expressive arts
The YAH Expressive Arts Initiative provides each campus with a long-term residency in the form of a dedicated physical space where students attend during or after school in collaboration with campus teachers and YAH Teaching Artists year-round. Workshops and Residencies are aligned with TEKS through YAH's SEL Curriculum.
The ability to manage emotions and establish and maintain positive relationships with others is an integral part of a student’s development process and impacts their school performance. Involvement in the arts has been correlated to positive effects on students’ social and emotional skills. Arts processes provide students with an alternate channel for experiencing, expressing, and managing emotions and relationships. The five competencies of social-emotional learning (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management, and responsible decision-making) are a natural part of creating, collaborating, revising, and performing in the arts. Young Audiences’ artists are experienced in utilizing artistic processes to practice and hone students’ SEL skills in non-threatening and engaging ways. These experiences can be tied to curricular content or focus solely on the five competencies.
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Improve empathy
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Promote understanding among diverse groups
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Increase interpersonal connections and understanding
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Build leadership and conflict resolution skills
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A deeper understanding of one’s own emotions and healthy ways to express them
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Experience creating and maintaining positive relationships
