<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">Dear Blind Educators,</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Karen Anderson, Education Program Coordinator at the national office, has reached out looking for blind educators and TVIs to participate in a focus group. The Blind Unbound project is looking for feedback about curriculum similar to the Braille is Beautiful which can be used in a classroom to teach kids about blindness. There are two sessions for blind educators and two separate sessions for teachers of blind students. They are raffling off some gift cards as an incentive to participate. I am including the registration link but it will be scrubbed if you receive your NOBE email in the digest format. If that happens and you want the registration link, you can email me at lsowell@nfbtx.org and I will send it to you. I am also posting the registration link to our Facebook group. </div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://nfb.org/form/education-focus-group"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://nfb.org/form/education-focus-group" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E6E6E6;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img alt="facebook-og.jpg" src="cid:70B0DEB9-D0EE-4ADD-BED9-09B3919F2705"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E6E6E6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(230, 230, 230, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://nfb.org/form/education-focus-group" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);">Focus Group: Curriculum and Educational Resources on Blind People | National Federation of the Blind</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://nfb.org/form/education-focus-group" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);">nfb.org</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div>Here is what Karen sent to me:</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">As part of our Blind Unbound project, we are looking at putting together a new version of the Braille is Beautiful curriculum that we distributed more than a decade ago. As such, we are looking to get feedback from blind teachers about what kinds of resources would be helpful for them if they were to do something about blindness in their classes, or what kind of things they wish were out in the world that aren\u2019t currently. We are hosting several focus groups, two that are specifically for blind educators, and two that are for teachers of blind students be they blind or sighted teachers. The focus groups for blind educators are scheduled for <span dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">May 18</span>and 19, and, because we know that teachers\u2019 time is valuable, we have planned for several raffled off gift cards as a thank you for those who give us their time. Would you be willing to circulate this information, and the below registration link, to any blind educators you know?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://nfb.org/form/education-focus-group" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">https://nfb.org/form/education-focus-group</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br></span></p><div dir="ltr"><div><b>All the best,</b></div><div><b>Lara Sowell</b></div><b>Sent from my iPhone<br></b><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>