Workshops
Workshops 2025-2026
We’d love to see you at any of our yearly workshops so that we can share our love of the Orff approach and help you gain ideas to use in your classroom!
What to expect at Our Workshops
Workshop participants do not need to be trained in the Orff Schulwerk approach in order to attend – in fact, we love to introduce new people to the magic of Orff! Music teachers and other educators are welcome to attend our workshops, and need not become members of Atlanta Orff or AOSA in order to participate. Pre-registration is not necessary.
Preparing for your workshop:
Expect to move, sing, create, and play! You’ll be actively exploring elements of Orff pedagogy, experimenting with composition and improvisation processes, and generating practical ideas for your classroom. Printed workshop notes are included with each session – participants are welcome to jot down notes of their own, but Orff Schulwerk is best experienced through immersion in the process
Wear comfortable clothes and shoes that allow you to move about freely (some participants choose to work barefoot or in dance shoes). Bring along your soprano recorder if you have one. To accommodate participants with allergies, we ask that you refrain from strong fragrances. Most of our workshops are from 9:00 to 1:00. Snacks are provided!
Fees, Registration, and Times
- $120 for full workshop series for AOSA members
- $140 for full workshop series for non-AOSA members
- $45 for individual workshops (both in person and virtual)
- $40 for Local Membership and full workshop series for retired teachers
- Workshops are free for full-time undergraduate students, student teachers, and first year teachers.
To register for the workshop series and to become a member, go to Membership.
To register for individual workshops, scroll down and click the link under the workshop you wish to register for.
Virtual Option:
This year we are also offering a virtual option! All of our workshops will be recorded and anyone registered will have access to that workshop’s recording! If you would like to purchase the virtual option for an individual workshop, scroll below to the workshop you would like the recording for and register for that workshop. If you purchased the full workshop series, you do not need to do any additional registration.
Broken Stuff Breakfast
August 23, 2025 | Beaver Ridge Elementary | 9am-12pm
Got broken instruments? Aren’t sure exactly how to fix them? Join us for our Broken Stuff Breakfast! Bring your instruments in need of repair and join us for some food, fun, fellowship, and instrument fixin’!
Don’t have broken instruments, but you know how to fix them? Just want to come for the fellowship, fun, and food? That’s fine, too! Everyone is welcome! The cost to attend is $15. That gets you a light breakfast and instruments that are like new! You’re more than welcome to bring a dish to share, too! (Look for a sign up genius closer to the date.)
Fill out the form here to let us know you’re coming, what instruments you’re planning to bring, and what parts you’ll need.
Scott Roether
Sifting Through the Schulwerk: Exploring the Orff/Keetman Primary Sources
September 13, 2025 | Powers Ferry Elementary | 9am-1pm
This workshop will explore the various primary resources within Orff Schulwerk. Though seemingly unapproachable to some at first glance, there is an incredible wealth of opportunity contained in these resources. Through a series of process-based activities, participants will further discover the potential contained in using Orff and Keetman’s primary resources. The workshop will explore applications for pre-primary through middle school classrooms, with a special focus on finding opportunities for the inclusion of each activity in your grade level curricula.
Scott Roether teaches music and movement at University School in Cleveland, Ohio where he works with boys ages four through ten. Previously, he worked as an arts integration specialist and public school teacher. He has completed Levels training, as well as Master Classes, Curriculum Development, and the International Summer Course at the Orff-Institut. In addition to his previous training in Orff Schulwerk, Scott completed his Master’s degree in Music Education with a concentration in Orff Schulwerk from the University of St. Thomas. A frequent presenter both locally and nationally, he serves the Greater Cleveland Orff Chapter as the Vice President and Program Chair.
If you paid for the entire workshop series, no need to register for each individual workshop.
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Kristine Wolfe
The Joy of Active Music Making Create Your Own Magic
October 25, 2025 | Chattahoochee Elementary | 9am-1pm
Join us as we sing, speak, move, play AND create joyful music! Whether it’s folk dancing or creative movement, active music making is always a hit!! Dress comfortably, as this session will literally make your heart jump for joy as we visit a few favorites and add a few twists! This workshop will also include improvisation techniques for beginners and beyond! You will leave with ideas to use with your students, as well some tools for you to create YOUR own magic!
Kristine Wolfe has been teaching PreK-6 Music & Band in the Papillion – La Vista (NE) Community Schools for over 20 years. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Iowa State University and a Master of Music from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. In addition to her Kodaly training, Kristine is a Level I & II Orff Schulwerk Instructor. She currently serves on the AOSA Fund Development Subcommittee and is the Program Chair for the Great Plains Orff Chapter. In her free time, Kristine enjoys playing Oboe in the Intergeneration Orchestra of Omaha, as well as Recorder with The Jewel Tones.
If you paid for the entire workshop series, no need to register for each individual workshop.
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Chapter Share
January 24, 2026 | Huntley Hills Elementary | 9am-1pm
Members who attended the November Professional Development Conference in Lexington, KY will share some of their favorite activities and ideas from conference sessions. This workshop is free for all to attend!
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Ani Silva-Berrios
!Vamos a jugar!
March 14, 2026 | Beaver Ridge Elementary | 9am-1pm
¡Vamos a jugar with different Latin American music genres, songs, and games! We’ll discover, explore, and experience through playful twists while singing, saying, playing, moving, and creating. These activities and lesson ideas are flexible and can be easily adapted with many possibilities into any curriculum, while providing and bringing diversity into your music repertoire.
Ani Silva-Berrios is currently teaching K-5th grade general music in Virginia. Previously, Mrs.Silva-Berrios taught K-6th grade general music, along with 5th and 6th grade choir in Kansas, and K-5th grade general music in Florida. Outside the elementary classroom, she has taught undergraduate and graduate level elementary music methods courses at Missouri Western University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, and Vandercook College. Ani is an active presenter and clinician having presented for the American Orff Schülwerk Association, Ohio Music Educators Association Conference, Virginia Music Educators Association Conference, Florida Music Educators Association Conference, Kansas Music Educators Association Conference, local Orff Schülwerk chapters and other organizations. She is the recently published author of “¡Vamos a jugar!”, an elementary music teacher resource with songs, movement activities, and children’s literature based on different Latin American songs and musical genres for the K-5th general music classroom. Her passion and dedication for teaching music is evident through the appreciation and love of music shown by her students. Ani earned bachelor’s degrees in Music Education and Flute Performance from the University of Central Florida, and a master’s degree in Music Education with an emphasis in the Kodály method from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT. While at Hartt, she earned all levels of Kodály Certifications with John Feierabend, as well as “First Steps in Music” and “Conversational Solfege” certifications. Mrs. Silva-Berrios also completed her Orff Schülwerk certification at the University of Memphis, and an Orff masterclass level course. Along with Orff and Kodály certifications, she completed a World Drumming Level 1 certification. As such, Ani embraces a joyful and playful philosophy that incorporates as many diverse resources, to create an inclusive, purposeful, and unique musical experience! When she is not teaching she enjoys crafts, dancing, traveling and spending time with her husband, Juan Berrios, a professional musician and educator.
If you paid for the entire workshop series, no need to register for each individual workshop.
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Karen Medley
Music is the Language of Awesome: A Few of Our Favorite Things!
April 25, 2026 | Chattahoochee Elementary | 9am-1pm
This workshop focuses on creative music and movement activities for preschool, primary and intermediate children. Our favorites! Developed by the kids! Lessons they want to come back to again and again! Music and movement foster a sense of wonder and joy in, creating a safe space for early learners to explore, to play, and to understand as they give themselves to new adventures. Come join us for a day of looking at the world around us through children’s eyes.
Karen Medley has over 40 years’ experience teaching children in public elementary school music programs in the Pentucket Regional School District (MA), Clark County Schools (Las Vegas, NV), Memphis City Schools, and Rochester City Schools (NY). She earned a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music with a Concentration in Orff Studies from the University of Memphis where she also completed her Orff Teacher Education Levels I-III and Master Class.
Presenter at more than a dozen AOSA National Conferences, Karen is a frequent presenter for workshops, residencies, in-services and teacher education courses across the United States, including Hawai’i and Alaska. In addition to Nazareth University, Karen teaches in summer teacher-education programs through the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) and the University of Alaska (Anchorage). Karen has taught many courses and workshops introducing classroom and preschool teachers to Orff-Schulwerk. In 1983 and again in 1995 she was a guest lecturer in New Zealand, presenting courses and workshops through the Teacher’s College of Auckland University and throughout the country.
Karen has directed several children’s choruses whose performances include singing Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, opening the National Blues Awards, performing at the 1989 AOSA National Conference in Atlanta, and singing Carmina Burana and The Nutcracker with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. A recipient of the Rotary Award for Teacher Excellence in Memphis City Schools, the Homegrown Heroes award, Clark County Schools, and the Sachem Award from Pentucket Regional Schools. Karen is a contributing writer for Music and You (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill), and her arrangements have been featured in The World Sings: International Folk Songs (Memphis Musicraft Pub.) and Las Vegas Writes III.
Karen served on the AOSA National Board of Trustees for more than thirteen years as Regional Representative for two terms, as Chair of the Post Level III Committee, as a member of the Guidelines Revision Committee, and as National Conference Chairperson for four AOSA National Conferences.
If you paid for the entire workshop series, no need to register for each individual workshop.
Only click below to register if you are registering and paying for an individual workshop.