If you’re not an educator, your experience with “Teacher’s Institute Days” as days where you didn’t have to go to school… If you’re ‘in the know’ you understand that the standard school roles end up a bit reversed.

On Institute Days, we’re the ones who end up learning… or at least that is the intent. We are provided a variety of points of view and pieces of information, and if we’re lucky we can find a useful nugget or two.

The trouble many of us find is that we’re not exactly completely receptive, but that’s not necessarily indicative of the collective.

Personally, I don’t hate them, especially if they’re relevant… but holy cow sometimes I just simply cannot focus.

I mean, case and point, I’m writing this in the middle of one RIGHT NOW!

So, I’ve distilled some of these thoughts and feelings into this brief little passage…

* I’m not 100% sure but does my explaining the poem reduce its value? I dunno if it’s like a Magician explaining a trick to an audience. I digress… enjoy.

By: Drew Swenson

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOne of those days

filled with malaise

Information on slides

but my eyes become glazed

A wealth of mostly useful information

it goes on for so long, you’d need a vacation

Hours and hours of info-dumps

all of it is necessary, y’know, taking your lumps

Is it worth it?

Perhaps, for obtaining some credit

When it comes to renewal

you will not regret it.