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Nottingham elementary school twitter11/24/2023 It is a huge honour to have been selected as a scholar and to join its illustrious club. On my return to Nottingham, I’ll be trying to implement what I’ve learnt and seen in the schools as a toolkit for schools and teachers, developing new events and rewards that encourage literacy engagement in children and, working with the city and county cultural education partnerships, ensure that this practice is shared with other agencies too. Finally, I’ll catch the AmTrack from El Paso to Austin for my final Drama Department and round off my trip. Also in New Mexico, I will visit the DH Lawrence ranch, where he lived toward the end of his life, as an ambassador from Nottingham City of Literature. Also in these towns (or neighbouring Santa Fe in New Mexico) will again meet the Playwriting and Dramaturgy faculty from the Drama Department of the university and speak to students. Over the next 4 weeks, I will spend a week in each of San Diego, Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso, working in schools. I’ll then fly to San Diego, which is where my engagement with schools begins. I’ll then fly to Chicago and meet with academics and associates at Roosevelt University – and maybe pop to a blues club in the evening to make my dad jealous! I’ll then get a bus to Iowa City and meet with their City of Literature team and Playwriting and Dramaturgy faculty from the Drama Department of the university – hopefully giving a workshop to students. In DC I’ll visit the 2 FDR memorials (9th Street Archives memorial and the FDR and Eleanor presidential memorial) and also hopefully link up with national policy makers linked to elementary education policy and/or representing areas where I will be travelling. To put some flesh onto the bare-bones of the map, I’ll be having my initial stop in New York City where I’ll visit the Roosevelt Library, in Hyde Park, Upstate New York, before heading by train to Baltimore – Washington, DC area. I am very proud that both Nottingham City of Literature and culture magazine LeftLion will also be helping me in this! I also have a secondary focus on promoting Nottingham as a newly crowned UNESCO City of Literature and an ambitious county of literacy. I’ll be travelling in the United States in October and November looking at how primary-aged children in the South-West US learn English in school and, hopefully, develop a love of reading, especially focussing on supporting children from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or from families with English as a second language. I work as a freelance education project manager for Nottingham City Council and am an associate artist at Nottingham Playhouse. My name is Gareth Morgan and I’m an education specialist and writer, born and raised in Nottingham.
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