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.
The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar
Transformational Lesson Plan Feedback: Coaching Demonstration: Episode 234
What does it look like to incorporate Transformational Coaching into everyday instructional coaching practices? Get ready to see it in action. In this episode, Elena demonstrates how to transform lesson plan feedback from transactional to transformational.
Notable moments:
01:27 Role Play Demonstration Setup
03:35 Feedback on Lesson Plans
07:15 Reflecting on Independent Work
10:02 Planning and Tracking Student Progress
16:37 Engaging Students in Their Learning
20:50 Final Thoughts and Next Steps
Keep learning:
- Join our Learning Library and Transformational Coaching PLC and learn everything you need to know about incorporating Transformational Coaching strategies into common instructional coaching supports like providing feedback on lesson plans or co-planning. You’ll also find a video recording of this coaching demonstration and a debrief where Elena shares the thinking behind her coaching moves.
- The First 10 Minutes (tool)
- Read Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching to build your coaching toolkit
- Attend The Art of Transformational Coaching Workshop to grow your coaching skills
- Receive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox
- Become a Bright Morning Member
- Follow Elena on Instagram and LinkedIn
- Follow Bright Morning on LinkedIn and Instagram
Support the show:
- Become a Friend of the Podcast
- Rate and review us
Reflection questions:
- How was this conversation similar to or different from how you approach providing lesson plan feedback?
- What coaching moves did you hear Elena make that would build trust and agency with her coaching client?
- What is one thing you want to take from this conversation and try on in your coaching practice?
Podcast Transcript and Use:
Bright Morning Consulting owns the copyright to all content and transcripts of The Bright Morning Podcast, with all rights reserved. You may not distribute or commercially exploit the content without our express written permission.
We welcome you to download and share the podcast with others for personal use; please acknowledge The Bright Morning Podcast as the source of the material.