grandma […]
Teachers find home visits help in the classroom is a good article from the Associated Press. Here’s an excerpt: “We’ve figured out a way for people to sit down outside the regular school and have the most important conversation that needs to happen,” said Carrie Rose, executive director of the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project […]
An article came out yesterday about a controversy in San Diego surrounding a parent group funded by Rod Dammeyer, a venture capitalist and charter school supporter. All I know is what the article says, and it appears that the teachers union is understandably concerned that actions by the parents group carry a hidden charter school […]
One of the few good things that have come out of this year’s NBC Education Nation is a short segment on the work of the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. Here’s the video (you can find the transcript here): Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I’m adding it to: […]
NBC’s Education Nation was — except for some rare instances (a segment on the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project was one) — was a fiasco this year, with proponents of “school reform” often given the spotlight to chatter on unchallenged. Unfortunately, they also decided to provide the world a “Parent Toolkit” filled with “academic growth […]
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. They’ve just put out a short description of an effort recently begun at our school — college readiness home visits. You can read it all here, and here’s an excerpt (I’m adding this to The Best Resources For Learning About […]
The Hechinger Report just published an article by the leaders of the “school reform” group Stand For Children. It’s titled We’re not doing enough to engage parents, even though it improves achievement. It actually has a fair amount of good “stuff” in it, including briefly discussing the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. Unfortunately, though, the […]
A few years ago, The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project made a great video explaining what it does. I recently discovered that they had put it on the web, and have embedded it below. For what it’s worth, two-thirds of the way through I’m show teaching one of my classes while our vice-principal tells about […]
I’m a big supporter of teachers making home visits (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). Though I couldn’t make last month’s national home visit conference in Denver, several other staff and parents from our school did attend. Carrie Rose, Executive Director of the Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project, agreed to write this […]
I’ve written a lot about school’s work with the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and our parent-driven “parent university” program. Here’s a video Mai Xi Lee, one of our school’s Vice-Principals, made for last weekend’s national Parent Teacher Home Visit Project conference. For what it’s worth, that’s me speaking after the text introduction….
Home Visits Yield Hope and Cooperation is from the NEA Priority Schools Campaign, and is a very good story on teachers making home visits with help from the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits.
Try parent visits, not parent takeovers of schools is a new column by Jay Mathews at The Washington Post. It’s a nice column, but it was a little weird to have a column on home visits without mentioning The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Learning […]
I’ve just posted Part One in a three part series on parent engagement over at Education Week Teacher. This first piece, Ways To Build Trust Between Parents & Teachers — Part One, includes guest responses from the President of the National PTA and from the Executive Director of the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. Your […]
The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project was recently invited to Flint, Michigan to talk about their work. The local television station produced this short news clip. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits:
The Flamboyan Foundation has developed a very accessible review of the most current parent engagement/involvement research. It includes some surprising info, particularly around issues related to homework. They’ve published it in two parts, and the great thing about it is that both are only two pages long! The first is called Setting the Stage: The […]
Regular readers know that I’m an enthusiastic supporter of the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. Our school has been a big supporter, I’ve written about them in my book and in other articles, I’ve helped with some of their trainings and, of course, I’ve made plenty of home visits. I’ve also posted The Best Resources […]