BAIS believes that families are essential partners in helping students achieve academically and socially.
Teachers are trained early in the school year on how to complete successful home visits and will be encouraged to complete home visits for their students within the first few months of school. These home visits create the foundation for productive communication and authentic engagement with families. Home visits are all about building a relationship. During the home visit, teachers ask the parents to do most of the talking. Family members describe the goals and expectations they have for their child, explain their child’s strengths and weaknesses as they see them, and any hopes or concerns they have for their child. The teachers are there to listen and answer questions that the parents have. By the end of the home visit it is the hope that the parent and the teacher have created the beginning of a bond that will grow and develop throughout the year(s) that the student attends BAIS. This bond will be fostered through communication, events, and opportunities for the teacher and the parent to engage in new and different ways.
We will continue to partner with 1647 Foundation to provide high quality home visits. Through this partnership, teachers and staff are paid for visits to occur off-site on nights & weekends.
The Home Visit program at Bentley Academy is funded in part by the City of Salem Department of Planning & Community Development, U.S. Department of Housing & Development.
The Bentley Academy Home Visit program does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender or gender identity, familial status, disability, ancestry, age, marital status, public assistance status, sexual orientation, veteran history/military status or genetic information.
