2016 Jan Stauber-Sherlock Holmes Literacy Grant Awards

This year we provided grants of up to $500 to ten (10) teachers and librarians to assist them in developing a teaching project to introduce more young people to Sherlock Holmes. Here are the awardees for 2016:
1. Christa Bell
Lafayette County C-1 School District, Higginsville, MO
​bellc@huskers.k12.mo.us
     ​“Sherlock Holmes and Critical Thinking and Forensic Science” (grades 6-8)                        
2. Matthew Collier
Marmaduke School District, Marmaduke, AR
mcollier@msd.gaggle.net
      ​“An Evening with Sherlock Holmes” (grades 8-9)
3. Virginia W. Everett & Helen Cauley
Cobb County Public Library, Kennesaw, GA
      ​“Monthly Sherlock Holmes Story Discussion” (teenagers-adults)
4. David Fake
Tulpehocken High School, Bernville, PA
DFake@tulpehocken.org
​      “A Study in Scarlet” (grades 9-12)
5. L. V. Finnegan
Pillow Elementary, Austin, TX
victoria.finnegan@austinisd.org
      ​“Reading Detectives” (grades 3-5)
6. Jnanama Ishaya
Bethel School, Sugar Grove, NC
ishayaj@watauga.k12.nc.us
​      “An Introduction to Sherlock Holmes” (grades 3-8)
7. Sarah Lawler
Fayetteville Free Library, Fayetteville, NY
slawler@fflib.org
      ​“Sherlock Holmes Forensic Camp” for grades 6-12 and “Sherlock Holmes Science and Book Club” (grades 3-5)
8. Sandra Little
Region 9 Education Service Center, Wichita Falls, TX
imkatherinealtimeter@gmail.com
       ​“Expanding Literacy through ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’” for individuals seeking their Graduation Equivalency Diploma (GED)
9. KT Lowe
Indiana University East, Richmond, IN
lowekat@iu.edu
       ​“The Hound of the Baskervilles” (grades 4-6)
10. Susan Wilson
Community Library of Allegheny Valley, Natrona Heights, PA
myserk2@einetwork.net
      ​“Sleuthing with Sherlock Holmes” (ages 12-18)    
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