1. So You’ve Launched Home Visits: Now What? Beyond the Basics

2. Parent/Teacher Home Visits PreK-12
Remember: Home Visits Are
And Our Model: Two Visits
Voluntary For All
Staff Trained And Compensated
Visits In Teams Of Two
Relational (Hopes and Dreams)
Across the Board (Not Targeted)
Visit 1
Relational
Focus is on Building Trust and Opening New Lines of Communication
30-40 minutes
Visit 2
Informational
Focus is on Academics and Capacity Building

3. Beyond the Basics
Success Can Be A Problem- How Do You Insure The Visits Stay Relational?
Are The Visits Building Capacity for Students, Educators and Families?
Are The Home Visits Linked Back Into The Learning Cycle At School?

4. Relational Visits Why Visits Stray From Relational Model
Role of Union Leadership
Two Examples- Sacramento and St. Paul

5. St. Paul’s Experience
Other Means For Partnering With the Community: Listening Sessions, Book Groups, Community Meetings, and Open Bargaining

7. 4000+ Signatures presented
to the school board

8. More than 1,000 signs went out, creating conversations in homes across the city

9. January 30- walk ins with 2500 parents and teachers participating

10. School Board Rally

11. Multiple Capacity Building Feature of PTHVP
Students
Families
Staff

12. Two Great Strategies … But Together…. A Winning Combination!
Linking Home Visits To Learning Back At the School
Two Great Strategies
… But Together….
A Winning Combination!

13. One Teacher’s Experience
Melissa Bryant, Stanton Elementary School

14. The Academic Parent Teacher Team Model
Two Components:
Three 75-minute team meetings (All parents in the class come together)
One 30-minute individual session (The teacher, the student, and the student’s family)
APTT Repurposes Traditional Conferences

15. Individual Session (30-min.) Held In Oct-Nov.
APTT Implementation Timeline
Team Meeting
(75-min.)
Held In Early Fall
Individual Session (30-min.) Held In Oct-Nov.
Team Meeting (75-min.)
Held In Winter
Held In Spring
APTT increases parent-teacher collaboration time by
approximately 600% compared to traditional conferences.

16. NEA Priority School Partners!
Thank You
NEA Priority School Partners!
What’s Next?
Come To Our 8th National Gathering:
October in St. Paul, MN
For more details visit
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Carrie Rose,
Nick Faber,
Melissa Bryant, ,