An education in the arts (dance, media arts, music, theater, and/or visual arts) provides students with quantifiable social, emotional, and academic benefits. Through arts integration, teachers of academic subjects such as Math, History, Science, and English can incorporate elements of the arts into their classrooms as strategies to teach their discipline content. This literature review synthesizes research on the social, emotional, and academic benefits of arts integration and provides recommendations for implementing arts integration practices in the classroom. As schools consider expanding learning options for students, and teachers seek out opportunities to incorporate social and emotional learning into their classrooms, arts integration practices provide a way to integrate these experiences into the classroom while also providing additional academic resources.