How do we sustain our joy in teaching? Alternatively, how might the joy we reclaim in the classroom sustain us outside of it? We first explored this topic in a 2009 Spring Teaching Forum. 17 years later, against the backdrop of an increasingly fraught national and international landscape, can we imagine our classrooms as places of refuge and hope? This event will explore how teaching might help us instill resilience in our students while finding it for ourselves – finding a way forward by tapping into the motivations and passions that brought us into the academy in the first place. Speakers Joy Gaston Gayles is the head of NCSU’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development. She has written on finding ways forward through uncertain times in higher education, advocacy among undergraduate students, retention in STEM majors, and equity in both faculty development and student support. In her capacity as president of the Associate for the Study of Higher Education, she led a symposium on “Finding Our Way: Centering Joy, Care, and Community.” Yale Faculty and Staff Panel TBA
