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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 2024-2025 Season! Please join us for the upcoming 2025-2026 Season! 
Date: September 6, 2025
Time: 9:00 am to 1:30 pm Clinician: Patrick Ware Workshop: It Starts With a Story Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to see our President's Message for the 2025-2026 Season!
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Registration for the upcoming 2025-2026 Season is officially open!
To register, please scroll to "Why should you become a member of the NE/AOSA Family?"
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!
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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
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Please consider becoming a national AOSA member.
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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
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Welcome From the NE/AOSA President:
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Salutations and Greetings NE/AOSA Members and Friends,
Welcome to the 2025-2026 workshop season for the New England Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association! NE/AOSA has an incredible line-up of Orff Schulwerk practitioners looking to share their knowledge and expertise with you. My hope is that through this year’s professional development experiences, that you find meaningful ideas to continue to guide your personal instruction.
The first workshop of our season will have you moving, creating, and recorder playing and will be led by Dr. Patrick Ware. Our second workshop will feature David Row of Making Moments Matter, where he will share his ideas on playing with speech, poetry, and picture books to create some incredible lessons. The third workshop will be our annual chapter share. This workshop features the brilliance of our own chapter members to lead our session. Maybe this year it will be you? In February, Tyler Swick will virtually guide us into creating our own play along videos for our students. He is well known in the music education community for his boomwhacker play alongs. Manju Duairaj, AOSA’s Vice President of DEIA, will share musiking ideas for creation and culture building in your classrooms. Our season ends with Drue Bullington guiding us through active music making amongst our chapter and easily implementable in your classrooms.
The 2025-2026 season will definitely have you embodying the schulwerk through its tenets of sing, say, move, play, and create! Our family of child centered creative music and movement educators is always looking to grow. Consider sharing a workshop experience by bringing a guest to a workshop. Maybe there is a friend, student teacher, colleague, or even an administrator that would appreciate a moment in this joyous space.
Musically Yours,
Gerard Stokes
NE/AOSA President
Welcome to the 2025-2026 workshop season for the New England Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association! NE/AOSA has an incredible line-up of Orff Schulwerk practitioners looking to share their knowledge and expertise with you. My hope is that through this year’s professional development experiences, that you find meaningful ideas to continue to guide your personal instruction.
The first workshop of our season will have you moving, creating, and recorder playing and will be led by Dr. Patrick Ware. Our second workshop will feature David Row of Making Moments Matter, where he will share his ideas on playing with speech, poetry, and picture books to create some incredible lessons. The third workshop will be our annual chapter share. This workshop features the brilliance of our own chapter members to lead our session. Maybe this year it will be you? In February, Tyler Swick will virtually guide us into creating our own play along videos for our students. He is well known in the music education community for his boomwhacker play alongs. Manju Duairaj, AOSA’s Vice President of DEIA, will share musiking ideas for creation and culture building in your classrooms. Our season ends with Drue Bullington guiding us through active music making amongst our chapter and easily implementable in your classrooms.
The 2025-2026 season will definitely have you embodying the schulwerk through its tenets of sing, say, move, play, and create! Our family of child centered creative music and movement educators is always looking to grow. Consider sharing a workshop experience by bringing a guest to a workshop. Maybe there is a friend, student teacher, colleague, or even an administrator that would appreciate a moment in this joyous space.
Musically Yours,
Gerard Stokes
NE/AOSA President
Registration for the 2025-2026 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.