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In the arts, SEL has a very direct outlet to expression and self awareness. For students, there can be really direct engagement in creating work that helps express emotions, thoughts, feelings, or scenarios where they might have troubling expressing in words.

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SEL is important in the arts because the arts is such a rich medium for expressing all of the aspects of a person's SEL. For example, someone's self-awareness of how they're feeling, can be expressed in arts education activities. For example, someone's social awareness of a culture can be expressed in arts education activities.

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SEL is important in the arts because it helps students process and learn new ways to manage their emotions for themselves as well as others. Students may feel more comfortable expressing themselves emotionally through art than in conversation. It can also help develop new skills that can increase confidence, empathy, resilience, etc.

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It helps create a safe family community where students learn how to express their emotions and build self confidence.

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Art is naturally a very vulnerable form of expression and to take ideas and create something is very intertwined with self-awareness.

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It is important to model emotional intelligence from the rules or norms into creating arts and collaborating with other students. SEL is developing good coping skills inside the classroom that can be apply outside of the school as well. It is taking the words from the posters into action by creating new outlets of expression.

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SEL is vital in the subject areas of the Arts, as it gives the opportunity for students to express themselves in self-introspective ways. It can provide essential healthy coping strategies for students, and can "unlock" students who have been otherwise closed off or disengaged. SEL and the Arts go hand in hand with self-expression, the multi-faceted dynamics of relationships, and creativity.

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SEL is important to set a sense of community, a safe learning environment,
and celebrating diversity.

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SEL is important in the arts because it gives kids a way to express their feelings when they may not know how to put their emotions into words.

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I think SEL in the arts is especially important because the arts are the area in which we focus the most on personal understanding and self-awareness. By highlighting how we can understand ourselves through art, it can help students understand their own feelings and emotions as well as empathizing with others (for example, understanding why others chose to express themselves artistically in certain ways).

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SEL is important in the arts because it is a great way to express ones feelings and emotions in a constructive way which is good for self awareness.

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It helps create that safe community where they can express emotions and be social aware with the other that are involved in these different aspects of art.  Celebration of arts in other cultures also helps the SEL learning component of social awareness and develops the sense of community even more in a learning environment.  SEL is so important in the arts because it is an expressive outlet and to be able to be expressive, one has to feel comfortable and accepted to show their full potential.

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SEL is important in arts education because it fosters individual expression and understanding of emotions through art. Not only does art allow student to visually represent their feelings, but they can develop empathy for others who may feel differently.

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SEL is important in the arts because the the arts already encourage students to connect with their emotions, express themselves, and share their thoughts. So the Arts are subjects that can lend themselves to SEL instruction, and vice versa.

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SEL is important in the Arts because it helps kids express themselves in a way that they might not be able to put into words. It also helps kids deal with big issues in an emotionally safe way.