Navigating Difficult Conversations: A Four-Part Leadership Series
Difficult conversations are an inevitable part of leadership, but they don’t have to be feared or avoided. Instead, they can become powerful opportunities for learning, growth, and connection. This four-part series on Navigating Difficult Conversations is designed to equip school leaders with practical tools, strategic exercises, and real-world case studies to transform challenging dialogues into meaningful, constructive exchanges.
Sep. 20, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 26, 2025
Online
Safer Schools
We have partnered with Safer Schools Together (SST) to deliver unprecedented training designed specifically for BC’s educational leaders. This isn’t generic programming — this is your provincial association directly addressing the challenges you have been sharing with us. This session will introduce participants to the skills needed to conduct an initial assessment, best practices for duty to warn/inform and conducting searches in home and school environments, including digital searches on open-source platforms, language analysis, proper documentation, and centralized reporting.
Cognitive Coaching ®
Coaching is a powerful organizational tool that builds mindsets and conversational skills to find strength-based solutions that foster resiliency. Leaders that equip themselves with these conversational skills will have a cascading impact on the culture of their organizations where empowerment is the main ingredient. Capitalize upon and enhance your own cognitive processes.
Nov 7 - 9, 2025 - Jan 30, 31, Feb 1st, 2026 - Feb 28 - March 1, 2026
8:30 am - 3:30 pm PT
In Person, BCPVPA Office
Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar ©
This training explores not only what makes teams effective, but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, and in small and large groups. Adaptive Schools © is the ‘how’ of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.
January 11, February 8, February 22, March 8, 2026
8:30 am - 3:00 pm PT
In Person, BCPVPA Office