HOME WORKS - THVP

HOME WORKS! goals for the 2022-2023 school year:
Improve parent-teacher relationships.
Increase positive parent-teacher communications.
Reduce perceived barriers to school engagement and increase parenting confidence and support for children’s learning at home.
Improve students’ classroom engagement and behavior.
Improve student’s school attendance.
Improve student’s reading and math proficiency.

The HOME WORKS! Program leaders and evaluation team established program outcomes that were specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound (SMART). The targets associated with each outcome are based on both previous program performance with potential for growth each year, and outcome findings from studies of comparable programs.

HOME WORKS! short-term measurable outcomes in the 2021-2022 School Year are:
All Programs:
Parents demonstrate a 10% reduction in perceived barriers to engagement in schools
Students who attend school less than 90% of the year demonstrate a 5% improvement in school attendance after the initial home visit

Teacher Home Visit Program and Fellowship Program:
Teachers perceive an improvement in their relationships with students’ families – at least 90% of teachers ‘strongly agree’ that a home visit improved their relationship with the parent
Parents demonstrate a 10% increase in parenting confidence in the ability to support children’s learning at home
Parents report a 10% increase in supportive parenting behaviors that improve children’s learning
Parents perceive a 10% improvement in their children’s learning behaviors outside of school
Of the students who have a demonstrated concern in classroom engagement or behavior, teachers perceive that at least 60% of students whose families participated in HOME WORKS! program components show improvement.
30% of students will show at least one year’s academic growth as indicated by scores on school-administered benchmark assessments

Learning Lab:
Teachers perceive 10% improvement in the quality of their relationships with students’ families
At least 60% of parents have one documented in-person visit to the school

Fellowship Program:
Teachers demonstrate a 10% increase in perceived staff-family relationship quality
Teachers record a 20% increase in parent-initiated communications following an initial teacher home visit.
Students who attend school less than 90% of the year demonstrate a 10% improvement in school attendance after the initial home visit.

HOME WORKS! (HW!) has two programs this school year. 1. Our Core Program of Teacher Home Visits and Parent-Teacher Workshops 2. Fellowship Program

1. Teacher Home Visits and Parent-Teacher Workshops
HW! trains, supports, and pays teachers in underserved schools to make visits (virtual and in-person) to the homes of low-performing students, and to lead parent-teacher workshops to engage parents in their children’s education in six urban, suburban, and rural schools. HW! teachers:

Make two home visits per student per year with two teachers on each visit.
Lead two parent-teacher workshops where parents review grade-level expectations, learn strategies to use at home for their children's educational success.
Work with parents to set goals that are reviewed throughout the year.
Complete mandatory teacher training and are provided with ongoing HW! support throughout the school year.

2. HOME WORKS! Fellowship Program
A new exciting, ambitious project (3+ years) at two SLPS elementary schools - Nance and Hickey - that trains teachers to expand their knowledge of school-home engagement, and enable HW! to make deeper inroads into gathering and aggregating crucial hard-to-get data to understand how school-home engagement can be more effective, and improve student performance. Fellows are paid an annual stipend and commit to:
Make monthly, positive, individualized communications home.
Complete at least 40 home visits.
Plan and lead two Parent-Teacher Workshops.
Attend quarterly meetings to bring Fellows and HW! staff together to share experiences, learnings, and ideas.
Fulfill ongoing data collection responsibilities (contacts with home, post-visit logs, surveys).
Participate for multiple years.

Parents complete surveys after each home visit and after participating in parent-teacher workshops. Teachers and other staff complete surveys at the end of each school year to share information about their home visiting experiences, including perceived barriers and challenges, successes, and perceptions of the impact of home visits on teachers, students, and families.

Teacher surveys for the 2020-2021 academic year showed the following positive results:-
• 97% of teachers strongly agreed/agreed that virtual home visits helped families stay connected to teachers and schools during COVID.
• 96% of teachers strongly agreed/agreed that virtual home visits helped build more positive relationships with parents of students.
• 96% of teachers strongly agreed/agreed that virtual home visits promoted more positive parental attitudes toward school.
• 96% of teachers strongly agreed/agreed that virtual home visits strengthened their understanding of their student’s cultures and home lives.

Outcome 1. More than 75% of staff trained report feeling “confident” in their ability to conduct virtual visits with families.
Result: 92% of staff reported feeling “very confident” in their ability to conduct virtual visits with families.

Outcome 2. More than 90% of teacher logs completed after first virtual home visits show teachers “strongly agreed” that virtual home visits improved their relationship with families.
Result: 97% of teacher logs completed showed teachers “strongly agreed” that virtual home visits improved their relationships with families.

Outcome 3. More than 30% of families who received virtual home visits also attend at least one virtual parent-teacher workshop.
Result: 32% of families who received virtual home visits also attended at least one parent-teacher workshop.

Outcome 4. More than 50% of teachers observe improvements in student success.
Result: 69% of teachers strongly agree/agree that students who participated in the HW! program saw improvements in overall academic performance.