Every year, there are education conferences that our Academy attends; it is expensive so we have to rotate the administrators who attend. According to Senge (2006), such events are important for networking, personal mastery, and helping to create a learning organization. I feel like such opportunities should be available to more schools, even if they are just on a smaller scale. Not all schools attend due to budget constraints. Unfortunately, when schools begin to tighten their finances, professional development programs are often the first to go