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             A number of years ago the Blind Educator of the Year Award was
established by the National Organization of Blind Educators (the educators
division of the National Federation of the Blind) to pay tribute to a blind
teacher whose exceptional classroom performance, notable community service,
and uncommon commitment to the NFB merit national recognition. Beginning
with the 1991 presentation, this award became an honor bestowed by our
entire movement. The change reflects our recognition of the importance of
good teaching and the affect an outstanding blind teacher has on students,
faculty, community, and all blind Americans.
             This award is presented in the spirit of the outstanding
educators who founded and have continued to nurture the National Federation
of the Blind and who, by example, have imparted knowledge of our strengths
to us and raised our expectations. We have learned from Dr. 
Jacobus tenBroek, Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, Dr. Marc Maurer, and our current
president Mark Riccobono  that a teacher not only provides a student with
information but also provides guidance, advocacy, and love. The recipient of
the Blind Educator of the Year Award must exhibit all of these traits and
must advance the cause of blind people in the spirit and philosophy of the
National Federation of the Blind.
The Blind Educator of the Year Award is presented at the annual convention
of the National Federation of the Blind. Honorees must be present to receive
an appropriately inscribed plaque and a check for $1,000.
             Nominations should be sent to Dr. 
Edward Bell, director, PDRIB, by email at ebell at latech.edu, or by mail to
PDRIB, Louisiana Tech University, PO Box 3158, Ruston, LA 71272. 
Letters of nomination must be accompanied by a copy of the nominee’s current
résumé and supporting documentation of community and Federation activity.
All nomination materials must be in the hands of the committee chairman by
May 1, 2019, to be considered for this year’s award. For further information
contact Edward Bell at (318) 257-4554, or ebell at latech.edu.


Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, Professional Development and
Research Institute on Blindness Louisiana Tech University
600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall
PO Box 3158
Ruston LA 71272
Office: 318.257.4554                      Fax: 318.257.2259
<mailto:ebell at latech.edu>ebell at latech.edu  www.pdrib.com
*************
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of  Einstein's
brain than in the near certainty that people of equal  talent have lived and
died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
-- Stephen Jay Gould




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