Posted on May 3, 2013 by Larry Ferlazzo
I’ve posted many times here about the importance of schools making home visits to families. Here’s an interesting Washington Post article comparing the effectiveness of home visits related to health care with phone calls for the same purpose. Here are a few excerpts: Health Quality Partners is all about going there. The program enrolls Medicare [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2013 by Larry Ferlazzo
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 [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2013 by Larry Ferlazzo
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 [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
There have been a couple of interesting articles, including a video, in a local Youngstown, Ohio paper about how a congregation-based community organizing project has been working to promote parent engagement: Warren Superintendent Seeks More Parental Involvement ACTION Tackles School Improvements You might also be interested in The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
The headline of this post comes from a nice piece by Jimmy Casas on home visits called My First Home Visit With Larry Leonard. It’s worth a read….
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Posted on November 7, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
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 [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
From “Arkansas teacher makes house calls”: Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest
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Posted on August 24, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
I post a lot about home visits, but not often about a practice that seems to be growing in popularity — early childhood home visits by non-school staff. Education Week recently posted a useful article on the practice, Home Visits Help New Families; Support School Readiness. Here’s how it begins: Kindergartners across the country are [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Carrie Rose, the extraordinary and tireless Director of the Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project is at the Detroit convention of the American Federation of Teachers. She let me know that the St. Paul affiliate (read more about their work at St. Paul teachers visit students’ homes in search [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
The homes of all 7,000 students in Henderson County, Kentucky will be visited by the District’s 1,000 teachers (I assume that number also includes other staff) in one day. It sounds pretty impressive, and you can read more about it in this article. Appointments won’t be made in advance, and, ordinarily, I don’t think that’s [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Learning Begins At Home is a video about a New York City school that makes home visits. The process and content of the visits that we do are different, but it’s still worth viewing (if you’re reading this post on an RSS Reader, you might have to click through to the blog to view the [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
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.
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Posted on April 4, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Making New Promises in Indian Country is an article from The Atlantic about teachers making home visits on a reservation. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits.
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Posted on March 12, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
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:
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Posted on January 7, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo
Jason Renshaw found this video, and I think it does a good job explaining the benefits that Hobbit teachers (and human ones) can gain from making home visits: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits.
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Posted on December 15, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
More Districts Sending Teachers Into Students’ Homes is the title of a lengthy article in Education Week giving a national overview of parent teacher home visits. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
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 [...]
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Posted on December 8, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Making Parent Involvement a Two-Way Street is a nice guest article in Education Week by teacher Kevin Mixon. It’s worth a read…
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Posted on December 1, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Just this week, two short pieces talking about community organizing and parent engagement were published. They might be worth a look: What Inspired Me to Study Parent and Community Engagement at Harvard Education Publishing. Education reform through community action at The Washington Post.
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Posted on November 16, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo
Bruno Manno’s “Straw Mom” Argument is the rather odd headline of a good article on parent engagement and community organizing. It’s from the Annenberg Institute on School Reform. I’m adding it to The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community Organizing.
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