The Maui Arts and Cultural Center is bridging CanDo! Day lessons with Social Emotional Learning and Culturally Responsive teaching. This year the Teaching Artists Institute had a special focus on SEL rooted in culture. The CanDo! Days lessons provide an opportunity to guide Hawaiʻi's keiki in bridging social emotional learning, culturally relevant pedagogy, and arts integration. The Teaching Artists (TA) will offer creative lessons to inspire, encourage and invigorate students to make connections between art, SEL, and culture. As quoted by one of this year's TA's, the educational lessons and learnings focus on "the heart and soul of students and teachers in our discovery of ourselves".

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Our lessons this year were supported by many different cultural and artistic consultants and inspired by the text ʻOhana Means Family.