Initially revealed October 2024
Hope Stone, based in 1997 by Jane Weiner, is a non-profit arts group at the moment serving over 900 underserved Houston-area kids and adults. To perform that, we use our artistic conscious arts therapeutic and schooling outreach program, The Hope Challenge. We intention to share our free digital useful resource for lecturers: an interactive Social Emotional Studying (SEL) kids’s video collection, referred to as “smART breaks.”
The One Cease Store
smART breaks is a free digital arts library. It encompasses interactive music, theater, and dance lessons, and in addition teaches elementary college kids SEL competencies. smART breaks mimics a lot of the work we do with our in-person lessons by way of our work inside The Hope Challenge. The 37 participatory episodes are designed with an emphasis on the humanities, social studying, and self-regulation, fostering alternatives to encourage artistic pondering, apply social abilities, and bolster tutorial success.
Accessible Classes
The digital library is damaged into age classes for Pre-Kindergarten by way of Higher Elementary. With these episodes, educators, mother and father, and caregivers can mix arts schooling and mindfulness at house or within the classroom. Every smART breaks episode has a number of viewing choices (downloadable, Vimeo, or YouTube) for straightforward accessibility. It’s accompanied by two worksheets for folks or lecturers to make use of with their college students: a vocabulary checklist for artistic actions, and a Texas Important Information and Abilities (TEKS) Information with Social and Emotional Studying (SEL) Competencies.
The web library breaks the episodes into two age classes, Pre-Kindergarten by way of Decrease Elementary and Higher Elementary. Every episode is 20–25 minutes in size, with particular grade/age suggestions positioned underneath every video.
What does a smART breaks episode appear like?
- The primary 5–7 minutes: Introduction by two longtime associates—Captain Hope, a pilot and adventurist, and Mr. Zo, a gardener and nursing pupil, who moved from Good, California to Houston, Texas. Settled into their new house, they invite their educating artist associates and neighbors over to show partaking and enjoyable lessons.
- Heat-up (5 minutes): The good friend visits, typically getting into by way of a enjoyable “entrance door” (the storage trunk or fridge). They all the time carry a dietary fruit/vegetable as a present to find out about briefly.
- Exercise/Lesson (5–8 minutes): The viewers follow-along by way of the category.
- Closing moments: Each episode ends with a evaluate of the “Superior Guidelines” and a enjoyable tune about being sort.
Artwork transcends cultural boundaries. With this concept, the smART breaks episodes are a solution to carry academic, entertaining, and interactive SEL artwork into any house, classroom, or facility.