[3] She began as a teacher in the Los Angeles, California public school system in 1927.
[2] Due to her vision loss in the 1940s, she was forced from her position as Vice Principal at Belvedere Junior High School into early retirement by the Board of Education.
[1][3] The National Federation of the Blind and the Belvedere Junior High School Faculty Club fought the Board of Education to keep her out of forced disability retirement.
[3] In February 1949, Grant was removed from her teaching position at Belvedere and placed at Polytechnic High School.
[2] In August 1962, she received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to educate teachers in Pakistan about teaching blind children.
[1] Grant felt blind students should be educated alongside their sighted peers.
[1][3] She believed this helps to prepare the children who are blind to live in a sighted world.
[1] This was most positively received in developing countries where they lacked funding to build separate schools for blind students.
[2] During one of her yearlong trips, she visited twenty-three countries, including Great Britain, Fiji, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
[1] For this trip, The American Action Fund for Blind Children provided Grant with a $2,000 stipend for her travel and expenses.
She would collect Braille books, typewriters, music, paper, watches, and folding canes.
[1] In 1964, Grant became the first woman to receive the Newell Perry award from the National Federation of the Blind.
There were challenges to writing her book, from Braille notes being flattened from the humidity in the tropical climate where she traveled to difficulty finding a publisher.
[1][3][2] Isabelle Grant died in 1977, on the day before she was to leave for New York to present to the United Nations about the needs of people who are blind.
Crooked Paths Made Straight: A Blind Teachers Adventures Traveling Around the World.