{"data":{"ID":1227,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698880376,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Stay Hungry Stay Foolish: A Conversation on Teaching for a Lifetime","Handle":"stay_hungry_stay_foolish--a_conversation_on_teaching_for_a_lifetime","ShortDescription":"We have heard that teachers are fleeing the profession: retiring early, leaving for consulting jobs, or burning out.  But that's not true of all teachers.  So just how does one stay engaged and engaging while aging?  How might we avoid both burning out and fading away.","Description":"As we age, teachers invariably face a dilemma:  Our youth, which used to tie us so closely to our students and which was vital to our relationships with them, invariably fades. Curricula become stagnant.  Ideas that once excited us rebound as hollow echos, and the vitality we know is crucial to the life of the class wanes earlier in the day.  \r\n\r\nThis is not a fiction. It is an inevitability (though certainly heightened by a. bit of hyperbolic description here).    It has happened to me as a 30 year veteran.  Join this conversation to explore our pasts, presents, and futures as  career educators and how we might continue to bring energy and heart to this work, 15, 20, 30 years in.","Link":["https:\/\/pvhsnovalab.com","https:\/\/onlyconnects.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Two main conversational practices are in play here:  \r\n1) Depending upon attendance, a modified version of the \"World Cafe Protocol\" \r\n2) A modified version of the \"Consultancy Protocol\" for dealing with dilemmas.\r\n(Both protocols, and others, found here:  https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OMJSuPCX2pbne4vzZQ5K13bfGMtGQzmu\/view?usp=sharing)","Presenter":["Garreth Heidt"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Perkiomen Valley High School"],"PresenterEmail":["gheidt@pvsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":158,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This session is open to everyone, students included.  Your presenter doesn't have the answers and has no particular expertise in this topic, other than 30 years of experience and a sense that he knew these days were coming, and still isn't prepared.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11}}