With the pressures put on teachers today to meet standards, cover a dense curriculum, and be involved in numerous meetings, taking the time to reflect on instruction may be pushed aside. The authors examined the importance of reflection and its impact on teaching and learning. Reflection allows teachers to evaluate subjective and objective criteria that help them respond and make modifications to lessons. Many teachers engage in reflection intuitively. The authors describe how one teacher fully engages in the reflective process through the use of the reflective SOAP (subjective, objective, assessment, plan) strategy. In an era of accountability, SOAP notes help document instruction and student learning, thus benefiting educators and students. The SOAP notes model can be applied to any content area across all grade bands. One must consider the question of how teachers can fully engage in reflection to improve instruction and meet the learning needs of their students.