Size matters. When it comes to PD, smaller is better.
Tiny PD gives school leaders 15-minute PD sessions they can drop into Tuesday's faculty meeting and actually look smart running. Built on real learning science. Zero icebreakers. No "experts" flying in from Scottsdale.
I don't trust websites. Let me talk to someone →Professional development is broken and everyone knows it.
Teachers dread it. Admins dread planning it. The consultant says "rigor" 47 times and leaves behind a workbook that becomes a coaster.
You've spent five figures on a Saturday that made your faculty like you less.
There's a better way, and it's smaller.
What Tiny PD actually is
15-minute PD sessions. Long enough to teach something real. Short enough to fit in the meeting you're already having.
Built on learning science that works. Retrieval practice. Cognitive load. Spaced repetition. The stuff that shows up in the research, not the stuff that shows up on a keynote slide.
Designed so anyone can run them. Your assistant principal. Your dean of faculty. You, on a Tuesday, in sneakers. No prep. No slides to build at 10pm Sunday.
Made by a teacher. Not a consultant. Not a platform. A person (hi, I'm Piers) who's been in the classroom for 12+ years and has strong opinions about what actually moves the needle.
See our sample Tiny PD sessions below:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Prompt Engineering
AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are powerful, but they are only as good as the instructions you give them. In this session, we move beyond generic requests and teach your faculty the prompt engineering strategies that turn AI into a genuine workflow tool, not a shortcut.
ENGAGEMENT & MOTIVATION
Attention & Engagement
Your teachers are not losing the attention battle because they are boring. They are competing with billion-dollar algorithms designed to hijack focus. This session teaches the science of engagement and gives your faculty a practical framework for designing lessons that earn and hold attention.
FEEDBACK & ASSESSMENT
Formative Assessment
In most classrooms, data arrives too late. The quiz is graded, the unit is over, and the insights come after the learning window has closed. This session introduces the Agile Classroom model: collecting data in real time and acting on it before the moment passes.
COGNITIVE LOAD
Questioning For Rigor
When teachers ask a question and accept the first correct answer, learning stops for everyone else in the room. This session moves past the recall trap and equips your faculty with questioning strategies that spark critical thinking and genuine inquiry across every subject.
ADHD & EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
Stress & Executive Functioning
When cortisol rises, the prefrontal cortex shuts down, and students lose access to the very skills they have been taught. This session reframes executive function challenges as stress responses, not motivation problems, and gives teachers environmental strategies that actually work.
COGNITIVE LOAD
Visual Pedagogy
Slides are either helping your students learn or quietly blocking them. Built on Dual Coding Theory and the science of visual processing, this session teaches your faculty to design instructional visuals that reduce cognitive noise and make new information stick.
ADHD & EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
Working Memory & Executive Functioning
Every student walks into class with a limited amount of cognitive fuel. Students with executive function needs burn through it faster. This session teaches your faculty to reduce the friction required to start, organize, and complete tasks so that working memory is spent on learning, not logistics.
DIFFERENTIATION & INCLUSION
Cognitive Inclusion
Move beyond basic accommodations to master the Universal Design for Learning principles that allow neurodivergent students to thrive while making your entire classroom more efficient for everyone.
PARENT PARTNERSHIP
Mastering Parent Partnerships
Stop managing parents and start mobilizing them. Learn the psychological strategies that transform difficult conversations into collaborative wins, ensuring your students have a unified support system from the classroom to the home.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
The Regulated Classroom
Social-emotional learning is not an extra to be scheduled. It is the foundation for every academic outcome. Master the science of self-regulation and co-regulation to create a classroom climate where emotional safety drives intellectual risk-taking.
Your faculty meetings are already on the calendar. Your teachers are already in the room. The only thing missing is content worth their time.
Meeting-Ready PD is Pedagotree's library of turnkey professional development sessions built for the 10 to 20 minutes you already have. Each session comes with everything your leadership team needs to deliver high-impact professional learning with zero prep time: a slideshow, a facilitation guide, and a teacher handout.
No outside consultants. No all-day workshops. No substitute budgets. Just expert-built content your team delivers in-house, on your schedule, during the time you already protect.
Built for Busy Schools
Your Administrator Leads It
Teachers trust the people they already work with. When your dean or department head delivers the session, buy-in is immediate. No credibility gap. No "outside expert" skepticism. Just your leader, your faculty, and content that actually lands.
15 - 20 Minutes. Zero Prep.
Every session comes fully built. Slideshow, facilitation guide, teacher handout, discussion questions, and extension suggestions. Your administrator logs in, downloads the materials, and delivers. That's it.
Grounded in Cognitive Science
Every session in the library is built around how brains actually learn. Not best practices passed down from tradition. Not whatever was trending at the last conference. Research-backed content on the topics that actually change what happens in classrooms.
Frequently asked, honestly answered
- "Is this really just 15 minutes?" Yes. Turns out most PD is 20% substance and 80% padding. We cut the padding.
- "Can my assistant principal really run this without a PhD in education?" Yes. Every session comes with a facilitator guide that a reasonably literate adult could follow. If your AP can run a fire drill, they can run TinyPD.
- "What if my teachers hate it?" They won't. But if they do, you've lost 15 minutes instead of a Saturday. Risk-adjusted, you're winning.
- "Why is it called TinyPD?" Because "MediumPD" tested poorly in focus groups. (Also because small is the whole point.)
