Opening Doors 2024-25
Updated on 06/01/2025
June 4-7, 2025 @ ISVI Campus - 658 East State St., Jacksonville, IL 62650 It's going to be an Amazing 2025 Opening Doors! Parents, caregivers, and providers will receive a lot of information, network, and much more.Early Intervention and Professional development credit is also available.. For more information contactMrs. Michelle Clark michelle.clark@illinois.gov217-479-4414 === === ===
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Super-Kds Day
Updated on 03/23/2025
Quincy's Optimist Club's Annual Super Kids Race is in the books.In addition to the Optimist Soap Box Derby, the Quincy Optimist Club allows children with special needs to race with a buddy driver. All the buddy racers are volunteers.For the past seven years, the club has held the Super Kids Race the day prior to the Quincy Optimist Soap Box Derby.The past 2 years, the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired has brought over some local as well as the participants from our Summer Camp. The priceless experience has been unbelievable. For more information, visit quincyderby.com
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Welcome / Multiple Video's & Tour of ISVI
Updated on 02/15/2025
Welcome to our Virtual Tour of ISVI!Thank you for visiting our web site! Below are 7 links to separate Videos. The first two are about ISVI while 4 are news reports from Channel 20 out of Springfield on two of the several sports we participate in - Goalball and Track. At the end there's yet another Video of our Opening Doors Program. This website's goal is to be an added resource as to all the great opportunities that are happening for the students at ISVI. For more detailed school information click on ISVI's State website. You can also find links taking you directly to other local schools in Jacksonville such as ISD, Routt, & JHS. We are fortunate in that both Routt & JHS work directly with both ISD & ISVI. We are also proud to be a Leader in Me School. We're still a work in progress as we continue to include what's happening at our sister schools in town. It's a family
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Support our Students / School
Updated on 03/25/2025
We are very thankful of all the organizations and business' that support our students, school, and activities. The donations, advertisements, and sponsors obviously help us by their financial donations, but equally important: they help us to build stronger connections between the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired and the community. As with every school, budgets are tight and the cost of activities and sports continue to rise. ISVI is a residential school in which our students are from all over the state. Unlike our local public schools, the vast majority of our students are not local. At the same time, our students are integrated throughout Jacksonville and as a result, Jacksonville becomes their 2nd home. From their first day of attendance, our students learn to advocate for themselves and become as independent as possible. We’re fortunate in that this community embraces all the schools. This is evident by the
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2025 CAMP LIONS
Posted on 12/15/2024
Camp Lions Registration Opens in early January! Students with low vision/blind and/or hard of hearing/deaf are all eligibleVisit https://lionsofillinoisfoundation.org/
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Article on 175 Years
Updated on 03/23/2025
Jacksonville Journal Courier
% ISVI Celebrating 175 years
By Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree
REPORTER
Illinois School for the Visually Impaired is celebrating 175 years of education for those with visual impairments in the state with a series of events and activities.
From planting flowers to alumni gatherings and a gala, the school is trying to showcase its history and connect those it has served.
The school was established on Jan. 13, 1849, to serve the visually impaired population and, under various names, has helped expand services for students throughout the years, ISVI Superintendent Aimee Veith said.
“We’ve had a longstanding history of educating our students,” Veith said. “I think 175 years is a wonderful amount of time to be serving the community.”
The school has had smaller events throughout the school year and will continue to celebrate its history the rest of the year, Veith said.
This weekend, the school will have a gala t
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Flag Day : June 14
Updated on 03/23/2025
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14th.It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. Both President Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in 1927, issued proclamations asking for June 14 to be observed as the National Flag Day. But it wasn't until August 3, 1949, that Congress approved the national observance, and President Harry Truman signed it into law.
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Father's Day : June 15
Updated on 03/23/2025
Father's Day is a holiday of honoring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society.
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Juneteenth . June 19
Updated on 03/23/2025
>Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
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Title IX June 23, 1972
Updated on 03/23/2025
53 years ago on June 23rd, Title IX of the Education Amendments was signed into law. This game changing law “is a comprehensive law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in all programs or activities in all federally funded educational institutions including high schools and middle schools” (Pennepacker, 2021). When you interpret the law, it allows women and girls to participate in middle school, high school, and college sports without discrimination.To this day, women and girls have accomplished and broke through many barriers thanks to Title IX. It's important to highlight some of the pioneers/advocates of this movement and to thank them for their relentless efforts: Edith Louise Starrett Green, Billie Jean King, and Peg Pennepacker.
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Independence Day : July 4
Updated on 03/23/2025
Independence Day, also called Fourth of July or July 4th, in the United States, the annual celebration of nationhood.It commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. ... Such festivals had long played a significant role in the Anglo-American political tradition.
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