Moving Vision Up the Agenda: A Structured Framework that Provides a Starting Point and Common Language for School Teams and Families

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How do you get the school team and family on the same bus for vision? Which is the first bus stop and who gets on first and who gets off? What do you need when you are on the vision bus? Do you know what you are doing when you are on the vision bus?
How do you communicate with others on the bus? What language do you use?
Join us to learn more about the Positive Looking Bus and teams in Kentucky who are using this structured framework to support change.

Primary Learning Objectives:

To provide an overview of the structured framework of Positive Looking to support a common starting point and common language for school teams and families.
To share the pilot of Positive Looking with Kentucky School for the Blind and how it can promote change within a school district.
To share the non negotiables of universal design for ensuring access for learners who are blind, visually impaired and DeafBlind.

This session is presented on March 3, 2022 by Donna Carpenter, Robbin Cox, Jennifer Starks, Alisa Butler and Angela Powell.

Contributors

Dr. Donna Carpenter

Dr. Donna Carpenter is the State Coordinator for the Kentucky Deafblind Project. Donna worked as the technical assistance coordinator for the KDBP from 2006-2017 before assuming the State Coordinator Role in January 2017. Donna is a certified teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Elementary Certified Teacher, Montessori Early Childhood Certified with her doctorate in Educational Leadership. She is very interested in how we present our children to other professionals and how to create a positive mindsets using photo stories from families. She loves her job!
Alisa Butler

Alisa Butler is a Moderate/Severe Disability teacher at Pembroke Elementary School in Christian County, KY. Alisa has obtained a BS in Elementary Education and a MA in Teacher Leader Special Education both from Campbellsville University (Campbellsville, KY). Alisa has taught the alternate assessment curriculum in an elementary school self-contained classroom from 2014-present, with the exception of one year where she served as a resource teacher and 1 year where she served as a paraprofessional in an MSD classroom. Prior to teaching in her own classroom she worked as a paraprofessional in a MSD classroom for 2 years.
Jennifer Starks

Jennifer Starks is the Teacher for Visually Impaired in Christian County, KY. She is a US Army veteran. Jennifer has obtained a BS in Biology and a MA in Special Education. She is certified as a Special Education Teacher (Learning and Behavior Disabilities), and Teacher for Visual Impairments. Jennifer taught the alternate assessment curriculum in a high school self-contained classroom from 2009-2016 before becoming an itinerant TVI covering multiple school districts in 2016.
Robbin Cox

Robbin Cox is the Outreach Consultant for KY School for the Blind in the western region. She is a certified teacher of the visually impaired and of special education and has taught in MS, TN, and KY. Robbin lives in Paducah, KY with her husband Chip. They have 2 sons and 3 grandchildren.
Angela Powell

Angela Powell is the Outreach Consultant for Kentucky School for the Blind in the Green River Region. She is a certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired (West Virginia University), of Special Education (Indiana University), and has a Rank 1 in Educational Leadership (Campbellsville University). She started her career as a Special Education Teacher and then served as a TVI for several districts before becoming an Outreach Consultant for KSB. She lives in Grayson County, Kentucky with her husband Josh, son and daughter.

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Contributors

Dr. Donna Carpenter

Alisa Butler

Jennifer Starks

Robbin Cox

Angela Powell