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***Please note: ALL workshops are held at
​Joseph Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, MA
Please click on the link above for directions.​

Thank you for a wonderful first half of the 2024-2025 Season!

Please join us for the 2024-2025 Season! Our next clinicians are some of our own NE/AOSA members!
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​Date: April 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 am to 1:30 pm
​Clinician: Chris Judah-Lauder
Workshop: The Joys of Middle School Music
Come join us for a year of creative music making!

Please click here for more details!
Registration for the upcoming ​2024-2025 Season is officially open!

To register, please scroll to "Why should you become a member of the NE/AOSA Family?"
  • Read the information under this heading.
  • Choose the registration option that best fits you under “Join our NE/AOSA Family”.
  • After you register please continue to scroll down on the front page and read the
    President’s message.
  • Questions? Please reach out to our Chapter President, Karen Medley.
​Please click here to donate to the New England chapter.
If the weather is bad, click the button below to see if the workshop has been cancelled before you leave home!

Why should you become a member of the NE/AOSA Family?

  • Your registration fee helps us to bring high quality professional development for music and movement educators throughout New England
  • ​We are delighted to announce that the Chapter awards a small number of scholarships to qualifying members for levels training and attending the National AOSA Conference each year. You must be a National AOSA Member to receive the National Conference scholarship.
  • NE/AOSA members who are also National AOSA members receive discounted pricing for membership and workshops.
  • Networking opportunities, fostering friendships and creating connections with other New England educators
  • Opportunities to earn Graduate Credit and/or PDPs
  • Opportunities to make music, create, improvise, collaborate and move with amazing fellow educators in an inclusive, supportive community
  • Notices of job vacancies
  • Advocacy opportunities​​
Please consider becoming a national AOSA member.
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​You may register for AOSA National Membership by clicking here.
Current ​National AOSA Dues

Regular Membership  $94.00
Three-Year Regular Membership  $244.00
Student Membership + Orff Echo  $30.00
Online Student Membership  FREE
Retired Membership  $64.00
Membership in AOSA gives members web access to the AOSA Resource library of lessons, videos, and articles. AOSA members will have the opportunity to receive professional development, including the opportunity to attend the national conference. AOSA members also have access to several grants and scholarships, networking opportunities, mentorship programs, and professional publications. 

Join Our NE/AOSA Family

​Please click on the titles below to be taken to the appropriate registration page or form.
Season Package Regular Registration:
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  • This registration is for a full year (six workshops)
  • Those eligible: Educators and Retirees
  • PayPal Payment: Due at the time of registration
  • Check Payment: Due within two weeks of registration or at the workshop itself whichever is sooner.
  • It is more economical to purchase a season pass if you are attending more than two workshops.

Single Workshop Registration:
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  • This registration is for one workshop only
  • Those eligible: Educators
  • PayPal Payment: Due at the time of registration
  • Check Payment: Due within two weeks of registration or at the workshop itself whichever is sooner.
  • Individuals who are current season pass holders in another Region V chapter will receive special rates. Region V rates are not available for virtual workshops.
Season Package Student Registration:
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  • This registration is for a full year (six workshops) and is free.
  • Those eligible: Full-time undergraduate and graduate students
  • Students must present their student ID at the time of registration. If registering online, email a photo to [email protected]
  • Students must also be members of our parent organization, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA). Proof of membership must be presented at the time of registration. If registering online email a screenshot to [email protected]
  • Online Full-Time Student membership for AOSA is free. Go to www.aosa.org and click “Join” at the top right.

Guest Pass Registration:
  • This registration can only be used for one workshop.
  • Those eligible: Educators and retirees who are attending a New England Chapter workshop for the very first time.
  • Please note, you cannot access this registration in the drop down menu above.
Before joining please click here to check out our price list.

Welcome From the NE/AOSA President:

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Dear NE/AOSA members and friends,

Welcome to the 2024-2025 workshop season for the New England Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association! We are a professional community of creative music and movement teachers excited by lifelong learning and opportunities for collaboration with other teachers and students. On behalf of NE/AOSA, welcome! We are hoping to continue growing our chapter this year and we need your help in reaching out to colleagues and friends and inviting them to join us for an exciting year of professional growth opportunities! School is out for the summer and I hope this past year was full of “aha” moments for you and for your students - moments that inspired you and brought forward new questions and ideas for next year! Whether you are enjoying a relaxing summer of gardening at home, or traveling or taking classes to enrich your teaching skill, I hope this message finds you experiencing rejuvenating and reflective experiences with families and loved ones. As you begin to process last year and look forward to next year, NE/AOSA is here to help! This past year we invited members and friends of our chapter to reach out and let us know what YOU would find helpful to enrich your teaching and we listened. This year’s workshops reflect the interests and challenges our members identified and we are so excited to present our workshop series to you.

We welcome music/movement teachers, classroom teachers, early childhood teachers, church musicians, college students, administrators, professors, retired teachers and all who have an interest in fostering creative music-making and movement. We welcome YOU!!!

2024 – 2025 Workshop Clinicians

Engaging ideas for the beginning of the year; LIVE traditional dance, stories, and songs with the members of the New England Dancing Masters; creative music and movement in the inclusive classroom with a renowned teacher from the Orff Institute; favorite activities from our own New England teachers; Filipino folk songs for the music classroom; and the joys of middle school music - we are so pleased to offer workshops that reflect your priorities and interests! Please click on the links below to learn more about these stellar presenters!
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Graduate Credit

NE/AOSA is very proud to be able to offer one or two credit options for graduate credit as part of our workshop series! Please click on the Graduate Credit link to learn more about this new benefit for our Workshop Series attendees! This benefit has been a long time and a lot of work in coming and I would like to thank NE/AOSA member Gina Depaoli for organizing this for us!

Registration

Pre-registration is officially open for our 2024 – 2025 Workshop Season!!!
  • The pre-registration period runs from July 1st through September 1st, 2024. The cost of a Season Package during this period is $90 for AOSA members ($120 for non-AOSA members) + $5 PayPal processing fee, which gives you a $10 savings. Please note that the fee for retirees is $40 ($70 for non-AOSA members) + $5 PayPal processing fee whilst full-time students with a valid ID and (free) AOSA membership are free.
  • After Sept. 1st the cost of a Season Package will be $100 for AOSA members ($130 for non-AOSA members) + $5 PayPal processing fee.
  • To streamline the registration process, we strongly encourage our members to utilize the online registration and payment option. However, should the PayPal payment pose any difficulty for you, you still have the option to pay by check.

We are excited to announce that we now give a refund off of the NE/AOSA Season Package to all those who are also members of our parent organization, AOSA (proof of membership required). AOSA has an expansive collection of online resources and member benefits – please check them out at aosa.org.  The member side of the website contains valuable digital resources, videos, online classes, mentorship programs, and so much more. To become an AOSA member and to learn more about the benefits of membership, please follow this link within our new registration process. (AOSA National Membership)

We are also delighted to announce that you can choose to donate your $10 refund for being an AOSA member to our chapter’s Scholarship Fund. The Chapter awards a small number of scholarships to qualifying members for levels training and conferences each year. To learn more about scholarships please follow this link (NE/AOSA Scholarships).
 
All of the above registration details are available on our website
http://www.neaosa.org/join-neaosa.html

NE/AOSA Board News

It truly takes a village to make good things happen and we have extraordinary leaders who have stepped forward to help our chapter continue to grow. NE/AOSA would not be able to function without these dedicated volunteers whose behind-the-scenes work facilitates the smooth running of our chapter. We are grateful to Gerard Stokes for serving as Vice-President this next year and we welcome Natalie James onto the Board as a Member at Large.

You might be surprised at how many extraordinary humans help us to bring you world class professional development in NE/AOSA! Here are some of them:
  • Frank Casados (Equipment)
  • Sarah Casados (Social Media Coordinator)
  • Gina Depaoli (Professional Development Manager)
  • Jesse Francese (Webmaster)
  • Karen Graves (Registrar)
  • Barbara Kallas (Secretary)
  • John Kinney (Hospitality and Ukulele Jam Sessions!)
  • Dave Ruggiero (Treasurer)
  • Rongbing Shen (Historian)
  • Gerard Stokes (Vice-President)
  • Pam Yanco (Hospitality)
  • Members-at-Large: Natalie James, Linda Krov, Julie Law-Linck, Scott Tarantino

It takes many skills and areas of expertise to grow a chapter! It feels so gratifying to give of oneself to a worthy cause - please consider how you can contribute to NE/AOSA!

And, finally, thank YOU for becoming a part of our NE/AOSA family! Thank you for your interest in world class opportunities in creative music and movement experiences that will improve your teaching!

And with that our 2024-2025 season is officially open!
 
We think it’s the best value for quality professional development around as well as a wonderful way to connect with and learn from fellow music educators while growing your professional community! Please consider forwarding this to a friend or colleague who may be interested in joining our community of music educators.  Growing our chapter benefits all of us and helps us to continue bringing excellent clinicians to our area.

​​With all best wishes for a rejuvenating summer and an exciting school year,
Gratefully,
Karen Medley
President, NE/AOSA
[email protected]

Registration for the 2024-2025 Season Is Officially Open!

The American Orff-Schulwerk association strongly encourages members to be positive and discreet when discussing our organization, specific courses and/or teachers, and the Orff movement. The very nature of the Orff-Schulwerk philosophy embodies a broad spectrum of expressions exploring different paths to arrive at artistic and educational goals. Members are encouraged to recognize and remain open to varied approaches and to celebrate both our differences and our similarities.
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