Teach SEAL

What is SEAL?

We know that Arts Integration is an amazing way to engage our students in authentic learning experiences. Now, you can learn how to integrate them with Social-Emotional Learning through SEAL!

SEAL is a method of integrating the Arts into Social-Emotional Learning using Casel’s Social Emotional Competencies. It is a natural fit!

Here you will find resources, ideas and articles about how to utilize SEAL strategies to help your students build both their Artistic learning and their SEL competencies. This is the ultimate in True Arts Integration because it is such natural and meaningful fit.

SEAL Articles

Learn more about how the Arts can be integrated with SEL in these informative articles.

SEAL Lesson & Tools

Browse our library of SEAL Lesson Plans & Tools

SEAL Retreats for Teachers

Be sure to attend a SEAL Retreat, built just for teachers!

SEAL Self-Paced Course

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Learn about how the Arts can be integrated with SEL in this self-paced, online course! There will be options for graduate credit too.

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Free SEAL ebook

Get started right away with SEAL with this introductory ebook. Included are how all the social-emotional learning competencies are naturally connected to the arts. This ebook also includes 2 of our most popular SEAL lesson plans and 1 of our best SEAL tools: the emotion wheel.

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UPCOMING retreat

Don’t forget to check out our library of posts containing information and tons of ideas for SEAL!

Artful Community

At the beginning of the school year, teachers want to send a message to their students: “We are a community of learners, together we will challenge each other and share with one another.” We have a variety of ways to go about doing this and for some, they try to do...

Music Sets the Tone

In recent weeks, I've been researching out how to use music as a tool for focusing and working in preparation for one of the focuses of this year's Winter Teacher Art Retreat. We probably have all experienced music (or the lack of it) in a variety of places:...

Teach SEAL While Listening to Music

Listening to music has so many benefits and it can be a wonderful way to integrate music into your classroom. Whether you Soundtrack your Classroom or use Active Listening (Listen with a purpose) strategies, you can teach music standards that will also connect to...

Music to Learn By – Soundtracking My Classroom

In my last post, Music Sets the Tone, I described my intention of using music more in my classroom as a backdrop to all our activities. It's been over a week that I have been faithfully soundtracking my classroom! I have...

SEL Song Lyrics

What better way to teach students about Social Emotional Learning than through the ARTS? A colleague of mine said it best: "Art IS SEL!" And if music is an expression of humanity, then music is a way we can learn about our...

Introducing SEAL (Social-Emotional Artistic Learning)

I am excited to begin a new journey with The Inspired Classroom's readership! SEAL! Social-Emotional Artistic Learning For years now, I have been exploring how arts integration strategies can be applied to the SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) competencies...

Art at a Science Museum

Over the summer I was finally able to bring my family to the Boston Museum of Science. My kids are at the perfect age to enjoy and explore the exhibits and activities: everything from the dinosaurs to the electricity, the explorations of sound and space. We saw a show...

Sharing Friendly Fridays – Making Origami Lotus Flowers

For the last two months, my class has been doing something special each Friday: Friendly Fridays. These are small activities that build on Social Relationships between classmates. In the past they have made notes and pictures for each other and practiced writing and...