“I’m going to stop pretending. All the motivational quotes are simply not enough to withstand the emotional well-being support needed during this time. I’m sitting in a hole and it’s dark. I feel alone. I’m tired from the last two weeks of holding myself up, … Continue reading I Didn’t Sign Up for This
It’s finished. The school year 2019-2020 is laid to rest and will forever leave vivid memories for long to come. We started the fall with excitement of new learning and anticipation of starting a new decade, for a year which always sounded so futuristic to … Continue reading Restoration
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) altered the landscape of educational services for students with Visual Impairment in 2017. It was at this time that a memorandum addressed to state special education directors specifically drew a line in the sand for eligibility determination for … Continue reading Evaluating Students with 20/20 Vision
Dear Teachers, The days are long, but the years are short. Students enter our lives and seem to exit in the blink of an eye. There’s so much to do and yet so little time to tackle each warranted endeavor. Feeling unseen has to be … Continue reading An Open Letter to TVIs: You are Seen
The 3rd annual Day of Thanksgiving for TVIs falls on the first Monday following Thanksgiving. Be sure to mark your calendars now for 2 December 2019 and stay tuned to read an Open Letter to TVIs.
Our alphabet soup lingo has its own learning curve. Are other education disciplines saturated with as many acronyms as we have in our profession? Case point: A TVI‘s FVA on a boy with ROP provides the IEP team with data about how the VI impacts … Continue reading UEB Food for Thought
Hierarchy can’t be avoided in life. It’s everywhere; even in our speech. Just last week while at work I was approached by someone I didn’t know whom asked to borrow a piece of equipment. My immediate response, “I’m the low man on the totem pole … Continue reading From Marginalized to Elevated
February is the shortest month of the school year, yet notoriously the longest days to endure as we count down for spring. Prevent the February Blues from creeping-in to your work week by centering your attention on any one of these points of inspiration. Be … Continue reading Pay it Forward… With Encouragement
WARNING! Fact checking proceeds this introduction. Consider for a moment the ease of accessing almost any type of information by simply holding an iPhone or android device. A survey reported in 2007 revealed that Americans look at their phone about once every 12 minutes. If … Continue reading Debunking a VI Myth
