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Additionally, we had a fabulous social event at Convention where we got to
honor our awardees that were in attendance. Lee Sonnenberg, Executive Director
of AER was also in attendance. Thank you to AER for being a Gold Level
Sponsor! Our other sponsors included Allied Instructional Services (Gold),
American Printing House, Accessibyte, Shawnee State University, and the Braille
Institute (silver). Our university sponsors were Texas Tech College of Education
and San Francisco State University.
In March, we also held a virtual awards ceremony for our annual award
winners. I'd like to recognize them once again here:
• Deborah D. Hatton Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award, Dr.
Katie Ericson
• Distinguished Service Award, Rosel Dalisay
• Teacher of the Year Award, Spencer Churchill
• Virginia M. Sowell Student of the Year Award, Dr. Saurym Quezada
• Exemplary Advocate Award, Katrina Dubree
Stay tuned for upcoming webinars and make sure to get in your proposals
for next year's CEC Convention in Ohio. The Call for Proposals will be open from
May 1-June 1, 2026. We would love to hear about the great work you are doing!
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