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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 workshop of the 2025-2026 Season! 
Date: December 6, 2025
Time: 9:00 am to 1:30 pm Clinician: Chapter Share Workshop: Session Details Coming Soon Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to see our President's Message for the 2025-2026 Season!
Come join us for a year of creative music making!
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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 $97.00 Three-Year Regular Membership $266.00 Student Membership + Orff Echo $31.00 Online Student Membership FREE Retired Membership $66.00 |
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.
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Season Package Regular Registration:
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Pre-Registration Requirements
These requirements only apply to pre-registration. Pre-registration begins on July 1 and ends on September 1. After pre-registration please follow the requirements under Season Package Regular Registration (see above).
- Complete registration - A complete registration is a completed registration form plus payment. For the payment to be complete, the payment must be in the treasurer's hands.
- Payment may be made with a check or with PayPal.
- A PayPal payment must be made immediately after the registration form is completed.
- All PayPal payments must be dated on or before 9/1. If payment is made after 9/1 you must pay the regular registration price. The difference between the two prices is $10. This additional payment must be made by check made out to NE/AOSA within two weeks or at the first workshop whichever is sooner.
- A check payment generally must be made within two weeks of completing the registration form.
- The envelope containing the check must be postmarked 9/1 or earlier. For those of you that register later in the pre-registration period, your check delivery time will be shorter than two weeks.
- If any envelopes are received and postmarked after 9/1 you must pay the regular registration price. The difference between the two prices is $10. This additional payment must be made by check made out to NE/AOSA within two weeks or at the first workshop whichever is sooner.
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.