Lesson Plans

1. Social Emotional Learning Through the Art presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2. The Synergy of Arts Education and Social- Emotional Learning — Art Education and SEL can prepare students to address trauma and inequity.

3. Embedding the Framework for Arts Education and Social Emotional Learning

4. Visual Arts (5th): Responding & Social Awareness

5. Music (HS Accomplished): Creating & Self-Awareness

6. Dance (HS Proficient): Connecting & Self-Management — Retrieved from SELarts.org

7. Modifying Educator Preparation and Credentialing to Include Social-Emotional and Character Development

ArtsEDSEL

ArtsEDSEL does an excellent job of explaining in depth why Social-Emotional learning is essential for growth in children, especially in Arts Education. It focuses on advocating for the intersection of social emotional learning and art education!

VOLUME ONE

1. ArtsEdSEL: Centralizing Social Emotional Learning Within the Arts

2. Identity, Belonging, and Agency: Reframing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in Arts Education

3. Planning Artistic Social Emotional Learning: Embedded, Intentional, Sustained

4. Utilizing the Framework for Arts Education and Social Emotional Learning

5. Embedding the Framework for Arts Education and Social Emotional Learning

6. On the Road Again: Using the Arts as a Vehicle for Students’ Social Emotional Learning

7. Cultivating Student Empowerment Through Artistic SEL

8. Brave Spaces: How to Empower Staff and Students via SEL and a Trauma-Informed Approach

VOLUME TWO

1. How Do We Operationalize Artistic-SEL? Utilizing the STAY Framework for Embedded, Intentional and Sustained Social and Emotional Learning

2. Teaching How We Were Taught: Student Perspectives of SEL in Arts Teacher Preparation Programs

3. Measuring Artistic-SEL Closing the Gap Between Awareness and Meaningful Application

4. Arts Teacher as Reflective Practitioner for Personal SEL Growth

Podcasts

Art of Communication: Tune in as Angelica and Isabella of the SECD South Brunswick team explain how you can foster positive communication in special education classrooms!

Community Canvas Podcast: Learn how SEL serves as a supporting tool for special education classrooms with Jenny and Victoria, field researchers from the SECD team!

Edutopia Sources

Orienting Educators to SEL Through Video | Edutopia - Check out each of these distinctive videos that show educators, parents, and school leaders what social-emotional learning looks like in action in the classroom.

Using the Arts to Promote SEL-- Arts-infused social and emotional learning activities help elementary students build emotional awareness, focus, and empathy. 

Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning in Elementary School Through the Arts | Edutopia -- Elementary students can build a sense of community and awaken a lifelong interest in the arts with these simple classroom strategies. 

Additional Resources