According to Field Editor, Steve Metz, science teachers know that the traditional time for reflection on the past year is more likely to come in July than in January. Since summer is the time for reflecting on past practices and planning in anticipation of the year ahead and a time to catch up on reading, he highlights several articles from the 2005 issues The Science Teacher (TST). In addition, he discusses the focus of the summer issue of TST and takes a look at the year ahead.