VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 1
mosaic that reflects efforts to engage, educate, and empower both students
and professionals.
In addition to sharing the region's bounty, we offer some insight into
DVIDB's initiative to revalidate our teacher of deafblind and interveners
competencies. Using CEC's consensual validation process, we are
beginning to engage strand leaders and external agency partners to
systematically review competencies that guide personnel development
efforts for serving students who are deafblind, connecting this work to
efforts on the advocacy front to support the Cogswell-Macy Act.
This message is also bittersweet for me as it is my last as President.
As I reflect on what DVIDB is building, I feel happy about our continued
efforts to engage and encourage educator leaders, to celebrate the work of
researchers and practitioners and to sustain knowledge and skills
competencies that guide our services to students with visual impairments
or deafblindness. I also take pleasure in welcoming Dr. Nicole Johnson as
your President for 2020-2021. I'm thankful to have served and will continue
to support Nicole and our wonderful board. In closing, I wish you a joyful
New Year and hope to connect with you in our beautiful Rose City at our
international convention in February!
