I wanted to thank KVEC for funding our Transition Innovation Grant! My co-worker Misty Tackett and I are Employment Specialist at Letcher County Central High School with the Community Work Transition Program. With this grant, we have implemented an initiative called “Cougar Pride, Take a Ride… on the Recycling Train!” The basis of the initi…Read More

The portable puppet stage has arrived!!! My students are going to feel so professional using it with our new puppets!

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I would personally like to thank KVEC for funding our Transition Innovation Grant! We are excited to see everyone at the upcoming Promising Practices, Fire Summit! Me and my co-worker Melissa Blair are Employment Specialist at Letcher County Central High School with the Community Work Transition Program. With this grant, we have implemented an…Read More

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