A Sonnet to Reflect on Staff Orientation

Contributing Writer: Javan Howard, Director of Education

Hello to our new staff and to our returnees welcome back 

to a Usdan major for all and minors of choice for orientation

We had our principals in practice to exercise our imagination 

like the summer theme for 4A and in 4B we got harmony intact

The discovery of new trails while fireside chatting all over the map 

individuals by departments and in discipline specific conversations

The free form of our ensemble please share your thoughtful annotations 

and survey the day of a camper as we followed in their original tracks

The nature of our minds are just like the collective campus good

In the prep for the season where would we be without maintenance 

A festival of information to retain here’s a one-pager from the handbook

and a packet of resources for more diverse strategies in the woods 

For all artist collaborators in our differentiated paths of playfulness

We are a clubhouse of superheroes manifesting art in every hidden nook