Leadership Skills

Aligns with CASEL 5 & The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards & Competencies

Encouraging Eddie is the fifth story from Powerful You (grades 2-adult). Eddie is used by schools and homes to encourage leadership and teamwork skills to work effectively in diverse teams. Eddie also fosters a positive attitude toward work and learning.

20-MINUTE LESSON PLAN

Launch Introduce the A-Z Powerful You theme.
Breathe and Stretch Practice self-awareness and self-management with the Powerful You free movement videos on this page. Simply hit play or gain a new movement idea for your mindfulness toolbox.
Connect Read the true short story from the 8.5 x 11 laminated Powerful You Educator Cards.
Promote a Positive Mindset Stand tall and practice each story’s positive self-talk.
Reflect Social-awareness, relationship skills, and problem-solving skills escalate when students are given turn and talk time for each journaling prompt. Learn from them and allow optional sharing.
Role-play Students hold the Powerful You Educator Card and act out desired behaviors.
Leave an SEL Footprint Copy and display the Digital Powerful You Classroom Social Skill Sign.
Expand Use the Powerful You Book or resources below. Make it your own!Be You! You are more powerful than you know!

More Quotes

· “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

· “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

· “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie

· “The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I”. They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” – Peter Drucker

· “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” – John Hume

· Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. – Vince Lombardi

· “Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon

· “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

· “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle