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Leadership & Collaboration

Eleventh graders build relationship skills for leading and working on a team — listening, sharing credit, giving respectful direction, and lifting others up. Real leadership serves the group, not the ego. They sort strong leadership from poor, then plan how to lead well.

Grade 11Leadership & Collaboration45 minutes1 class periodCASELExplicit teaching4 StandardsCASEL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Describe good leadership.
  • ✓Tell strong from poor.
  • ✓Collaborate and share credit.
  • ✓Lead a team well.
Essential Question

What makes someone a leader people actually want to follow?

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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Strong Leader, or Poor?

Project this and sort each behavior into Strong leader & teammate or Poor.

💪 Sort each — strong leadership, or poor?Try it
💪 Strong leader & teammate
👎 Poor
Tap a behavior, then tap a box.
The Lesson · SEL Flow (Check-In · Learn · Practice · Apply · Reflect)

45 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Check-In — Who Would You Follow?

5 min

Think of a great team leader. What made them great?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Share a trait.
  • Invite a few.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Think.
  • Share.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Leadership

11 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Strong Leader or Poor?
  • Sort each behavior.
  • Note serve the group, share credit.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Note it.
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Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a strong leadership move.
  • Give respectful direction.
  • Share credit in words.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name.
  • Direct.
  • Share.
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Apply — Apply

11 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Pick a leadership skill to build.
  • Plan to use it on a team.
  • Name who you will lift up.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Pick.
  • Plan.
  • Name.
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Reflect — Reflect

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a strong-leader trait.
  • Name a poor one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Name one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the CASEL Framework for Social and Emotional Learning across its five core competencies.

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Relationship Skills

Demonstrate leadership and teamwork.

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Relationship Skills

Communicate and cooperate effectively.

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Social Awareness

Value every team member’s contribution.

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Responsible Decision-Making

Take responsibility as a leader.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Behavior cards (strong/poor).
  • Frame: "a strong leader ___."
  • Role-play leading.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Sort strong vs poor only.
  • Use 4 behaviors.
  • Use sentence frames.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Lead a group activity.
  • Give feedback as a leader.
  • Reflect on your leadership style.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 💪Behavior cards
  • 💻Strong Leader or Poor?
  • 🗣️Leadership prompts
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

leadershipguiding a group toward a goalcollaborationworking together welldelegateshare tasks fairlycreditrecognizing others’ workaccountabilityowning outcomesdirectionclear, respectful guidanceservant leaderone who serves the groupinitiativestepping up to help
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Name a strong leadership trait.
Listening, sharing credit, or giving respectful direction.
QUESTION 2
Name a poor one.
Taking all the credit, ignoring ideas, or bossing people around.
QUESTION 3
Who does real leadership serve?
The group — not the ego.

Reflect: leadership & collaboration.

Have students pick one leadership skill to build on a team. A printable leadership sheet is in the SEL library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Relationship Skills: Leadership & CollaborationPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: accountability, collaboration, credit, delegate, direction, initiative, leadership, servant leader
  1. owning outcomes
  2. stepping up to help
  3. clear, respectful guidance
  4. one who serves the group
  5. share tasks fairly
  6. recognizing others’ work
  7. working together well
  8. guiding a group toward a goal

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name a strong leadership trait.
  2. Name a poor one.
  3. Who does real leadership serve?
Answer key — Part A: 1) accountability · 2) initiative · 3) direction · 4) servant leader · 5) delegate · 6) credit · 7) collaboration · 8) leadership
Part B: 1) Listening, sharing credit, or giving respectful direction. 2) Taking all the credit, ignoring ideas, or bossing people around. 3) The group — not the ego.