Transformative learning is a laudable goal of educators attempting to make an impact on their students’ lives. We agree with many transformative learning scholars that, in addition to content acquisition, teachers should be influencing student perspectives and worldviews (Boyd,
2009; O’Sullivan, 1999; Mezirow, 1991). However, we posit that the type of life changing events often conceptualized as transformative learning in the literature is difficult to achieve and even more arduous to maintain overtime. Teachers can become frustrated waiting for such events to occur or trying to achieve the profound transformative learning portrayed in teacher hero movies such as Dead Poets Society. This is not to say that transformative learning should be abandoned as a goal of education. Rather, we propose that teachers may benefit from focusing on small- scale transformative learning in addition to large-scale Transformative learning (littlet and big T transformation, if you will). We use the construct of transformative experience (Pugh, 2011) as a framework for conceptualizing a little t transformative learning approach.