Best-selling author and coaching expert, Elena Aguilar, brings weekly tips, tools, and wisdom to educators with one goal: to help you thrive.
In this replay of a fan-favorite episode, Elena shares a minute-by-minute breakdown of how you should spend the five minutes before you walk into a meeting where you will be coaching. These five steps provide you with the greatest potential for that meeting to be transformative for both yourself and your client.
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How do you kindle a sense of power and agency in your client when they are feeling deflated or overwhelmed?
In this fan-favorite replay episode of our special four-part First 5 Minutes series, Elena will walk you through how to do just that with one question that opens up your next coaching conversation.
In addition to providing you with a new question each week, Elena also walks through how to introduce this new type of question, models what that might look like, pulls back the curtain on why this question works, and shares some wisdom on how to artfully put this into action.
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We spend most of our waking hours at work. With that level of investment, we better make sure that what we’re doing is working, but too often, we just hope for the best. In this episode, Elena demonstrates how to effectively lead a feedback conversation with an administrator. It also includes a debrief discussing the conversation's dynamics and the significance of vulnerability. Elena also shares what she wishes she would have done with more challenging coach/admin relationships in the past.
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00:47 Setting the Stage: Role Play Context
02:29 Jumping into the Role Play
04:20 Positive Feedback Highlights
06:43 Addressing Critical Feedback
12:25 Reflecting on Feedback and Moving Forward
14:44 Debrief and Insights
25:28 Final Thoughts and Takeaways
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How do you coach emotions with a client who doesn’t want to talk about their emotions? That’s what you’ll learn in this episode. In just ten minutes, Elena skillfully supports her “client” to consider the anger he’s experiencing with his administrators in a new light. At the end of the conversation, Elena will share why she made the moves she made and why they work.
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01:01 Introduction to Today's Coaching Demonstration
03:37 Identifying the Client’s Frustrations and Challenges
05:00 Exploring Emotions and Strategies
12:25 Debriefing the Role Play
20:26 Final Thoughts and Takeaways
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What do you do when a client continues to cancel their meetings with you? That’s what you’ll learn in this episode. Elena demonstrates practical strategies through three role-playing scenarios with Cary, a former teacher. This episode is a must-listen for coaches seeking to enhance their confidence and effectiveness in building productive client relationships.
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02:20 Scenario 1: New Teacher Struggles
11:19 Scenario 2: Fourth-Year Teacher Overwhelm
21:51 Scenario 3: Resistance to Coaching
28:16 Final Thoughts and Debrief
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Elena coaches a teacher experiencing frustration after a failed family night in her classroom. She introduces the Gaps Framework to support the teacher in identifying what gaps might have contributed to the disappointing experience, considering both the families and the teacher’s potential needs. The Gaps Framework is designed to expand perspective and identify potential pathways forward, empowering teachers to tackle their areas for growth.
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Running short on time in your coaching conversations? This episode is for you. Elena, playing the role of a school-based coach, demonstrates how to deftly navigate through the three phases of a coaching conversation—beginning, middle, and end—using skills from her “Arc of a Coaching Conversation” Skill Session. Set your timer and listen in to learn how to open and close your meetings in just five minutes.
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00:00 Introduction to the Bright Morning Podcast
00:56 Demonstration Setup: Coaching Conversation Phases
02:30 Role-Playing the Opening of the Coaching Conversation
09:46 Debriefing the Role-Play
15:52 Role-Playing the Closing of the Coaching Conversation
23:20 Final Thoughts and Resources
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If you’re leading classroom observations, this is an episode you won’t want to miss. Elena, playing the role of school-based coach, demonstrates how to navigate a client resistant to a classroom observation early in the year.
This coaching demonstration is an extension of our “Preparing for Your First Observation” Skill Session in the Learning Library. Learn more below.
Notable moments:
00:29 Setting Up the Coaching Demonstration
02:38 Starting the Coaching Conversation
03:13 Addressing Nervousness and Concerns
05:02 Exploring the Benefits of Observation
16:10 Debriefing the Coaching Session
20:38 Resources for Coaches
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Elena demonstrates how to facilitate an impactful getting-to-know-you portion of a coaching conversation. Playing the role of a school-based coach working with a new coaching client, she models how to integrate a client’s core values into the discussion, learn more about their past experience, and set the tone for openness and connection. And she does it all in less than 15 minutes.
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In this episode, Elena (playing the role of school-based coach) and Mike (playing the role of her admin) explore the introduction of a new coaching model within a school district. They discuss the definition and goals of coaching, teacher development strategies, and the implementation of PD cycles. The conversation highlights the importance of aligning coaching with broader school priorities. Key topics include the balance between maintaining confidentiality in coaching relationships, ensuring effective monitoring and evaluation, and fostering a supportive environment for both novice and veteran teachers. The discussion also touches on the need for clear measures of success for the coach and the importance of aligning coaching strategies with desired student outcomes to create positive, intentional, and strategic impacts in the school community. At the end of the conversation, Elena and Mike “pull back the curtain” and share their reflections.
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