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Describes challenges teachers face when limited time and infrequent contact reduce understanding of parents’ hopes and dreams. Presents a 2010 Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project initiative in Saint Paul, outlining training for educators, strategies for setting up visits, and how targeted questions help teachers learn students’ needs. Highlights wraparound services, community school supports, and the resulting shift from assumptions to collaborative relationships.","THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR  \nConnecting with Students and Families through Home Visits  \nProfessional educators—in the classroom, library, counseling center, or anywhere in between—share one overarching goal: ensuring all students receive the rich, well-rounded education they need to be productive, engaged citizens. In this regular feature, we explore the work of professional educators—their accomplishments and their challenges—so that the lessons they have learned can benefit students across the country. After all, listening to the professionals who do this work every day is a blueprint for success.  \nBy Nick Faber  \nA  \ns educators, we have many hopes and dreams for our students. We want them to succeed academically and reach their full potential during their time in our classrooms and beyond. eir parents do as well. All par-  \nents, no matter who they are or what life has dealt them, want their children to succeed. For a variety of reasons, when our students come from low-income families, we as teachers and school support sta􀀜 may not interact with their parents as much aswe’d like. We may not get to know them and learn of their hopes and dreams for their children—our students. As a result, we build assumptions  \nParents know things about their children that can make usbetter educators, but except for one or two parent-teacher conferences each year, we may not see them at school much or get an opportunity to talk with them about their child’s interests. Many parents work long hours at multiple jobs to provide for their families. It’s not the interest in their child’s education they lack but the time to devote to it.  \nIn 2010, as a way to build stronger partnerships between parents and their child’s teacher, I helped bring the Parent/ Teacher Home Visit Project* to Saint Paul, Minnesota, where I have been a teacher for 29 years. e project is a national nonpro􀀞t organization that was established in 1996 in California. It  \nILLUSTRAT IONS BY VIKTOR KOEN  \nabout families, as they do about us.  \nNick Faber is the vice president of the Saint Paul Federation of Teachers. He has taught in the Saint Paul Public Schools for 29 years as an elementary school science teacher, earning national board certi􀀛cation in 1995. 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