Deeper Learning Boston

Students tell the stories of their lives in a myriad of ways. In this Deep Dive, educators will learn this technique of telling personal stories through sound; and gain the skills to help their own students share about their identities through personal narratives that offer all learners the skills of storytelling beyond the traditional visual and written form.

Specifically, this Deep Dive is for:

a. teachers, regardless of their discipline or age group they interact with. The interdisciplinary focus of making meaning of sounds in our environment transcends discipline or age group boundaries. Listening, interpreting, and making meaning of our sound environment allows for discovery across disciplinary lenses. Teacher participants will explore this practice through their individual lens.

b. administrators / curriculum leaders: building learning communities within school practice starts with the practice of being “present”. Administrators and curriculum leaders will gain insight in how to narrow focus to engage community members on a task that builds communities of learners.


We will ask questions and model what students will learn about human interaction, engagement and empowerment in the environment, so that all students and teachers have more awareness of things that are not visual. Drawing on practices such as deep listening, meditation through sound and sound bathing, participants will practice making brief field recordings, and then go out into the field to collect their own sounds. Once together again, they will share those sounds with the group in a listening session.