This document summarizes a presentation by Edward A. Reed and Darryl V. Johnson on social emotional leadership. The presentation was given at the LEAD conference in Chicago in February 2015. It discusses the importance of social emotional learning and developing social emotional leaders. It notes several societal trends that make social emotional skills important for students' future success. The presentation suggests that leadership, collaboration, cultural agility, creativity, and other soft skills will be important for students' future careers and advises preparing students by focusing on hope, compassion, stability and trust. It provides tips for social emotional leadership in schools such as personalizing the experience, developing passionate leaders, fostering positive connections, and listening to student voices.

1. Presented by: Edward A. Reed, Resource Counselor
Darryl V. Johnson, Assistant Principal
Robert Frost Middle School, MCPS
Chicago, IL
LEAD Conference
The Westin Lombard
Yorktown Center
February 13–15,
2015

2. Be Your Best S. E. L. F.
Social Emotional Leadership is the Foundation to
Success
Mr. Edward A. Reed, M.Ed.
Professional Speaker
Award Winning Educator
Wellness & Leadership Coach
Mr. Darryl V. Johnson, M.Ed.
Professional Speaker
Award Winning Educator
Student Program Developer

3. • Social Emotional Learning
• Social Emotional Leaders
• Be Your Best S.E.L.F

4. • Think back to someone who has greatly influenced you. Think about the
characteristics that made that person so inspiring and motivating.
• Get up out of your seat and form groups of five. Briefly share thoughts
with your group. Be prepared to share one or two thoughts with the
whole group.
YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES FOR THIS ACTIVITY

6. • Increased pace of life
• Greater economic demands on parents
• Alterations in family composition and stability
• Breakdown of neighborhoods and extended families
• Weakening of community institutions
• Unraveling of parent-child bonds due to work, school demands, time,
drugs, mental health, and economic burdens
• Climate of war, terror
• Ongoing exposure to an array of digital media and pervasive
advertising that encourage violence as a problem-solving tool and
other health-damaging behaviors and unrealistic lifestyles

14. Why is it important to be a competent Social Emotional Leader?
What will your students be doing with their lives 10 years from
now?
Based on current global trends, how are we preparing students
to be successful for their future?

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16. Leadership remains the No. 1 talent issue facing organizations
around the world. Companies face an urgent need to develop
leaders at all levels—from bringing younger leaders online
faster.

19. Developing Millennials and multiple generations of leaders.
Meeting the demand for leaders with global fluency and
flexibility.
Building the ability to innovate and inspire others to perform.
Acquiring new levels of understanding of rapidly changing
technologies and new disciplines and fields.

20. Business acumen: Understanding the core business well
Collaboration: Having the ability to build cross-functional teams
Global cultural agility: Managing diversity and inclusion
Creativity: Driving innovation and entrepreneurship

21. Customer-centricity: Enhancing effective customer
relationships
Influence and inspiration: Setting direction and driving
employees to achieve business goals
Building teams and talent: Developing people and creating
effective teams

22. 1. Trust
2. Compassion
3. Stability
4. Hope

23. Hope is a critical layer in
the foundation of
leadership!

24. “The very least you can do in your
life is figure out what you hope for.
And the most you can do is live
inside that hope. Not admire it from
a distance but live right in it, under
its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal
Dreams

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26. 1. Care and “Be There” that’s all kids really want to know
(Personalize the school experience)
2. Leading with Love leverages the law of averages
3. Develop leaders who are passionate about change
4. Positive connections create the experiences you want in life
5. Never miss an opportunity to model excellence for students
6. Teach your students to use data to assess and inform
7. Student voices must be heard
8. Plant the “seeds” of leadership now to create a self-sustaining
harvest of future leaders!

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Activity #2
• On the back of the IPhone, answer the question,
“What makes you…YOU?” Write three examples.
• Pair-Share(Elbow Partner) and Square (Find
another pair)
• Share out answers

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