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standards. Carlie Rhoades and Deborah spent hours formatting our standards and our
literature review documents to present to the larger CEC organization. During the
conference in Boston, the work all came together as the documents we re presented to
the knowledge and skills committee for review. After that meeting, numerous phone calls
were made to continue to refine and polish our documents. They have now been
presented to the larger CEC professional standards committee for review a nd preparation
for a validation survey.
In addition, this last year also saw the fruition of 2 years of work on the constitution
and bylaws. Constitution committee chair, Lou Tutt, lead the effort to clean up the
structures of the committees and define roles of committee members. This motion
passed in our last election and the new structures will be in place as president - elect Amy
Parker begins her work with the organization. The updates are now part of the
constitution that will be on file with CEC al ong with additional legal paperwork that was
finalized to ensure that our division had a good foundation and guidance for the work that
we do.
Looking back at the work, I celebrate the contributions that so many have made.
Without the effort of our boar d and volunteers, our socials and convention would not be
possible. So many stepped up to make sure that the proposals were reviewed, the
membership table had displays and information about our organization, the social location
was scouted, meeting locati ons were found, awards given, and sponsors identified. The
board has been amazing. I thank Nicole Johnson and her students for their work on so
many convention events. The Visual Impairment and Deafblind Education Quarterly has
been published on time th e past 2 years thanks to our editor, Kathleen Farrand. The "Q"