The fact is, student learning happens from the moment kids rise until they go to sleep. Now, The Kimball Companies have used their award-winning Family Table Time placemat concept as the foundation for the first publication designed to reach both schools and families -- School House To Your House.

Beginning with its test program at Devon Aire K-8 in Miami, FL, School House To Your House is uniting schools and families like no program ever has before while improving parental involvement.


School House to Your House encourages real communication, not just between schools and parents, but between children and parents. Each week in the classroom, an important value is highlighted in the weekly
School House to Your House placemat, which is distributed to students of participating schools. Then, when SH2YH is brought home by the student, the conversation continues at each family’s dinner table.

School House to Your House engages a team of school administrators, teachers, and parents to create each issue’s content for weekly family meetings. This content is delivered through elementary and middle schools via School House to Your House placemats, which feature a weekly value, questions for family discussion, a teacher lesson plan, a parent tracker and a unique fold-out area on which a family may write and draw its thoughts and impressions.

  • • Schools benefit by establishing a system that increases parental involvement.
  • • Parents benefit by learning more about their child’s day in school and by holding meetings at the family table.
  • • Students benefit by being the catalyst for the entire SH2YH process. Students are charged with engaging their parents, and information flows through them from the school to the home.
It's the beginning of a new age in school/family communication, and School House to Your House is the tool for bonding teachers and parents for better schools and stronger families!