Share
The Daily SEL Leader
A Guided Journal
First Edition
Additional resources:
March 2021 | 232 pages | Corwin
Everyone in your school community benefits when you invest in YOU.
Social-emotional learning is one of the hottest education topics today. Most of the focus, however, has been at the student level. The truth is that school leaders can’t implement social-emotional learning effectively if they don’t deeply understand it for themselves.
A deeper, renewed self-awareness and understanding of your own and others’ emotional needs is the key to promoting social-emotional learning across your school. Exploring and mastering core social and emotional competencies a little at a time with the help of this guide fits perfectly with the daily demands of being a school leader, team leader, or classroom leader. Using the core CASEL skills presented in six modules, this guided journal will help you:
Because human growth and leadership go hand in hand, meeting students, teachers, and colleagues where they are at emotionally will begin a ripple effect and leave a lasting impact on your learning community. To do that, however, you must first focus on developing your own SEL skills.
Social-emotional learning is one of the hottest education topics today. Most of the focus, however, has been at the student level. The truth is that school leaders can’t implement social-emotional learning effectively if they don’t deeply understand it for themselves.
A deeper, renewed self-awareness and understanding of your own and others’ emotional needs is the key to promoting social-emotional learning across your school. Exploring and mastering core social and emotional competencies a little at a time with the help of this guide fits perfectly with the daily demands of being a school leader, team leader, or classroom leader. Using the core CASEL skills presented in six modules, this guided journal will help you:
- Become more self-aware of what each CASEL skill means for leadership
- Build stronger relationships throughout schools, classrooms, and communities
- Increase credibility and approachability
- Engage stakeholders confidently
Because human growth and leadership go hand in hand, meeting students, teachers, and colleagues where they are at emotionally will begin a ripple effect and leave a lasting impact on your learning community. To do that, however, you must first focus on developing your own SEL skills.
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Module 1: Self-Awareness
Week 1.1: Developing Accurate Self-Perception
Week 1.2: Strengths of Emotions
Week 1.3: Developing Self-Confidence
Week 1.4: Developing Self-Efficacy
Module 2: Self-Management
Week 2.1: Self-Motivation
Week 2.2: Goal Setting and Productive Habits
Week 2.3: Organizational Skills
Week 2.4: Impulse Control
Week 2.5: Stress Management
Week 2.6: Self-Discipline
Module 3: Social Awareness
Week 3.1: Perspective Taking
Week 3.2: Empathy
Week 3.3: Appreciating Diversity
Week 3.4: Respect for Others
Module 4: Relationship Skills
Week 4.1: Communication
Week 4.2: Social Engagement
Week 4.3: Relationship Building
Week 4.4: Teamwork
Module 5: Responsible Decision Making
Week 5.1: Identifying Problems
Week 5.2: Analyzing Situations
Week 5.3: Solving Problems
Week 5.4: Evaluating
Week 5.5: Reflecting
Week 5.6: Ethical Responsibility
Module 6: Next Steps
Appendix A
Appendix B
References
Free resources
Podcast: Leading SEL by Modeling It With James Bailey & Randy Weiner
In this Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast episode, The Daily SEL Leader authors discuss how social-emotional learning is personal work, and school leaders have to be willing to engage in the work themselves before they can lead others in doing the work.