American Orff-Schulwerk Association

Sensory Room
2025-11-20 08:00 - 09:15, 2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00 (America/Detroit)
*Not a session* Visit this room if you need a calm space to decompress.

Stringing Everything Together
2025-11-20 08:00 - 09:15, 2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00
This is not a sit and strum workshop. Move, explore, play, and imagine the possibilities of the ukulele as an elemental instrument. Download session notes

Threads of Connection
2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00
Explore your inner landscape through creative movement. Discover and strengthen the invisible bonds that connect you to yourself and to others

Loving the Littles-Imagination at Play - No Repeat
2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00
Explore, create and experience how to engage the littlest learners through games, manipulatives, literature, non-traditional instruments and rhythmic building blocks. Download session notes

Back to Basics - Voice and Body Are All You Need - No Repeat
2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00
Explore and create dynamic lessons with the body and voice as the primary instruments. Experience joyful play in a learning community. Download session notes

Singing Expressively Using Laban’s Movement Efforts Actions - No Repeat
2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00
Explore how using Laban’s Movement Effort Actions during choral rehearsals can enhance the expressiveness of your choir’s performances. Download session notes

Drumming Basics, World Rhythms & Classroom Management
2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00
Explore drumming fundamentals, world rhythms, and brain-based classroom management strategies to create dynamic, inclusive, and engaging music-learning environments. Download session notes

Discovering Orff Schulwerk, Part 2 - Sign up for both sessions
2025-11-20 09:45 - 11:00
What is Orff Schulwerk? Find out through fun, active music-making activities! No experience needed. Please sign up for both sessions. Download session notes

Marketplace Open
2025-11-20 11:00 - 15:00
Visit our exhibitors for the latest products and information. View Marketplace exhibitor map

Writing for AOSA Lunch & Learn
2025-11-20 11:10 - 11:45, 2025-11-20 11:50 - 12:25
Craft an article with step-by-step guidelines from Echo and Reverberations editors. Includes writing time and tailored feedback to get you off to a strong start!

Swing, Swang, Swung, BAM! - No Repeat
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45
Explore rhythms, melodies, and improvisational elements of Black American Music through speech, song and movement. Learn a jazz poem to gain fluency with the swing feel.

Take a Look, In a Book
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45
Use a children’s book to create an experience, together! Bring your Volumes and other resources as tools to use IN SESSION. Level I recommended. Download session notes

Harmonious Classrooms for Joyful Learning - No Repeat
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45
Explore practical classroom management and SEL techniques for trauma-informed music classrooms to reduce teacher stress and increase joy. Download session notes

Dramatic Play & Imaginative Music - No Repeat
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45
Embrace your inner child to explore the myriad of ways in which dramatic play can lead to joyful music learning. Download session notes

Echoes of Nature from Latin American Culture - No Repeat
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45
Intercultural experience with natural materials connecting the significance between nature and music of the Latin American communities. Download session notes

Creative Movement Storytelling
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
Create a movement story using Mad Libs writing prompts and a looping Möbius strip. Learn a Möbius strip circle dance. Download session notes

You Can Say It, You Can Play It!
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
Jump into the drum circle to explore your rhythmic teaching skills. If you can say it, you can play it! Download session notes

Exploring Rhythm with the Four Active Approaches, Part 1 - Sign up for both sessions
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:45
This session sponsored by the Alliance for Active Music Making explores rhythmic learning through the lens of four active approaches to musical engagement. Download session notes

Going Off Book - No Repeat
2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
How do you plan a beginning but then let your lesson unfold as you go? Problem-solve obstacles to student creation. Download session notes

Pliable Process Adapting for All - No Repeat
2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
Discover and experience supports for special education students to be successful by modifying instruments, orchestrations, and the use of technology. Download session notes

Rhythm & Rhyme - Explore Rhythms Using Children's Literature - No Repeat
2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
Learn how to introduce and explore rhythms using children’s literature while singing, moving, composing, and playing! Download session notes

Arranging Success: The Orff-Inspired Chorus - No Repeat
2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
Learn Orff Schulwerk based strategies for improving ensemble skills in chorus. Create an arrangement of a folk song to use with your choral group. Download session notes

Exploring with Style, Hairstyle! - No Repeat
2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
Use diverse children’s literature, original speech, and inspiration from the volumes to explore human connections through hair! Download session notes

Exploring Rhythm with the Four Active Approaches, Part 2 - Sign up for both sessions
2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30

Advisory Board - No Repeat
2025-11-20 14:15 - 15:30
This meeting is for elected chapter officers and begins at 2:00 pm. Learn about how AOSA can support your chapter and network with other leaders.
