The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar
It’s possible for every coaching conversation to build connection and spark change, and Elena Aguilar will show you how. Elena Aguilar is one of education’s leading voices on coaching. Educators around the globe use her research-based coaching method to transform their organizations. Her company, Bright Morning, brings the ideas in her best-selling books to life by providing world-class professional development to mission-driven leaders. In The Bright Morning Podcast, Elena teaches you how to make every conversation count by demonstrating Transformational Coaching conversations. Every episode tackles a pressing coaching challenge. Resistance. Racism. Burnout. Overwhelm. Struggling new teachers. You’ll find it all here. If you’re ready to thrive in your work, listen in. New episodes drop every Monday. To learn more about Elena, go deeper into every episode, find the resources and tools she mentions, or join one of her workshops, check out https://brightmorningteam.com.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 266
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
REPLAY: How to Feel Better: Make and Create
Would you benefit from an infusion of energy, healing and joy?
That is what we’re hoping to provide you with today’s episode - a replay of one of our favorite How to Feel Better resilience strategies…
What Do You Need This Winter Break?: Episode 101
In today’s episode, Elena becomes the coach in your ear, providing some guidance for how you can think about winter break to ensure it serves you and your needs.
The 2021-2022 school year has been a …
Introducing The PD Book!: Episode 100
This is an episode you won’t want to miss. Today Elena is joined by her co-author, Lori Cohen, to give you a sneak peek into their forthcoming book: The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional …
Preparing for Healthy Conflict: Episode 99
Are you interested in strengthening your leadership muscles to support your teammates in engaging in healthy conflict?
Are you conflict averse but want to get better at sharing your needs?
If so, thi…
When it Feels Like it’s Never Enough: Episode 98
How do you support a client when they are working at capacity and still feeling like a failure because the demands are never ending and time is finite?
How do you support a client who has transitione…
First 5 Minutes: “Who is a fictional character…”: Episode 95
How can we bring some creativity and levity to our coaching conversations? What about helping our clients access their needs? Or connecting them to their power?
In this fourth and final episode of …
First 5 Minutes-Tell me about a challenging moment: Episode 94
How do you kindle a sense of power and agency in your coachee when they are feeling deflated or overwhelmed?
In this third episode of our special four-part First 5 Minutes series, Elena will walk yo…
First 5 Minutes: Resilience Boosting Opener: Episode 93
How can we instill our clients with confidence in their potential to learn and grow?
In this second edition of our special four-part First 5 Minutes series, Elena will walk you through how to do just…
First 5 Minutes: Tell Me About a Place…: Episode 92
Today’s episode is the first in our special four-part First 5 Minutes series. These short episodes will provide you with all you need to know to incorporate one resilience-boosting question to use in…
Quarterly Wisdom: Journey into Wanderland: Episode 91
Does your life feel like it’s one checklist after another? Are you feeling unbalanced with your energy being spent only on what must get done and not pursuits that fill you up? If so, this is the epi…
Coaches’ Corner: Is Your Tank Full?: Episode 90
Today's episode is a Coaches' Corner episode where you have the opportunity to be guided by Elena in your own "coaching" session. Today Elena walks you through five essential questions to assess your…
REPLAY: Virtual Reality: Confronting Self-Doubt
This week we are replaying an earlier coaching conversation with Kathrina Mendez, a teacher in California we first met in episode 2.
This was the second coaching conversation between Elena and Kathri…
How to ACE Your Coaching Conversations: Episode 88
This week we are replaying an earlier coaching tools episode where Elena provides an overview of the ACE framework, one of the core strategies for coaching resilience.
The ACE framework is one that h…
Behind the Design: How to Coach Strong Emotions: Episode 87
This is a Behind the Designs episode in which Elena pulls back the curtain to provide expert advice on holding spaces for transformation. Today she’s sharing the strategy you need for coaching client…
Addressing Race-based Opportunity Gaps: Episode 86
On today’s episode Elena coaches an instructional coach who works at a school that is the top performing high school in the state where despite their considerable success, students of color are being…
You Want to Coach for Equity? Start Here: Episode 85
In this Coaches’ Corner episode Elena shows up as your coach and expertly guides you through some exercises and prompts to consider if you are looking to coach for equity.
This episode is for you if:…
Kicking Off Coaching Relationships in 2021-22: Episode 84
“What should my kick-off conversations look like?”
In this short Behind the Design episode Elena walks us through how kick-off conversations with clients provide the opportunity to lay the foundation…
How Do I Set Up Coaching At My Site?: Episode 83
How do you approach a coaching role in a new (largely undefined) coaching program? Today Elena shares her advice for what you need to consider on the front-end to set your coaching program up for suc…
Creating Space: Coaching Conversation: Episode 82
Today on the podcast Elena coaches a former principal turned regional administrator in a power packed 30-minute conversation. The two thought they were going to be focusing on navigating conflict but…