Why Take Orff Levels?

What to Expect When Taking an Orff Level

Making It Work: Level I by Elaine Larson

Making It Work: Level II by Betsy Kipperman Sebring

Making It Work: Level III by Rob Amchin

Links to Learn More and Find a Course Near You!

2024 AOSA Teacher Education Course List

Frequently Asked Questions about AOSA Teacher Education Levels Courses

Handbook for Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education Courses

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Why Take Orff Levels?

What to Expect When Taking an Orff Level

Making It Work: Level I by Elaine Larson

Making It Work: Level II by Betsy Kipperman Sebring

Making It Work: Level III by Rob Amchin

Find a Course Near You!

AOSA Teacher Education Course List

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Thankfully summer is in sight! If you need some motivation to keep going, we wanted to share some inspirational messages from your fellow music educators.

We invite you to watch and then share your own words of encouragement in the comments below!

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We are thankful for you and the beautiful work you do in the world!

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Thank you for providing this very worthwhile form of professional development!  It is so wonderful to be able to participate in workshops that I will actually use the information that I have gained.

Teaching With Orff has partnered with some amazing educators to bring you online workshops designed to provide new ideas for lessons and to enhance your teaching.

Unless otherwise noted, each workshop is 1.5 hours of professional development.

We invite you to explore our offerings below. Registration for live webinars includes access to the recording and materials. If you missed a live workshop, recordings and downloadable materials from past webinars are also available for purchase.

If you would like to receive a certificate of completion after watching one of our workshops, please email your request to our team at hello@teachingwithorff.com and we will be happy to assist! Be sure to reference the title of the workshop in your email.

If you are trying to access a recording you have previously purchased, please click here to login to your online course library.

Additional questions? Please email our team at hello@teachingwithorff.com – we’re happy to help!

Workshops Available for Purchase

Your online workshops are fully worth the $20! Easy playback, slides and materials, plus pd cert. Love, love, love!

Stephanie, Music Educator

Live Webinar October 30th!

Join us for an engaging musical webinar that explores the intersection of winter music and the experiences of neurodivergent learners. We will focus on senses, successes, and what parents want you to know about their children. Register soon for this inspiring journey where creativity meets inclusivity.

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Experience the beauty of fall through music and movement. Explore creative ways to integrate rhythmic speech, body percussion, improvisation, and elemental instruments to evoke the sounds and sensations of an autumn park.

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Join Judy and Lisa for this illuminating workshop! Come away with some tried and true procedures to introduce and improve improvisation in your classes. Lesson plans and outlines of possibilities will be presented. Though online, you can experience the joy of improvising music and movement in your own home and take it to your students.

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Join the American Center for Elemental Music and Movement in partnership with Teaching With Orff for this online workshop on social justice through the lens of kindness. With entry points of children’s literature, poetry, history, and science, teachers will get materials, plans, and approaches that allow their students to tackle these big ideas through music and movement.

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Many of us enjoy the cool, crisp air of the fall and all of the celebrations that come with this time of year. We also recognize that these traditions are not celebrated by everyone for various reasons. Join Drue Bullington, Liban Gómez, and Jeaneau Julian for ideas that welcome all students to participate in the ever changing colors of our fall landscape! 

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The most important part of having a great school year is having a successful start. Join Kate Bright and Crystal Pridmore as they share their strategies for creating a positive learning environment through story, song, and movement.

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Lesson design for those first weeks of general music sets the tone and lays the foundation for the rest of the school year. Deciding what to do and when can be a challenge. In this webinar, LeslieAnne Bird will share strategies that have worked for her in a variety of situations to help you to design a quality start for your new year. 

Already started? It is not too late to make a few changes for a smooth year ahead! 

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April and May wrap up the year in many ways. Jazz, poetry, standardized testing, awards, and graduations only scratch the surface of what our students experience at this time. How can we as music teachers create fun and engaging lessons around these topics? Can we finish the school year with the love and joy that we had at the beginning? Join Jeaneau, Kate and Liban as they lead you over and through activities to finish out the school year without going under.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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This webinar will take participants on “adventure-based” musical and movement explorations. Engagement is at the forefront, as the activities will be based on stories and ideas that are not only artistically satisfying, but captivating in their content. Participants will have lesson plans that can be used as-is, or modified to meet their specific needs. They will also have a new repertoire of engaging activities that will freshen up any music program with lively and imaginative engagement.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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A playful approach to melody and its many ups and downs, Drue Bullington, Casey Goryeb, and Crystal Pridmore will bring you “next-day-ready” lessons to LEVEL UP your teaching, enchant your young learners, and PUT DOWN THOSE WORRIES about what you’ll teach next! We’ve got you covered!

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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In this webinar, we will look at Cyndee’s arrangement of Carol of the Bells for your classroom or Orff ensemble. You will learn how to process the different parts so that they are easily accessible for your students, as well as how to put the piece together. We’ll find ways to “level up” the arrangement as well as ways to simplify. Bring a barred instrument and a sense of adventure. Happy winter!

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Join Kate Bright, Liban Gomez, and Jeaneau Julian as they share lessons that can be used by a general music teacher or a classroom teacher. Invite your classroom teachers to join us for this session to see how they can incorporate singing, saying, moving, and playing, and creating into their classrooms!

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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LeslieAnne Bird explores ways to craft developmentally appropriate performances that work with the standards and your learning goals and take less time to prepare. She will share alternatives to stage performances that families and administrators love and will help you to brainstorm ideas for challenging performance situations.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Four workshop series – 6 PD hours!

In honor of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, join the Inouye Family for a four-part practicum centered around teaching the stories of others in the classroom. The Inouye Family will share their postmemories of WWII Japanese internment camps and ideas for using music, movement, and stories to experience diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom. 

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 6 professional development hours.

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Join Casey, David, and Natasha as they guide you through simple, fun activities for the end of the year. “Copy and Paste” these activities into your lesson plans and watch your students sing, say, dance, and play through the last day of the school year.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Children’s literature can serve as a powerful vehicle to help navigate different elements of both music and life. Join Kate, Jeaneau, and Liban as they demonstrate how to combine music, playful language, and movement to help students more deeply understand who they truly are. At the end of this session, attendees will have four ready-to-use lesson plans that focus on rhythmic and melodic elements and also connect with social-emotional learning.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Do you have to post an entire year of music lessons for all of your students? Do you want to get ahead with your planning to lighten the load during the school year? In this webinar we will create a plan to craft a year’s worth of lessons, without losing your mind in the process.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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We all know too well the chaos and frenetic pace of the world and the effects it has on our students and classrooms. How can we transform our classrooms into a refuge from the frenzy? How do we create a healthy space for body and mind? Come partake in activities that musically weave elements of calm into classroom practice. Yoga, chanting, interpretive dancing, instrumental explorations, and singing unfolded in calming ways that create a safe and calm environment for students and teachers alike.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Crystal Pridmore and Drue Bullington share a variety of lessons and engaging visuals that you can use with your students right away! You will receive detailed notes that outline several music and movement lessons along with Google slides that translate directly to use with your students.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is an educational buzzword that many music teachers may have difficulty weaving within their already jam-packed teaching schedules. Without guidance, it can also be a challenge to teach with a lens beyond surface-level multiculturalism. In this webinar with Darlene Machacon, teachers will develop an understanding of transformative SEL and what that can look like in the music room. With belonging, identity, and empathy being the main focus, teachers will receive inspiration for student-centered lessons using children’s literature and technology.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Dr. Ware will discuss all aspects of working with students will special needs from decoding an Individualized Education Plan through working with (and without) teacher assistants. Examples of active music making with be shared and discussed. We will discuss adaptations and modifications including adaptive communication devices and adapted music making equipment.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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The 2021-2022 school year has teachers all over the world facing staggering challenges. After a year and a half of enormous stress and global trauma, teachers and students find themselves struggling to find their way back to stability in the classroom. In this webinar, Crystal Pridmore offers insight towards framing the way we think about the mindset children come to school with from a brain-science perspective. Once we explore the way trauma affects the brain and behavioral patterns, we can come up with strategies to manage the behavior and manage ourselves as teachers.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Jeshima will provide support for you to successfully facilitate a community drum circle in your classroom. You will experience using nature as the impetus to create rhythmic building blocks for improvising on a percussion instrument. Jeshima will share drum circle activities that are scaffolded for various ability levels and provide time for you to experience each one in a safe environment. In addition, they will share peer-reviewed research supporting the need for community drum circles in schools and how it will benefit your students and communities.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Music Educators are busy people. Music classrooms and learning spaces are busy places. When busy people are in busy places the environment can get out of hand causing undue stress for everyone. We will learn ways to manage and organize our learning spaces to minimize opportunities for disruption and streamline routine tasks freeing up your time to focus on your musicians in class and your life outside of work.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Children’s books can be the perfect launchpad for a lesson, unit, or performance in your music class. Join the Chaotic Harmony podcast team members – Marc Keehmer, Crystal Pridmore, and Jonathan Seligman – as they share lessons they’ve developed from their favorite children’s books. These lessons are applicable online, in person, or hybrid.  Participants will walk away with three ready-to-use lesson plans from the given books and tools for selecting an appropriate book for the music room.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Ritmo, Tierra, y Cajón, is a unique opportunity to learn traditional rhythms and techniques of the Afro Peruvian cajón while exploring ways to integrate them into our music classroom practices. Participants are guided by experienced cajón player and trained Orff Schulwerk educator, Sebastian Guerrero. Sebastian will share his intimate knowledge of the zapateo (tap dance) tradition and delve into how the cajon is an extension of that form of movement. He will offer practical applications and lots of inspiring ideas to get you and your students excited about the magical box drum from Perú!

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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In this workshop teachers will learn how to embed social and emotional learning into their instruction through musical activities that affirm the brilliance of our students. Come and learn creative teaching strategies and lessons that use the Orff process while promoting the five core components of Social Emotional Learning (CASEL): self awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, relationship skills and social awareness. Teachers will learn a new dance, songs, book recommendations, and a rhythm stick routine. Finish the school year strong with meaningful lessons that teach so much more than MUSIC. 

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Welcome the spring as we use children’s literature to inspire and invigorate your music class.  Whether you are teaching in-person, virtually, or hybrid, Shoshanah will share ideas you can use by taking elemental music ideas such as using rhythmic building bricks, elemental forms, improvisation, rhythmic movement, and more to enhance stories and engage students.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Música es Vida! From education to social gatherings to celebrations, music and dance play an active role in the Dominican Republic. Whatever the current “new normal” may be, students still depend on their teachers to create conditions to engage in joyful learning experiences. This session seeks to provide music teachers with brief, engaging activities you can adapt in your music classroom, virtually or in-person. Bring your WEPA and get caught up in the rhythms, melodies, and flavor of the rich and diverse island of the Dominican Republic.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Technology has become a necessity in our classrooms. Despite the bewildering array of apps available to us, all that may be required are just one or two purposefully selected apps to create engaging lessons for joyful music making, to stay connected with our students and to maintain our relationships with them.  Students can continue to explore, create, improvise, compose and collaborate while staying connected through digital devices.

In this webinar, Kate Bright and and Manju Durairaj demonstrate a few applications for engaging music making for teaching in a pandemic, be it remote, in- person or hybrid. They showcase various lessons and activities that they are using in their programs to continue process teaching in these difficult times.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Brent Geyer and BethAnn Hepburn will explore engaging lessons for elemental music-making with a new virtual blues scale xylophone created by Brent. We will keep the rhythm swinging with improvisation using the book, Rap a Tap Tap, by Leo and Diane Dillon. Each lesson will explore how rhymes can be used as the inspiration for melodic and rhythmic compositions and improvisation suitable for grades 1-5.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Connect your students’ home and school musical traditions and encourage family involvement by conducting a folk song collection in your own music classroom!

Christa Jones shares her experience with conducting a school-wide folk song collection and creating a school songbook that celebrates her students’ various backgrounds and musical traditions. Students and music educators alike benefit from a culturally responsive classroom environment that affirms students’ backgrounds and links students’ home and school communities. Learn how to conduct a song collection at your own school, explore issues of cultural responsiveness, and discuss how to respectfully integrate music of student cultures into the Orff Schulwerk music classroom.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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No singing, no shared instruments, no teaching in the music classroom.

Do you find yourself frustrated by the negatives of teaching music in a pandemic? Are you struggling to fulfill state and national standards without singing or playing instruments? Are you exhausted and looking for new ideas?

Dr. Phil Wilson and Dr. Rob Lyda developed standards-based lessons that have worked in their classrooms and kept students safe during COVID-19. They will share ideas that are both low and high tech and can be accomplished in a variety of instructional situations. Join us as we explore teaching music during a world of COVID “NOs”.

In addition to the materials, all registrants will be provided access to a recording of the workshop so that you can watch live or as your schedule allows.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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This workshop will explore ways to utilize storytelling with musical elements to support learning in the music classroom and in the general elementary music classroom. In this lively webinar, you’ll experience the joy of storytelling first hand as Jocelyn & Robert Dabney and Roger Sams share stories from diverse cultures with musical elements embedded in them and coach you on the basic principles of storytelling.

In addition to the materials, all registrants will be provided access to a recording of the workshop so that you can watch live or as your schedule allows.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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This series focuses on culturally responsive teaching, multiculturalism and social justice education in the general music classroom. Students can collaborate and create together, using protocols defined for culturally responsive classrooms. Through movement, body percussion, songs, chants, and games, Manju models culturally responsive teaching as best practice, especially in virtual, in-person, or hybrid teaching situations.

In addition to the materials, all registrants will be provided access to a recording of the workshop so that you can watch live or as your schedule allows.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Every year in his classroom Franklin Willis looked forward to producing a Black History Month Program that highlighted music, poetry, art, books, and culture of African Americans. In this session he will share some of those classroom activities and ideas to encourage you to teach the rich cultural heritage of African Americans. Music teachers will leave this session with an enlightened perspective on how to plan, produce, and perform a Black History Month Program.

In addition to the materials, all registrants will be provided access to a recording of the workshop so that you can watch live or as your schedule allows.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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This timely, pre-recorded webinar features Kanisha Howard, Roger Sams, Gerard Stokes, and David Thaxton. Includes right-now lessons for supporting teachers and students in musical co-creation within a diversity of settings. Together we use the folk song Michael Finnegan as a springboard for music and movement learning activities that explore possibilities for active music making and creating today.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Educators will learn how to use Rap and Hip-Hop techniques to facilitate a positive classroom culture and empower youth to express themselves through Hip-Hop in a respectful and culturally appropriate way. Participants will experience four ready-to-use lessons with customizable Google Slides and resources that can be used for online, hybrid or in person learning.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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During this season of love and gratitude, we are so excited for this online workshop with Bev Willms Best and Roger Sams. They are including oodles of materials so that you’ll have everything you need to teach beautiful lessons for the next few weeks!

Bev’s original songs are based on three picture books that explore themes of love and gratitude. Her corresponding activities include art, movement, chanting, and percussion that all lend themselves to learning in person and online. She and Roger also discuss ways to support social emotional learning whether you’re in person or teaching from afar.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

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Roger Sams shares tried and true picture books that enhance music and movement learning and create a playful environment in your classroom, be it socially distanced in person or remote. He models lessons that include singing, chanting, movement accompanied by piano, rhythmic activities, and basic music literacy. Detailed lesson plans are included as well as ideas for how to modify the activities for diverse learning situations and contemporary challenges.

After watching the recording, a certificate of completion can be provided to participants who request one for 1.5 professional development hours.

Click here to learn more.

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Planning for Distance Learning in a School District

This free webinar was made possible by Studio 49 Orff Instruments

This summer Roger Sams partnered with a team of elementary music teachers in the Rockwood School District in St. Louis, Missouri to plan for the possibility of online learning in the coming school year.

During this webinar, Megan Meier, Coordinator of Fine Arts, and music teachers Rachel Puleo and Katie Brown will share how they approached this collaboration and the processes they used. They will also share some of the video that they created to support music teaching and distance learning in the coming year.

Megan Meier, Ed.S., has served as the Fine Arts Coordinator for the Rockwood School District in St. Louis, MO since 2015.  In her role, she oversees the implementation of art, music, and theatre curriculum in the district’s thirty-one K-12 schools.  She previously served Rockwood as the assistant principal at Westridge Elementary and as the music teacher at Kehrs Mill Elementary where she was selected as Teacher of the Year in 2012.  Beyond her work in Rockwood, Megan has served as a conductor for the St. Louis Children’s Choirs and as music director for multiple churches. Megan earned her B.A. and M.A. (GTRA) in Vocal Music from Truman State University, M.A. in Teaching from Lindenwood University, and Ed.S. in Educational Leadership from Webster University.  She is currently a doctoral candidate at Missouri Baptist University.  She holds Level 1 Orff certification and completed Level 1 of the Choral Music Experience.  Academic interests include equity in music education, arts integration, and social-emotional learning in the arts.  Personal interests include St. Louis Cardinals baseball, Broadway musicals, and spending time with her husband, Keith, and children, John, Liz, Norah, and Drew.

Rachel Puleo is a music specialist in the Rockwood School District, where she teaches K-5 general music and directs an extracurricular honor choir.  Rachel has held leadership roles in both the University City and Rockwood School Districts, through wiring curriculum  and presenting professional development.  Rachel holds a Bachelor’s degree in music education, a masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction, and additional coursework and training through educational technology and Google for Education.  She is a certified Orff-Schulwerk teacher. She received her Master level Orff Schulwerk certification from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2018.

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We are so excited to bring you this online retreat, which is being led by some of our favorite humans. Each of them brings unique perspectives, experiences, and modalities to this project. Together they are collaborating to co-create a unifying and nourishing experience meant to support you in preparation for the coming year. You use music, art & movement every day to nourish your students – let our team guide you on a journey to do the same for yourself. We invite you to set aside four days for spiritual refreshment through music, movement, and community.

Click here to learn more about this unique opportunity for personal and professional development.

You can also click the links below to hear from our instructors as they share their excitement about our upcoming retreat.

A personal message from Roger Sams

Aloha from K. Michelle Lewis

Garden greetings from David Thaxton

An invitation from Judy Barthwell

Greetings from Drue Bullington

An invitation from Beth Nelson

We hope you choose to join us July 27 – 30, 2020 to care for yourself so you are better prepared to care for your students and handle the uncertainties of the coming school year.

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Black Lives Matter, and “matter” is the minimum.
Black lives are worthy.
Black lives are beloved.
Black lives are needed.

USC football player Jay Urich

There is work to be done. We invite you to join us in listening to and learning from minoritized voices in order to better equip ourselves to make a positive contribution in this process.

WATCH

• Teach Us All (Netflix)
• When They See Us (Netflix)
• Selma (available to rent)
• The Hate U Give (Hulu/Cinemax)

READ

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
• Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education by Vicki R. Lind and Constance L. McKoy
• Music Education for Social Change; Constructing an Activist Music Education by Juliet Hess
• We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love

Click here for a list of Black-Owned independent bookstores to consider when ordering online.

LISTEN

• School Colors
• Teaching While White
• The Score: An Urban Music Education Podcast
• Code Switch
• 1619

RESOURCES

• Decolonizing the Music Room
• Woke Kindergarten
• Education for Liberation Network
• The American Kodaly Institute’s List of Problematic Songs
• The American Orff Schulwerk Association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DONATE

• Decolonizing the Music Room
• Woke Kindergarten
• Education for Liberation Network
• Click here for a list of organizations across the country that assist with bail funds for those arrested on the front lines of protests.

For a deeper dive, see this extensive list of resources on systemic racism.

At Teaching With Orff we are committed to showing up for music educators and supporting one another in our work. We are committed to uplift and support our colleagues, students, families, and communities. We are committed to listen, to learn, and to love.

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“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.” – Bryce W. Anderson

Free Webinar

Orff Online: Planning for Distance Learning in a School District with Roger Sams and educators from the Rockwood School District

Self Care

Tuesdays With TWO (Teaching With Orff) by Roger Sams and Michelle Marie

Self Care Tips for Quarantined Music Teachers by Crystal Pridmore and Zoe Kumagai

Distance Learning

Distance Learning Lessons with Mr. S by Matthew Stensrud (weekly Orff lessons)

Teaching With Technology by Amy Burns

Remote and E-Learning Activities by Aimee Curtis Pfitzner

Teaching Music Remotely by Sing to Kids

Ideas for Teaching Music Remotely by Karen Stafford

Music Teacher Resources for School Closures by Elizabeth Caldwell

Bridging the Gap: Teaching and Learning Music Online by NAfME and NAMM

Teaching Without Contact by American Orff-Schulwerk Assocation, Reverberations

MusicplayOnline – free student login now available

Technology

Purposeful Pathways PowerPoint Tutorial by Beth Ann Hepburn

5 Tips for your Virtual Music Lessons by Crystal Pridmore

5 Tech Tools You Should Consider by Midnight Music

Creating Virtual Music Classroom Content – A Quick Start Guide by Crystal Pridmore

Facebook Groups

Music Educators Creating Online Learning

E-Learning in Music Education

American Orff-Schulwerk Association Discussion Group

*Inclusion on this list does not represent endorsement.

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