ESLOs Unite:
A Mural for
Shared Vitality

Art that changes
the space permanently

ESLOs Unite is a student-led public art project that resulted in a permanent mural on the MUIDS campus. Students were invited to submit proposals connecting the school's Expected Schoolwide Learning Outcomes (ESLOs) to the PERMA elements of student wellbeing. A selection committee chose one lead artist, who then formed a team and led the painting process over a series of sessions.

The physical environment of a school can communicate the community's values. A mural designed by students, about wellbeing, installed permanently in a shared space makes those values visible every day, to every student who walks past it.

Making values
physically present

Most wellbeing initiatives are invisible once you leave the room they happen in. The mural project is deliberately different. The work is permanent, publicly sited, and made by students for the whole school community — which means its impact is not limited to the students who participated in making it.

The project also gave students a genuine design brief — not a decorative task, but a conceptual challenge: how do you visualize the connection between who the school wants you to become and what it means to thrive? That is a serious artistic and intellectual question, and the students treated it as one.

Four phases from
proposal to unveiling

The project ran in four phases, with two full-day Painting Parties held outside of normal school hours. .

CASEL & PERMA

The mural project directly addresses Meaning and Relationships within the PERMA model. Students experienced genuine ownership of a lasting school artifact — work that outlasts the academic year and continues to contribute to campus culture. Within CASEL, the project developed Responsible Decision-Making and Social Awareness through the collaborative design process and the community-facing nature of the final work.