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You bring the credential. I bring the build.

61 ready-to-teach modules, each with learning outcomes and a check-off, and the real tiny home builds your students will actually talk about.

Written and taught by someone who's done the jobs. Almost 30 years in the trades. Ontario Certificate of Qualification (Floor Covering Installer), HRAI Indoor Air Quality, 15 to 20 insurance rebuilds, general contracting since 2012. Two Ontario-funded cohorts delivered for ACCES Employment.

I've done every job I teach. And since 2025, Collège La Cité students have built three tiny homes with my company, Small Living Co.

Ask for a sample module See the 61 modules

Curriculum licence$4,000 a yearper campus + HST · extra campuses half price · high schools $2,000

What you getYour pick of 10 modules handed over ready to teach on day one. Add any of the other 51 whenever you want, no extra cost

Each moduleDeck, speaker notes, handout, learning outcomes and a check-off sheet

Your instructorsTrain-the-trainer session included. A full in-person day at your campus is $9,000, with the first year's licence included

In FrenchA bilingual construction instructor who worked with me for years co-teaches in French. French handouts are in progress

CredentialYours. My certificates aren't accredited, and I won't pretend they are. You issue the micro-credential

Collège La Cité students framing the roof of a tiny home — La Cité students on the roof of a tiny home build.

Small Living Co. × Collège La Cité

Three homes. Two summers.

Since 2025, Collège La Cité students have built three towable tiny homes with Small Living Co., my company, over two summer sessions. My crew works alongside them on things like spray foam and siding. Not a mock-up. A product people buy. Small Living Co. sold the first mobile tiny home through Home Depot Canada.

RefMedia: La Cité students finish their first tiny homes →The Tiny Home 2-Day Intensive →

Three ways in

Pick what fits your program.

Your instructors teach it

License the curriculum

Start with any 10 modules: foundations, safety, blueprints, building science, business and 30 hands-on trades. Your faculty teaches them; I train your faculty.

From $4,000 a year → A real build

Tiny home intensive or term build

Two days on a tiny home in progress, or a full build across a term or a summer.

2 days from $12,000 · term builds quoted → Short and stackable

Micro-credentials

Stack 2 to 6 modules into a 1- to 5-day credential. Every module has outcomes and an assessment you can map to your own.

Pick the modules → Any campus

Live from my studio

Any module taught live on your screen, tools up close on the bench camera. No travel on the invoice.

From $1,500 a session →

Adding trades seats or a pre-apprenticeship intake? The Full Build drops in as your hands-on block: every trade that touches a house, 2 to 5 days at your campus, from $12,000. Or build a custom program.

What your faculty will ask

Straight answers up front.

Learning outcomes. Every module page lists them, with how they're checked: a quiz plus an applied exercise for classroom modules, a station-by-station check-off for hands-on. Example: C18 Reading Full Plan Sets →

Who owns what. I keep ownership of the curriculum; you get the right to teach it on your campuses for the licence term. The licence agreement is with my lawyer now. I'll send you the draft with the sample module.

Code and province. Built around the Ontario Building Code and OHSA. Outside Ontario I teach your province's version.

The paperwork. AIM Project Management o/a Aaron Markel Builds, HST registered, $3M liability insurance (I'll name the college as additional insured), WSIB, and a current vulnerable sector check.

Next step

Want to see a sample module?

Tell me your program and campus. I'll send a sample module (deck pages, handout, learning outcomes and the check-off sheet) and the draft licence terms.

Ask for a sample module Or just email me

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