Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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By creating emotion collages with symbolism, words, and images, high school students boost their emotional literacy.

Though art teacher Mindy Sizemore’s students at Spring Mills High School in Martinsburg, West Virginia, had been taught about feelings before,  she realized those lessons  probably started—and likely ended—at the elementary level. But she knew that high school students need to deepen their understanding of emotions in order to succeed in their adult lives. So she developed an activity she calls “emotion collages” to boost her students’ emotional literacy skills: how to identify and name the range of emotions they experience, and how to understand and navigate the feelings of others.  

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