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Building a world where every educator thrives every day 

Bright Morning provides world class professional development to educators across the globe. We exist to bring new practices to schools and organizations that aspire to interrupt inequities, build resilient communities, and transform the world. Through a focus on equity and emotional resilience, we train leaders, coaches, professional development providers, and teachers in communication skills that facilitate sustained learning, growth, and connection.

Bright Morning is for

Coaches

Coaches

New and experienced coaches, managers, teacher leaders, and mentors

Leaders

Leaders

Leaders who want to use coaching strategies to support and develop the adults on their team

Facilitators

Facilitators

Anyone who leads adult learners.

What Our Community is Saying

"Not only have I met my goals to deepen my coaching practice, but I’ve adapted many of Aguilar’s tools as standards/ guides for how we do coaching as an organization. Bright Morning really sets the bar for a comprehensive model for coaching teachers or really any role."

Molly D.
What Our Community is Saying

“Elena and her team’s involvement in the development of our coaching program and training of our instructional coaching staff has been paramount to the success that we have seen and will continue to see. Working with them has been one of the best decisions we’ve made.”

Christina Wildhagen
What Our Community is Saying

“The thoughtfulness, flexibility, and depth of Bright Morning’s training complemented the thoroughness of Elena’s book. I deeply respect the compassion of their work and highly value the tools they have shared with me and my colleagues. We are better equipped to nurture, inspire, and patiently transform the schools we love.”

Aubrey Caldwell
What Our Community is Saying

“Words cannot describe the impact Elena, her team and their program has had on myself, my clients and our classrooms across our region and the Teach for America organization as a whole. I am very excited to keep on practicing and getting better!”

Adam Morales
What Our Community is Saying

“Elena Aguilar knows how to foster the bravery and humility teachers must have to transform their practices. Her methods will help coaches become the trusted, supportive forces we need in our teaching lives.”

Ariel Sacks

Elena's Books

Cover of the book: Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching by Elena Aguliar

Arise

The Art of Transformational Coaching

The Art of Coaching Teams

Building Resilient Communities That Transform Schools

Coaching for Equity

Conversations that Change Practice

Onward

Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

The Onward Workbook

Daily Activities to Cultivate Your Emotional Resilience and Thrive

The PD Book

7 Habits That Transform Professional Development

The Art of Coaching

Effective Strategies for School Transformation

The Art of Coaching Workbook

Tools to Make Every Conversation Count

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