Building Bridges Between Home & School
Dear FPS Community:
Families and educators often want the same thing for their students – to learn and thrive in school. The Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) program aims to strengthen partnerships between home and school and to nurture a greater sense of belonging across our entire school community!
PTHV is a completely voluntary program for educators and families in Framingham. Before their first home visit, educators who elect to participate in PTHV are trained about how to respectfully and authentically engage with families. A key aspect of this training is ensuring that families and educators are meeting each other as equal partners in their student’s education.
Caregivers and educators come together in homes or at other mutually agreed upon locations.
Educators will visit in teams of two, and interpreters can be provided, if necessary.
This is not a parent/teacher conference.
Please know that you may be contacted by your child’s teacher to participate in one of these brief (30-40 minute) home visits.
Consistent with Framingham Public Schools’ mission, vision, and FPS Strategic Plan, district leadership and the Education Association of Framingham (EAF) have partnered in this important community outreach effort since 2017. Since its inception, our program has grown from 23 trained teachers visiting 36 families to a total of 594 trained teachers and 664 families. Let’s double that engagement this year!
For more information and to get involved, please visit the FPS website. We are excited about this expanding relationship-building effort and we look forward to meeting more of our families in the year ahead!
Your partner in education,
Bob Tremblay