One of the many reasons I chose to enter the world of project-based teaching and turn Queensbury High School's Room 106 into a 21st-Century learning environment is because the canvas is vast and the opportunities for students are endless. That said, rebuilding from ground zero is one reason this teacher of nine years, feels like a rookie again.

Three reads I acquired in preparation for the classroom transformation include, Project Based Learning: A Guide to

Standards-Focused Project Based Learning, Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age, and Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age.

There is plenty of utility in all three of these books, however, A Guide to Standards-Focused PBL and Reinventing PBL, are must-haves for your teacher bookshelf, if you are taking the "giant leap" into the 21st C.