Setting goals, working to achieve those goals, monitoring them and reassessing our goals are an important aspect of life-especially in the lives of an educator. After focusing on meeting the needs of the 221st learner at our Retreat, teachers were to then go back and recreate their mission statements and teaching philosophies. In this Professional Development session, we discussed 21st century teaching best practices along with implementing those practices into our teaching philosophies to help each other and ourselves reach our ultimate end goals of student achievement which reflects our personal mission statements.