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Fostering Social Emotional Learning In and Through the Arts

Social Emotional Learning is essential to students’ well-being and New Jersey is a leader in the growing national conversation about the intersection of Social Emotional Learning and Arts Education. There is complete integration between the four artistic processes (Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting) and the five Social Emotional Learning competencies (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Responsible Decision Making, Relationship Skills). 
 
Participation in the arts fosters collaboration, empathy, and critical thinking. To learn more about embedding social-emotional learning into curriculum and instruction visit selarts.org. 
 
Explore the resources on this page and join the conversation!
ArtsEdSEL: Centralizing Social Emotional Learning Within the Arts
Identity, Belonging, and Agency: Reframing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in Arts Education
Planning Artistic Social Emotional Learning: Embedded, Intentional, Sustained
Utilizing the Framework for Arts Education and Social Emotional Learning
Embedding the Framework for Arts Education and Social Emotional Learning
On the Road Again: Using the Arts as a Vehicle for Students’ Social Emotional Learning
Cultivating Student Empowerment Through Artistic SEL
Brave Spaces: How to Empower Staff and Students Through SEL and a Trauma-Informed Approach
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“ Embedded, intentional, and sustained attention to SEL in schools and through arts education can help facilitate moving students from trauma back to trusting relationships and environments. This potential has long been imperative and prized in arts classrooms.”
Source: Heart of the Arts Brief March 2021
“Funneling our challenges into the artistic process and products is our answer to building a road forward through arts education and social emotional learning.”
Source: Heart of the Arts Brief May 2021
“Artistic SEL rooted in culturally relevant practices will prepare students to think critically and creatively when addressing challenges; model multiple ways to envision solutions; offer constructive pathways for healing when faced with trauma; and build students’ aptitude to regard and express joy, curiosity, and wonder.”
Source: Heart of the Arts BriefJune 2021
“The Framework is a tool that can help educators shape learning experiences and ensure that specific social emotional skills are intentionally being addressed at a developmentally appropriate level, thereby enriching and deepening the arts learning.”
Source: Heart of the Arts BriefJuly 2021
“To elevate the arts education processes beyond traditional excellence requires courage to explore our students’ lives and facilitate this connection.”
Source: Heart of the Arts BriefAugust 2021
“SEL and the arts are a logical partnership as the arts traditionally involve cathartic elements and outlets for emotions or feelings. ”
Source: Heart of the Arts BriefSept 2021
“However, since the culture of each classroom consists of contributions and experiences from all its members, sustained youth empowerment requires honoring the identities and cultural realities and riches all the students bring with them.”
Source: Heart of the Arts BriefOct 2021
“Activities such as dancing, playing the drums, drawing, or embodying a character in a play are engaging activities that can help a student’s brain recenter within the arts classroom.”
Source: Heart of the Arts BriefNov 2021
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Arts Ed NJ was founded in 2007 with the mission to provide a unified voice for a diverse group of constituents who agree on the educational benefits and impact of the arts, specifically the contribution they make to student achievement and a civilized, sustainable society.

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