Experience and explore different ways in which percussion music can enrich Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) practices in your classroom. Participants will hear and see work samples created by students and teachers who experienced the Young Audiences Progressive Percussion & Mindfulness residency with Hector Morales.

Participants will identify and share emotional and sensory vocabulary, as well as co-create meditative music and a meditation. Participants will imagine different applications for the needs of individual classrooms, while considering the collective impact on school climate and culture. No musical background is necessary to be able to enjoy and/or implement the techniques presented in this session.

Recommended Participants

• Educators
• Arts Specialists

Learning Intentions

Educators will:

• Identify and share emotional vocabulary.
• Experience a meditative music and movement experience.
• Co-creating meditative music.
• Apply language of the senses to co-create a meditation.
• Identify one percussion and mindfulness ritual to use in their teaching and learning practice.

YA Connections

• NJSLS-VPA: Artistic Process; Creating; Anchor Standard 1: Conceptualizing & Generating Ideas
• NJSLS-VPA: Artistic Process; Responding
• Anchor Standard 7: Perceiving and Analyzing Products Culturally Responsive Practice
• Social Emotional Learning – Transformative

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

Standard 3: Equity & Culture

Examples Created by Past Participants

• Guided Meditation: Journey Through Africa
• Podcast for Percussion and Mindfulness at Sussex School

When you pair this program with Hector Morales’s workshop or assembly, Hector provides teachers with the in-classroom support implementing creative teaching practices, what they have learned into practice.