Teacher Home Visits and Their Effect of Connecting With Students and Parents

• In Event: 58.082 - Roundtable Session 25
  In Roundtable Session: 58.082-18 - Overcoming Deficit Mindset Practices in School, Family, Community Partnerships: The Promise of Home Visits

Abstract

In order to build relationships between the school and home, a Texas-based charter school system, serving 30,000+ students in kindergarten through 12th grade, implemented a teacher home visit program as part of their engagement process. The present study’s purpose was to determine if the home visit program improved the classroom behavior, academic achievement, and parental involvement of students who received home visits in the first half of the 2015-2016 school year. The results of this study indicate that the system’s home visit program has been effective. Students who received a home visit had significantly higher academic achievement, positive classroom behavior, and parental involvement compared to similar students in the same schools who did not receive a home visit.

Authors

• Samantha Michele Shields, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Katie Black, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Kim Boddie Wright, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Hersh C. Waxman, Texas A&M University