LEADERSHIP IN LEARNING
The BTPS Board of Education and Division Administration are advocates of lifelong learning and of providing professional learning opportunities for all of our staff. We have a goal to attract, retain, and grow amazing staff and leaders.
This professional learning menu is part of our commitment to support you. We're really excited about offering so many online leadership opportunities, and will be adding more selections to the PL menu each year. A key feature of the menu is how easy it is for you to register. For this year, every item on this site is funded and supported by BTPS, and all administration related to payment is handled by the division office.
It really is this easy to find your lead domino and further your learning journey! There are many options to support growth in leadership, collaborate with others, and learn simple organizational tips.
INVEST in Leaders
BTPS ensures that every leader has a high level of support and access to quality training, learning and mentoring opportunities.


Learn TOGETHER
BTPS has a community in which every current and aspiring leader has the opportunity to learn and grow.
PREPARE for Opportunities
We support our staff to grow and prepare for new opportunities that might arise and to excel in their new positions.


Manage Things,
LEAD PEOPLE
Leadership is everywhere! BTPS supports a community in which every current and aspiring leader has the opportunity to learn and grow.
LEARN on YOUR SCHEDULE
We understand busy and needing balance in our lives. BTPS strives to provide professional learning that is flexible and adaptable ... like the best leaders!


Find Your PATHWAY
Leaders are everywhere in BTPS! I want to encourage us all to learn and support anyone interested in growing as a leader. Let's connect you with professional development opportunities that will ensure you and BTPS will grow together.
- Rhae-Ann Holoien, Superintendent
TO ACCESS COURSES
Step 1: Select your learning opportunity. No approval is necessary.
Step 2: Click Register or Join Waiting List.
1:1 COACHING AND COURSE EXTENSIONS
Step 1: Request approval from direct supervisor/ Rhae-Ann.
Step 2: Register or Rhae-Ann will introduce you to a Warm Demander coach.

Warm U
Warm U is one-click premium community access to all Warm Demanders' courses.
Register separately or choose Warm U which puts all courses and updates from Warm Demanders into your library.
To access Coconut Courses, Organized Binder, and The Schoolhouse 302 use the tiles below.
All BTPS can use this all-inclusive access!

New! Includes commentary, introductions, and finishing thoughts from Rhae-Ann!
The Remarkable Administrative Professional
School offices are filled with highly-skilled people who often learn at the school of hard knocks.
Stop feeling like you might be missing something and build remarkable systems!
For administrators and secretaries!

Most popular!
Increase Productivity and Eliminate Overwhelm
Do you often think about something you need to do while trying to be present with someone close to you?
It's entirely possible to be effectively doing and happily being.
For everyone who feels swamped!

New!
Tech Timesavers
Did you know that saving 1 minute a day adds up to over 6 hours in a year?
Most people we work with regain 10-20 minutes a day and we've curated all of our most popular video tips for you.
Ideal for everyone!

New!
Coaching as a Warm Demander
Are you new to leading a team, working as a lead teacher, or coaching in your school or district?
Maybe you'd like to add some new tools to your coaching and mentoring toolkit?
Ideal for all current and aspiring coaches, coordinators, and administrators!

Just Released!
Telling the Stories of Your School
The chances are stellar that something good happens somewhere on campus every day a child shows up.
Unfortunately, the chances are also good that these moments don't get shared.
For all educators!

Reshaping Your Staff Meeting
This fun series from Rushton Hurley is designed to help school leaders inspire and be inspired in their staff meetings!
Surface, nurture, and inspire stories of success and build a culture of exploration.
For school administrators!

Little Things Make You Better
This one's for teachers and just as it sounds! Lessons on rapport, assignments, instruction, professionalism, and logistics.
On top of the fantastic content, learning with Rushton is inspiring and a lot of fun!
Ideal for all educators!

Mindfulness is for Everyone!
We believe everyone is a leader and leaders need to exercise self-care before they can help others.
Easily said and sadly cliché. So what can we actually do during the day to calm our busy heads and make this happen?!
5-15 minute practices for everyone!

Leading Impactful Meetings
What kinds of meetings do you intentionally plan to build exceptional clarity and model a growth mindset?
Capture the best of your team and lead more dynamic and impactful meetings!
Excellent for all who lead meetings!

Remarkable Teacher Leaders!
How can we lead without authority? Leadership isn't about job titles.
Learn rarely taught leadership tools and strategies that will help you become a more impactful warm demander leader.
Ideal for teachers and team leaders!

iPhone Bits & Bytes
Becoming an expert iPhone user doesn’t have to be a difficult, time-sucking process.
In fact, this fun course is the exact opposite of that in 8 lessons that are filled with fun and drip to your library weekly.
Ideal for everyone with an iPhone!

Be a Facetime Pro
Further grow your tech confidence and skills in a relaxed, learn-at-your-own-pace course filled with tips that translate to any video conversation and software.
Register today for this fun and informative course and be ready for your next long distance catch-up and more.
Ideal for everyone with an iPhone or iPad!

When Parents Bully the School
Adult bullies require skillful communications and clear expectations.
Bullying expert and NYT best-selling author Jodee Blanco will help you work collaboratively with a challenging parent.
For all educators!

Candid and Compassionate Feedback
Are you like most leaders and trapped in the circle of nice with your best feedback efforts feeling ineffective?
Eliminate 9 traps that limit compassionate candor in your leadership and culture!
Ideal admin and coaches!
Register with Code WARM22

Make Your School Remarkable!
Every effective principal knows culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Learn impactful strategies in 6 weekly lessons designed to help you surface and nurture the genius of your people!
Ideal for school and district administrators!

Leading as a Warm Demander
Put people first with intentionality and incredible systems.
8 lessons to help you be a compassionate, courageous, and constructive leader!
Our most popular introductory course. Ideal for all current and aspiring leaders!

Teaching Executive Functions
Executive functions are essential for students to organize their days and learning. with goal-setting, planning, reflection, and organization.
Register with the code WarmU22
For all educators!

From our Nohea Office Series
The Bring Forward System
Feel like you might be missing something? Meetings on auto-pilot, with little time to capture the best ideas?
A BF system is the backbone of legal and finance offices to manage information.
Ideal for school and district administrators

From our Nohea Office Series
The School Secretary Blueprint
Are you ready to enhance your organizational system and make leading more doable for administrators?
Includes discussion questions for secretaries and administrators.
Ideal for secretaries and admin assistants

1:1 Coaching Sessions
Would you like to drill down more deeply into one of our courses or get some help with tech tools or productivity?
We coach educational leaders all over North America. Our confidential sessions are designed to accelerate your learning and fit into your schedule.
Talk with Rhae-Ann to begin the process!

TRC Calls to Action and the Legacy of Residential Schools
Niigaan Sinclair, one of Canada's leading voices on truth and reconciliation and the TRC Commission, provides information and resources to connect this important work to education.
Join Niigaan and educators from across Canada to find out where we are and where we need to go.
Live or Recorded Webinar Options (presented by Nelson PL)

FREE videos, articles, and templates. Click, share, and come back as often as you like!
BTPS Links for Current and Aspiring Leaders
🔥 BTPS Tom Hierck Video File on Google Drive
🔥 ATA Professional Development Sign-up
🔥 LQS Notebook & TQS Notebooks - Make a copy for your own portfolio and reflections
🔥 BTPS Women in Leadership Video #1 with Board Chair: Lanie Parr
🔥 The BTPS Podcast: Learning on the Trail
🔥 Coming Soon ... The Women in Leadership Book Study
Dynamic Meetings
🔥 Sheets One-Stop Shopping Agenda with Missionkeepers and Bring Forward sections (download)
🔥 Sheets One-Stop Shopping Agenda with Missionkeepers and Bring Forward sections AND HOW TO USE (download)
🔥 Silence Does the Heavy Lifting via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Meetingitis via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Meeting Déjà Vu: We Talked About This Last Year, Right? via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Be Right at the End of the Meeting by David Cote (video)
Organization
🔥 Creating a Things-Not-To-Do List (video)
🔥 Creating a Things-Not-To-Do List (notes)
🔥 Creating Clarity with a Things-To-Do List (video)
🔥 Creating Clarity with a traffic light document (template)
🔥 What Is an algorithm? via theconversation.com (article)
Productivity
🔥 Time Blocking Big Rock via FranklinCovey (video)
🔥 Adding is Favored Over Subtracting in Problem Solving via Nature.com (article)
🔥 So Much STUFF! via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Meeting with Myself via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 The 2-minute Rule (video)
Culture
🔥 The Ideal Team Player via Pat Lencioni (video)
🔥 Making Practices Practical: Building and Sustaining a Positive Culture
🔥 Making Practices Practical: Being Mission-Driven
🔥 Carefronting and Having Courageous Conversations via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Be a Manager AND a Leader via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Basketball Coach Steve Kerr is a Warm Demander
🔥 Building a Culture and Making Your School Irresistible (video )
🔥 We Need People to Keep Us Accountable via John Maxwell (video)
🔥 If People Have to Follow You, How Do You Know if You're a Good Leader? via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Crabs in a Bucket via Warm Demanders (article)
Inspiration
🔥 Warm Demanders Quotes (pics)
🔥 The Best Research is Me-search via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Smooth Stones Take Time via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 False Summits via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Leadership and Rubik's Cubes via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 A Lesson From Goldilocks via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Finding Home Base via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Problem or Fact of Life? via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Staying True to Your Dreams via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Say the Why, Lead the Way via Warm Demanders (article)
Tech Tips
🔥 (NEW) EdTech Menu from Stacy
🔥 10 Little Known Tech Timesavers for Leaders (separated below)
Notes for BTPS Leaders
- Always register with your BTPS email address.
- Courses are in your Library (click your image at the top-right).
- There are more courses and lessons on the way. BTPS has complete access to Warm U (Community) and those who subscribe get updates throughout the year.
- Please upload a photo you like to all of your accounts so people know you're a real person and not a shadow-head. 😉
- You can always log in at the bottom right of this menu if you're on a different computer or tablet.
- Download our Kajabi app and watch your progress on the go! (IOS, Android). Instructions are also sent when you register.
- Please comment as much as possible and reply to other people's messages in the video lessons.