Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources
Today, students and teachers are facing unprecedented challenges that require new and adaptable life skills, and music is the perfect medium to teach these skills. Students find safety, belonging, and comfort in music classrooms, and we can build upon this common musical identity to help students create amazing music and confront the challenges of life. In recent years, the terms “well-being” and “Social Emotional Learning” have become buzzwords that are too big for anyone to understand. But the resources on this page provide teachers and students with precise, tangible, and organic ways to embed SEL into the music classroom.
Musical SEL Reflection Questions and Conversation Starters (40 flashcards)
Effective musical Social Emotional Learning (SEL) requires authentic communication. The reflection questions and conversation starters on these color-coded cards will help teachers and students communicate in ways that embed SEL into music instruction while developing musical and life skills. The prompts are designed to deepen student connection, amplify students’ voices, and foster an authentic sense of belonging in the music classroom. This bite-sized resource captures more than a decade of Dr. Scott Edgar’s work and research on embedding SEL in music education.
Portraits of Social Emotional Learning in Music Teacher EducationTeaching Music with Heart
Music teacher educators from across the country share their inspiring stories and unique approaches to embedding Social Emotional Learning (SEL) into teacher education programs, courses, field experiences, curriculum, and policy at the collegiate level.
Social Emotional Learning for the Pre-Service and In-Service Music Teacher
This practical guide takes teachers through thirteen sequential units designed to hone important self-care and SEL skills, such as regulating emotions, resolving conflict, managing stress, and building positive relationships.
Portraits of Music Education and Social Emotional Learning
This book showcases the inspiring stories and innovative ideas of music educators who are implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) instruction with intentionality in their classrooms at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Music Education and Social Emotional Learning The Heart of Teaching Music
This pioneering book by Scott Edgar addresses how music educators can utilize Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to maximize learning in the choral, instrumental, and general music classroom at all levels, and at the same time support a student’s social and emotional growth.
Music Education and Social Emotional Learning Student Workbook
This convenient workbook contains thirty practical and engaging activities for music educators implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum in their classrooms. Coordinates with Music Education and Social Emotional Learning.
The ABCs of My Feelings and Music
This children’s book by Scott and Stephanie Edgar is the perfect way to expand emotional vocabulary while learning about what makes music emotional. Each letter of the alphabet has a beautifully illustrated emotion word and three pieces of music that could evoke that emotion. This leads to a classroom where listening, discussion, and respectful disagreement are explored.
Pathways to Joy and Meaning Social Emotional Learning in Theatre Education
Pathways to Joy and Meaning is a transformative guide designed for theatre educators seeking to embed Social Emotional Learning (SEL) into their instruction—in the classroom, on the stage, or behind the scenes.
Social Emotional Learning Complete Bundle
This bundle includes all the essential Social Emotional Learning resources from Scott Edgar at a discounted price. All must-have materials for music educators!
Social Emotional Learning College Professor Bundle
This bundle includes all the essential Social Emotional Learning resources for college professors at a discounted price.
Social Emotional Learning College Student Bundle
This bundle includes all the essential Social Emotional Learning resources for college music students at a discounted price.
More Resources:
Music for All website: https://education.musicforall.org/sel/
Center for Arts Education and Social Emotional Learning (ArtsEdSEL): www.artsedsel.org
Scott N. Edgar Bio:
Click here to learn more about Scott N. Edgar and the work he is doing with Social Emotional Learning.