"Greater Than Great!" A Teachers Home Visit Changes a Young Child's Life

Family involvement Research confirms the importance of family-school partnerships for student attendance, achievement, and academic independence (Epstein & Sheldon 2002; Matuszny, Banda, & Coleman 2007). When I taught at a public school, I often visited children's homes to discuss school activities, share updates on classroom activities and progress, or work with a family to address a behavior issue. Typically, Early ilead Start and early intervention programs use home visits to inform family members about local services and programs (Bouhebent 2008), instructor model strategies for improving therapies or parent-child interactions (Peterson etal. 2007), and maximize parentchild engagement by demonstratingunique strategies or interventions and teachingparents how to incorporate them into daily routines and activities ~Keilty 2008).