Jeff Wood Receives $500 Grant

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Bestselling author James Patterson and Scholastic Book Clubs announced that McQuerry Elementary teacher Jeff Wood is to receive a grant of $500 and 500 Scholastic Book
Clubs Bonus Points for the purpose of building classroom and at-home libraries for his students. Mr. Wood is among 5,000 teachers throughout the United States who received a grant, part of a $2.5 million personal donation made by James Patterson. To learn more about the program and see the full list of grant recipients, visit:
http://www.scholastic.com/pattersonpartnership/.

To be considered for the grant, Jeff Wood was asked to share in 50 characters or less how he plans to use the funds and Bonus Points to help build his classroom library. As a grant recipient, Mr. Wood will have access to additional support from Patterson and Scholastic Book Clubs in the form of a special online boutique filled with promotional discounts on books for every type of reader, as well as a monthly newsletter filled with ideas for building classroom and at-home libraries, all created with the goal of helping teachers stretch the dollars even further to benefit as many kids as possible This year marks the sixth annual installment of the Patterson Partnership, created to build classroom and home libraries and assist teachers in acquiring books and other materials desperately needed by them and their students. The 2020 partnership drew a total of more than 100,000 applicants from teachers nationwide, showing the dire need for books and classroom resources. To date, Patterson has donated $11 million to school and classroom libraries through his Scholastic Book Clubs campaign. Patterson hopes that teachers and students will share their experiences in their communities using #pattersonpledge. All teachers in Pre-K through grade 12 in US schools were eligible to apply for the grant. All funds are being personally donated by James Patterson, and all Bonus Points are being donated by Scholastic Book Clubs.