Dear SD Center Director and Certified Professionals The National Blindness Professional Certification Board will be holding a zoom meeting that will include only the directors and staff from our certified centers along with individuals who are currently certified by the NBPCB. The purpose of the training is to cover some broad topics relevant to all individuals in work at certified SD centers, and to establish a forum for instructional staff to discuss curricular ideas and instructional topics. Date: Friday, August 23, 2024 Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Central Standard Time Location: Zoom information to be provided later I am asking you to use the following link to register yourself for this event. During the training we will plan to have individuals separate into breakout groups according to their instructional area or according to their certification. For this reason, it is important that each person register themselves and register with the email address they have associated with zoom and/or will plan to use for the zoom meeting. During the registration, you are asked to select your instructional area, from administrators, to instructional areas such as cane travel, braille/communications, access technology, home management/independent living, or other instructional area. Please note: We are setting Monday, August 19 as the deadline for all individuals to register for this training. This deadline will allow us time to ensure that only certified individuals are allowed to participate, that individuals are properly assigned to the appropriate breakout rooms, and that information is conveyed to you in a timely manner. If you are not sure which area you should sign up under or if you have questions about whether a person should be included in this training event, please reach out to Edward Bell at ebell at pdrib.com <mailto:ebell at pdrib.com> The link to register is here: NBPCB Training Registration Link <https://nbpcb.org/guestreg> Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness College of Education and Human Sciences 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 <http://www.pdrib.com/> 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