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We have a lot of exciting happenings at IESBVI. Learn more about recent news below and be on the lookout for our newsletter.

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January Issue of Connecting Families Newsletter

Posted on:February 1, 2023 Post categories: For Families

Select the link below to read the January 2023 newsletter!

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IESBVI faculty co-authors textbook

Posted on:January 22, 2023 Post categories: Uncategorized

An IESBVI math consultant knows so much about how to teach Nemeth Code, she helped write the book on it. Sara Larkin is now an author of a textbook used by universities across the country.  Larkin, along with three teachers of the visually impaired from around the United States collaborated over the last three years to write Learning […]

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IESBVI goes national: teachers write lesson plan for the country

Posted on:January 22, 2023 Post categories: Uncategorized

Everyone can code. IESBVI staff Jennifer Bliss (science, technology, engineering and math consultant) and Sara Larkin (math consultant) developed one of five national coding lesson plans to help visually impaired students become more familiar with vocabulary and concepts of coding for the American Printing House (APH) National Coding Symposium last spring.  Sponsored by the APH, the goals of […]

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2023 IESBVI Spring Family Conference Registration Now Open

Posted on:January 6, 2023 Post categories: For Families

Registration is now open for the 2023 IESBVI Spring Family Conference to be held at Camp Courageous in Monticello, Iowa!!!  The keynote speaker will be Eliana Mason, Goalball Silver medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games.  Register for the IESBVI Spring Family Conference today – it’s FREE!  We even provide stipends to those families attending: […]

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Spring Family Conference is coming

Posted on:December 13, 2022 Post categories: For Families

SPRING! SPRING? But it’s winter! Yes, but our SPRING FAMILY CONFERENCE is coming! Friday evening, March 24 and Saturday, March 25, 2023 will be the BIG event! It will be held at Camp Courageous in Monticello. Friday evening will be Pizza and Pool time at Camp Courageous. Our families will be the only ones in […]

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Save the Date: Spring Family Conference 2023

Posted on:December 1, 2022 Post categories: For Families

Spring Family Conference will be held Friday, March 24 – Saturday March, 25, 2023. Registration information will be posted in January.

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Winter Issue of Connecting with Families Newsletter

Posted on:December 1, 2022 Post categories: For Families

Select the link below to read the November 2022 newsletter!

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O&M receives Regent’s top honor

Posted on:November 9, 2022 Post categories: Uncategorized

Pictured above: Brian Werts (right) and Jonathan Karli, Regional Director, at the Board of Regents meeting in Council Bluffs on Nov. 9. Brian Werts, orientation and mobility specialist with Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired (IESBVI) was awarded the Board of Regents, State of Iowa’s Faculty Excellence Award at the Board’s meeting […]

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200+ topics covered in first year

Posted on:October 24, 2022 Post categories: Uncategorized

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. When IESBVI TVI and O&M staff are hired, there are some 200 aspects to their new position which they need to learn in their first year of employment, and review in their second. This mammoth training requirement is broken into about 20 monthly topics, […]

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