At the end of last year when I took on the role as Technology Integration Specialist for the elementary schools in my district, my first major task, before my official start date, was to plan two days of professional development at the end of the year. Day 1 was to get teachers acquainted with the SAMR model and the iPads that all students would be receiving in August, and Day 2 was to introduce teachers to Project Based Learning (PBL) . The iPad training was an ok start. It was differentiated, with different teams leading sessions based on teacher experience. When I reflect back on it now, we should have stuck with two days of iPad training, but one school already had a plan to spend a day with a book study on PBL, as a way to get teachers started with it, and the other schools decided to join in. The deck was a bit stacked against us, we didn't have copies of the book for each person, two schools were entirely unfamiliar with the concept, and I was reall...