Teaching Habits

Teaching Is a Habit

Here I write about small, sustainable habits that shape meaningful classroom communities. I’m not interested in hacks or performative excellence. I focus on the small, repeatable behaviors that make my teaching, and my students’ engagement, more grounded and more human. These posts are rooted in real classroom experience: the friction, the adjustments, and the quiet wins that reveal what is manageable and meaningful. The focus here is simple: habits over hacks. Practice over performance. Teaching that is human, scalable, and worth repeating.

About Owen

I’m a 16 year community college assistant professor who cares deeply about teaching in ways that can actually last. I teach in the open-access community college context, where students bring layered lives, real pressures, and so much potential. That reality has shaped how I think about belonging, engagement, and sustainable teaching practices. Over the years, I’ve seen that meaningful classrooms are shaped by small, steady habits: how we begin a class, how we respond to friction, how we design assignments, how we protect our energy. TeachingHabits.com is where I reflect on those habits,  adjustments, and recalibrations to share the moments worth repeating. As I tell my students, "this space isn’t about perfection. It’s about practice".