Education Week

Guiding students through the bold colors and statements of graffiti art. Teaching them how to blend their voices in song. Arts experiences like these can open students to new ways of thinking. But they can also offer teachers powerful opportunities to develop students’ social and emotional skills.

The trick to maximizing that potential, according to a new report, is careful thought and planning. If arts teachers recognize that each “arts practice”—or component of arts instruction—draws on specific social or emotional skills, they can design their teaching to facilitate students’ growth in those skills...