In this practical, engaging course, you’ll explore Small But Mighty by Miriam Plotinsky and discover how simple, intentional habits can transform your teaching—without adding overwhelm. Designed for busy educators, the course focuses on small shifts that create big impact.

You’ll dive into areas like instructional planning, classroom management, engagement, feedback, well-being, and belonging—learning how everyday decisions shape your effectiveness and student success. Through reflection and application, you’ll connect each concept directly to your classroom.

Walk away with manageable, sustainable strategies that build confidence, strengthen instruction, and create a more positive learning environment.

Because better teaching comes from doing the right small things consistently.

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Critically analyze the key ideas, teaching habits, and reflective practices presented in Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching and evaluate their influence on teacher effectiveness, confidence, and student learning.

• Examine the relationship between teacher beliefs, collaboration, instructional planning, classroom management, engagement, assessment, feedback, reflection, and belonging in order to identify practices that contribute to manageable and effective teaching.

• Apply practical, habit-based strategies from the text to strengthen instructional decision-making, improve classroom systems, and foster a more positive, responsive, and productive learning environment.

• Design and implement classroom practices that support student engagement, meaningful assessment, constructive feedback, and ongoing reflection in ways that enhance both teaching quality and student growth.

• Reflect on, assess, and refine personal teaching practices in order to develop sustainable habits that promote professional growth, teacher and student well-being, and a stronger sense of community and belonging in the classroom.