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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Topical Discussion via Zoom<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Back by popular demand: Topical Zoom discussion groups: Week 2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulations to all of you who participated in, or will participate in, one of the five scheduled zoom meetings this week. We are again going to host the same meetings next week in the same order as this week. If you participated in the meetings that you selected for this week, please do not sign up again. Your information will be carried over to next week. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Additionally, we are going to have two new groups, one for employment specialists on Monday and another for youth service specialists on Tuesday. The full schedule is listed below. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For only those persons who wish to participate in one of these two new meetings, or if you did not get in the meeting you wanted for this week, please click the following link to get yourself registered. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://nbpcb.org/zoominvite.php"><b>Register Here for Zoom Meeting</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Following is the schedule for each instructional area: <b>(Note: These will be scheduled for two-hour blocks to accommodate work and time zone preferences—You need not attend the entire session)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Center Directors/Administrators: Monday, April 20 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. Central time.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Employment specialists: Monday, April 20 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. Central time.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Cane Travel Instructors: Tuesday, April 21 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Youth Services Specialists: Tuesday, April 21 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Braille/Communications Instructors: Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Access Tech/Communications Instructors: Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>(Note, Braille and Technology groups will be split into two separate rooms<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Home Management/ADL/ILS/Shop Instructors: Thursday, April 23 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Rehab counselors/teachers/TBS/TVI: Friday, April 24 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b> Note: If you no longer want to participate in these meetings, send an email to me and I will remove your name. <a href="mailto:ebell@latech.edu">ebell@latech.edu</a><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Together, let’s make week two even bigger and stronger<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Louisiana Tech University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PO Box 3158<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ruston LA 71272<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: 318.257.4554 Fax: 318.257.2259 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ebell@latech.edu"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ebell@latech.edu</span></a> www.pdrib.com<o:p></o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;border-right:none;padding:1.0pt 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'>*************<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>"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."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> -- Stephen Jay Gould<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>