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Posted on May 22, 2018August 6, 2025 by admin

Braille Institute Names Jeri Hile 2018 Teacher of the Year

May 22, 2018 by

Leader in the Field for Blind and Visually Impaired Inspires Her Students to Pursue Higher Education and Be Independent While Promoting Braille Literacy

Los Angeles — May 21, 2018 — Braille Institute has named Jeri Hile its 2018 “Teacher of the Year” for excellence in Braille Instruction. Jeri, a Teacher of the Visually Impaired for the Shawnee Mission Public Schools, one of the major school districts in the Kansas City metropolitan area, is being recognized for her dedication, innovation and creativity in teaching students who are visually impaired or blind.

“Jeri Hile is a gifted teacher and a valuable role model for students,” said Peter A. Mindnich, president, Braille Institute. “She is an innovative educator who promotes braille literacy through creative lesson plans and technology. Jeri also uses mathematics to help her students think logically in order to assist them to realize their full potential.” He added that Jeri specializes in helping prepare her students for college and careers by fostering independent living and self-determination skills. “Jeri’s impact on her students’ lives is immeasurable, and we feel privileged to be able to honor her this way,” Mindnich said.

A teacher for the visually impaired for a decade, Jeri was nominated by the family of one of her students. They attribute their daughter’s success in school directly to Jeri’s dedication and teaching skills, saying that she “knows how to push her students to want to learn, and not just learn, but to excel.” Her dedication has shown results as students have succeeded in college and the workforce.

Jeri is steeped in the basics and is well versed in adaptive technology, which she uses to great advantage with her students. She works hard at fostering independence in her students. For example, she teaches students all important financial literacy. She also provides them with hands-on experience for things that sighted people take for granted, such as making a tactile drawing of a baseball field and then visiting an actual baseball field to help the students understand the concept.

Jeri said, “More than anything else, I want my students to be confident in themselves, their skills and abilities—and know that being blind is just a small part of who they are. I encourage them to become independent and believe that they can achieve anything as long as they are willing to work hard and learn the necessary skills. I have high expectations that as a result of what they are learning, they will be able to face any challenge that may arise, either in their personal life or the workplace.”

A leader in the field of visual impairment, Jeri has delivered presentations and workshops at the Kansas AER Annual Conference and Regional Area Vision Professional Group Meeting, sponsored by Kansas State School for the Blind, and is co-author of a paper published by the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. She has been honored with an Envision TVI Award, for which she was nominated by both her students and peers. Jeri has also initiated several programs for her students, including a cooking club for children in middle school and higher. She has also helped organize and lead study groups for children who go to the national Braille Challenge.

Jeri earned her MS in Special Education with an emphasis on Visual Impairments from Missouri State University and her BS in Mathematics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is also a Certified Orientation and Mobility Instructor, as well as a Certified Braillist.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities and after school curricular activities, Jeri is a member of the Kansas State School for the Blind Advisory Board and is a Braille Certification Grader. She also served as secretary for the Kansas Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER).

The Teacher of the Year award is an opportunity for all teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs) to be recognized on a national level, for the indelible contribution they make to the lives of students who are blind or have severe vision loss. Any TVI in the US and Canada can be nominated by peers, students or parents. The Teacher of the Year is selected by The Braille Challenge National Advisory Committee and is invited to attend The Braille Challenge National Finals in Los Angeles, with all expenses paid. In addition, the Teacher of the Year receives a cash award and a BrailleNote Apex Notetaker, thanks to the support of HumanWare.

About Braille Challenge

Braille Challenge, sponsored by Braille Institute, is an annual academic competition designed to motivate students who are blind or visually impaired to emphasize their study of braille while rewarding their success with fun-filled, challenging local and national events. Any blind or visually impaired school age student can participate in a regional event (held January – March) in communities around the US and Canada. Top participants are invited to the National Braille Challenge Finals Competition (hosted this year on June 16 by Braille Institute in Los Angeles). Celebrating its 18th year, #BrailleChallenge2018 offered more than 1,000 students (this year alone) a chance to compete in five categories: reading comprehension, braille spelling, chart and graph reading, proofreading and braille speed and accuracy.

About Braille Institute of America

Braille Institute of America is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to eliminate barriers to a fulfilling life caused by blindness and severe sight loss. It serves thousands of people of all ages each year through an array of educational, social and recreational programs and services designed to help people with vision loss lead enriched and fulfilling lives. Funded by private donations, all services are completely free-of-charge. Braille Institute’s Los Angeles headquarters are located at 741 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles. For additional information, please visit www.braillechallenge.org or www.brailleinstitute.org. Follow on Facebook at facebook.com/brailleinstitute and facebook.com/brailleinstituteyouth and on twitter @BrailleInst

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Read The Secret 45 Goals of Communism Leaked to Congress in 1963

Posted on May 11, 2018August 6, 2025 by admin

Read The Secret 45 Goals of Communism Leaked to Congress in 1963

May 11, 2018 by

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In the early 1960’s US intelligence obtained the 45 goals communist internationals intended to carry out to destroy western civilization & Christianity

In 1963, congressman Hon. A.S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 communist goals into the congressional record in an attempt to warn America about the dangers of the movement.The congressman quoted from Cleon Skousen’s book “The Naked Communist.”

Read the 45 goals below or click here for a pdf link.

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of
the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as
they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court.

Source: Read The Secret 45 Goals of Communism Leaked to Congress in 1963

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1 Comment

Sadie R Slotterback

July 27, 2020

UNBELIEVABLE! This is exactly what is happening. I can’t understand why anyone would want to live vin a communist society. It’s happening right before our eyes.

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