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SchoolArts editor-in-chief Frank Juárez considers how vulnerability and active listening can help us better understand ourselves and others. 

Editor's Letter | Understanding

Art teachers demonstrate how vulnerability, observation, and active listening can help students understand themselves and others. Young students use creative learning strategies to make sense of everyday challenges; elementary students use storytelling to explore different perspectives; middle school students design dream rooms while considering the needs of their communities; and high school students bring individual postcards together in a mural promoting kindness.

The Understanding Issue, November 2026, offers art educators fresh lessons, interviews, and classroom tips to deepen empathy and understanding through art.

The Understanding Issue, November 2026

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