VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 1
Kimberly Avila, George Mason University, kavila@gmu.edu
Justin A. Haegele, Old Dominion University, jhaegele@odu.edu
Annemarie L. Horn, Radford University, alhorn1@radford.edu
Katelyn Makovec, Old Dominion University, ksmither@odu.edu
The Virginia Consortium for Teacher Preparation in Blindness and Vision
Impairment (VI Consortium) is a collaborative personnel preparation program
consisting of George Mason University (Mason), Old Dominion University
(ODU), and Radford University (RU). Funded by a grant from the Virginia
Department of Education (VDOE), the VI Consortium trains teachers to work with
students who are blind and visually impaired as teachers of students with visual
impairments (TSVIs) across the Commonwealth of Virginia. Each of our partner
universities recruits, advises, enrolls, and confers degrees for teacher candidates.
Mason serves as the primary institution, coordinating grants, awarding sub-
The Virginia Consortium for Teacher
Preparation in Blindness and Vision
Impairment: Program Overview and Structure
