The skies were threatening on the morning we visited Cranberry Station Elementary School in Westminster, MD. It had been raining nearly nonstop for two weeks and today did not look like an exception. Hopeful for a change in forecast, the kids all arrived at school dressed in their gym clothes and ready to participate in the school-wide Fun Run, a fundraiser for the PE program. The skies did not cooperate, though, and the Fun Run was postponed for the second time. Happily, there was another special activity in store for some of the children: a visit with Dr. Fennell. Though not a teacher at Cranberry Station, Dr. Francis "Skip" Fennell, incoming National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) president, is no stranger around these parts--at least not to his several students from McDaniel College in Westminster who are now themselves teachers at this K-5 school 40 miles outside Baltimore. Cranberry Station is a professional development school for McDaniel's undergraduate teacher education program, within which Fennell teaches mathematics and mathematics education courses. And he is certainly not a stranger to elementary schools, having spent the first 10 years of his career in the public school system, first as a teacher and later as a principal and supervisor. This article briefly describes the author's unique experience in getting to observe Fennell make the rounds to three classes at the Cranberry Station Elementary School in Fennell's hometown of Westminster, Maryland.