For educators, summer means many things: catching up on all the TV and books one missed during the school year; taking vacations; sleeping in; engaging in enriching and rejuvenating professional development . In addition to preparing for CATDC's Teaching Foundations program, I'm participating in an activity my coach and I call a "summer pilgrimage." Sometimes good professional development--the kind that helps augment one's practice in the classroom, in leadership, in schools as a whole--also needs to be good personal development. As research about mindfulness and wellness floods online media sources, we know that if we don't engage in good habits of self care, we can't give to our schools (students, faculty, staff) in the ways we would most like. After completing my first year in administration, I needed a way to recharge this summer that allowed me the energy to prepare for what comes next. I love the work I do, and I am thrilled to be working with teac