Hello, friends. Welcome to the Bright Morning podcast. I'm your host, Elena Aguilar. And in each podcast episode, you'll hear me demonstrate how you can lead conversations that builds connection and spark change. We are racing towards summer, which means the end of the school year is upon us.

So today I'm going to help you prepare for one of the most critical conversations you'll have with your coaching clients this year.

As you know well, there is so much to do at the end of the year. Checklists everywhere,

classrooms to clean out, final meetings to attend. It can be easy to get stuck on autopilot.

But doing so will be a disservice to the hard work that you and your clients have put in this year.

So don't let your last coaching session end with a fizzle.

Instead, plan a purposeful end-of-year reflection that celebrates your client's growth and reflects on your work together.

And that's what you'll hear me demonstrate in today's episode.

This demonstration is a portion of my end-of-year conversations with clients' skill session that you can access in the

Coach Learning Library and PLC. This month, all of the skill sessions focus on closing out the year,

from conversations with admin to gathering data on your client's growth, to conducting your own

end-of-year reflection. The peak end rule tells us that how a person experiences an ending

matters tremendously, that people judge an experience based on how they felt at its peak

and its end, rather than the total sum or average of an entire experience.

That means that your final conversation is arguably one of the most critical for your coaching

relationship. And I want to make sure that you and your clients end this year on the best

possible note. So here's what you need to know about this roleplay demonstration. I am going to be facilitating

an end-of-year conversation with Ellen. In this roleplay, this is our first year working together,

but we've been meeting two times a month all year. Ellen is a middle school reading teacher. And this is the

first time that I've incorporated an end-of-year reflection into our work together, so you'll hear

me introduce what she can expect. Now, in this episode, you'll hear a portion of the conversation.

If you are interested in hearing Ellen and I debrief the entire conversation, including my

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