Georgia Vision Educators Statewide Training (GVEST)
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About.

The GVEST mission is to provide educators an opportunity to learn and to share effective practices and strategies specific to the needs of students with visual impairments.

GVEST History

In 2000, the Georgia Department of Education introduced a new conference and called it Georgia Vision Educators Statewide Training, or GVEST. Now, GVEST continues as multiple agencies dedicated to serving students with sensory impairments collaborate to offer professional development training focused on the needs of this population.
GVEST provides an opportunity for Georgia's educators who serve students with visual impairments to have specialized training and to share effective practices and strategies specific to the needs of students with visual impairments. The annual GVEST conference typically takes place in Macon Georgia each October and provides workshops led by experts in the field of blindness.

GVEST Conference Planning Committee

GVEST would like to gratefully acknowledge the members of the conference planning committee along with Smokey Powell staff for their support and assistance in the planning and implementation of the 20th Annual GVEST program.
Greg Aikens

Greg Aikens

Project BEGIN Program Manager with the Center for Visually Impaired (CVI)
Tara Bowie

Tara Bowie

Outreach Education Program Specialist
Smokey Powell Center
Georgia Academy for the Blind
Sarah Bussey

Sarah Bussey

Southeast Region Vision/O&M Services Coordinator
M.S.Ed Special Education
TBVI, COMS, CVRT
Allied Instructional Service
Dawn Day

Dawn Day

Curriculum Director, Georgia Academy for the Blind
Heidi Evans

Heidi Evans

Director, Georgia PINES
Georgia Parent Infant Network for Educational Services
Georgia Department of Education
Tracy Fitch

Tracy Fitch

TVI with Marrietta City Schools; Owner & Developer of Tracy Fitch Educational Services LLC
Danny Housley

Danny Housley​

Assistive Technology Acquisition Manager with Tools for Life, Georgia's Assistive Technology Act Program overseeing Credit-Able, Georgia's Alternative Financing Program. ​​
Sharon Lyttle

Sharon Lyttle

Outreach Education Program Specialist.
Smokey Powell Center 
Georgia Academy for the Blind
Zel Murray

Zel Murray

GVEST Committee Chair, Education Program Coordinator/
GaDOE Statewide Vision Coordinator
Smokey Powell Center
Georgia Academy for the Blind
Shirley Robinson

Shirley Robinson

Assistant Director for Blind Services Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Center
Martha Veto at the beach

Martha Veto

Education Specialist, Georgia Sensory Assistance Project
Carmen Willings

Carmen Willings

TVI with Forsyth County Schools; Owner & Developer of Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
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Donate to GVEST

​Thank you for your interest in supporting GVEST! If you would like to make a donation to help us continue to offer no and low-cost professional development opportunities, you may send a check payable to GVEST and send it to our mailing address. Thank you for your support!
gvestmembers@gmail.com
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