I believe in the future of professional learning. I’ve heard that to believe in the future, you must be able to see it. I know this is true. But sometimes seeing the future starts with capturing nostalgic pictures of the past. Take Missouri’s Outreach Teachers’ Academy, for example. The Outreach Teachers’ Academy began more than a decade ago as a way to engage small, rural agricultural districts in our region in monthly consortium-like, collaborative learning experiences. Twelve years ago, we ventured out into this satellite landscape with no specific long-term goals for teacher learning. We believed we were innovating, but we had no overall expectations for implementation and no accountability measurements. The term “accountability” wasn’t even part of our professional vocabulary. We gathered a group