Building Social-Emotional Learning into Your Curriculum

Do you or your teachers tend to think of socio-emotional learning (SEL) as something separate from music learning? Master teacher/writer Jeffrey Benson, at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), offers some helpful tips on building socio-emotional skills into teaching. His article, “Small (But Important) Steps to Integrating SEL into Lessons” emphasizes independent learning and self-advocacy. The article includes excerpts from Benson’s new book, Improve Every Lesson Plan with SEL.