I truly believe that the educational and instructional advances be fostered through KVEC/FIRE/ARI are making a difference in the lives of our students and is transforming teachers practices and vision in and outside of the classrooms. This is truly an integral part of a “Regions Way Forward”. As a region we need to embrace the concept of an…Read More

Adding Podcast to our grant program (Ms. Rebecca Potter and I) has been a challenge with setting up the studio and training students in how to use the technology, conduct an interview, and to edit their production. The ARI grant have been great additions to our journalism and oral history projects here at Letcher County Central. It is our…Read More

Attempting to make documentaries can truly be a trying task. With this years interruptions with our schedules due to weather, sickness, and legislation it has been more trying than in the past, but we feel confident that by spring that we will have a quality production in place as we have done in the past. I will update you on our progress with…Read More

Just an update on Rebecca Potter and my documentary project: Heroes on Every Hand: They Just Never Told Us, is in the final editing stages. We are behind the projected schedule that we had for ourselves, but that is not uncommon in a production such as this. We have so much more footage this year than in last years documentary: Piling Up…Read More

Ms. Rebecca Potter and I have been conducting interviews and working with the Letcher County Central Journalism Class preparing our documentary entitled “Heroes on Every Hand: They Just Never Told Us”. We are preparing to start the editing process in the next few days. We are hoping to add a couple more interviews to this piece and more…Read More