Pamela Blankenship

1. It’s All In The Fine Print
While discussions across the country focuses on education and funding all of this attention has not done anything to increase funding for basic necessities for classroom teachers. As a 21 year veteran in the field , I remember budgets that included over $100,000 in textbook funds alone. Now a…Read More

I teach a yearbook/media class and through an ARI Grant, we purchased a class camera last year (thank you!) Before that, the students and I relied on our cell phones to take photos. We could not take quality photos in many cases, such as in our school’s gym, where most of our schools’s major events take place, because the gym has such poor lig…Read More

Hello, everyone! First off, I would like to give my thanks to KVEC and funding these grants for our classrooms for so many years. It is through these grants that I have had the ability to move my classroom forward in so many ways I would have otherwise had zero means to do so. This year I was blessed to receive 3 grants.
1.) The Classrooms A…Read More

Jenkins: Then and Now

Our innovation grant will go toward a placed based learning project with the goal to create a virtual tour of Jenkins, Ky. Our focus will be to examine how immigration impacted every aspect of Jenkins KY, from the structure of the city, jobs and even the leisure lives of those who lived her long ago. This project will have…Read More

“True Cavalier Pride” is to reconnect JHS students with true Cavalier Pride, while also developing historical thinking and writing skills through interactive, enriching and hands-on student conducted research. Over the course of the past year, while conducting Social Studies classes, I have identified that my students have difficulty discerning…Read More