2017-2018

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March 3, 2018 9:00—1:00 PM

Patrick Ware Read, Dance, Make Music

April 7, 2018 8:30—12:00 PM

Chapter Share & Garage Sale

September 23, 2017

9:00—1:00 PM

Christina Svec Partnership with SLAKE

Sequencing Improvisation Through Singing Voice

Development K-5

National American Orff-Schulwerk Association

$95

Membership Dues & Workshop Fees

Membership Dues: Workshop Fees: Local Chapter Dues—$25 Members—$30 National Membership Dues—$85 Non-Members—$55 *Access at: www.aosa.org* Students—FREE (with ID)

*Ask your district if they will pay for this professional development opportunity for you!*

St. Louis AOSA Officers

Executive Board: Members At Large: President: Stephanie Petry College Contact: Kim Warger Vice President: Randi Shanker Instrumentarium: Graeme Allen Treasurer: Stephanie Gummershimer Associate Treasurer: Julie Vahle Secretary: Stephanie Brueggeman Historian: Katie Hernandez Past President: Sheila Yoder-Baer Hospitality: Jennifer Lucas Web Master: Angie Kelton

Includes ALL Workshops & Local Chapter Dues

Location Carman Trails Elementary School

555 South Weidman Road Manchester, MO 63021

St. Louis AOSA Package Local Dues and ALL Workshops-$95 Payment for the package price is due by September 1, 2017

Please direct any questions to: stlaosa@gmail.com

August 26, 2017 8:30—1:00 PM

Aimee C. Pfitzner Hands to Hands: Clapping

Songs, Games, and Dances from

Around the World

October 21, 2017 9:00—1:00 PM

Will Schmid World Music Drumming:

Great Orff Partner

Professional Development St. Louis AOSA would like to invite you to attend some of the best professional development avail-able to music educators in the St. Louis area. Get together with other music educators in the area with a prestigious presenter to teach learning strategies, processing, and sequencing all through the Orff method. We are known to Sing, Say, Dance, and Play so come in comfortable clothing and ready to move! As a chapter we offer Professional Development Certificates and College Credit for attending our workshops. Once you become a member, you will receive Membership Emails that include digital workshop notes, exclusive music teacher events, and notification of other professional opportunities.

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2017-2018 WORKSHOPS SERIES

August 26, 2017 8:30—1:00 PM

Aimee Curtis Pfitzner

Hands to Hands: Clapping Songs, Games, and Dances from Around the World

Get ready to sing, move, clap, and play in this high energy, hands on workshop that will leave you smiling (and maybe a little out of breath)! Songs, games, and dances will be from many cultures and regions of the world, including India, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, and the Caribbean! This is a great workshop if you do not have a lot of instruments! Aimme Curtis Pfitzner holds a B. A. from University of Maine, and a M. A. from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She also has her Master’s Level Certification in Orff Schulwerk from University of Memphis. Pfitzner’s publications include: Hand Clapping Songs and Games from Around the World, Hand Clapping Songs from the USA and Canada, and Author of http://ofortunaorff.blogspot.com music blog. She currently is the Lower School Music Director at Cannon School with 23 years of experience.

September 23, 2017 9:00—1:00 PM

Christina Svec

Sequencing Improvisation Through Singing Voice Development K-5 Partnership with SLAKE

Developing an in-tune singing voice has important foundations in early childhood context, and can be sequenced through 5th grade. Vocal development begins with experiencing how the voice works in all of its ranges. Tonal pattern instruction can be applied to familiar and unfamiliar literature in order to build a tonal vocabulary related to song literature. Once they have a vocabulary, they can improvise! Svec will briefly discuss the research behind singing voice development, demonstrate engaging vocal exploration and melodic improvisation activities, and provide classroom examples through video footage of young children. The handout will include familiar and unfamiliar literature with specific sequences for teaching voice development and improvisatory skills. Dr. Christina L. Svec holds a B. A. from University of North Texas, M. A. from Michigan State University, and a Ph. D. from University of North Texas. She is certified in Kodály Levels and Music Learning Theory. Christina has multiple published articles and has presented at many conferences. Dr. Svec is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Iowa State University in Ames, IA and currently teaches at Iowa State University Lab School and conducts the Ames Children’s Choir.

St. Louis AOSA Announcements We are so excited for our line up of presenters for wonderful professional development this year! We have added a couple new things this coming series such as a Winter Orff Pop Up and a Music Education Garage Sale in April. More information of these events will be provided at our Workshops, Chapter Facebook Page, and Membership Emails. STL AOSA is continuing our online registration and payment through PayPal this year. We offer a St. Louis AOSA Package deal of $95 that covers all 5 professional workshops as well as local membership dues; with a due date of payment thru September 1, 2017. Proof of payment or proof of your district’s pending payment is required by the deadline to lock in the package price. All payments made after September 1st will be the individual workshop price before each workshop. Cash and Checks are still accepted at the workshop site. For quicker registration, please have your membership form and payment submitted prior to the first workshop. We can’t wait to see you during our 2017-18 STL AOSA Workshop Series! The Executive Board works hard to provide Music Educators with quality professional development and we are proud of the line up this year and encourage you to invite someone new to the August workshop so they can experience Orff and get the best deal with our St. Louis AOSA Package!

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2017-2018 WORKSHOPS SERIES

Will Schmid

World Music Drumming: Great Orff Partner

A fun, active exploration of the ways in which Orff and World Music Drumming partner to bring exciting cross-cultural dimensions to your classes. We will drum, sing, play xylophones, recorders, guitars, and ukuleles, and move to the music of West Africa and the Caribbean as well as other parts of the world. Find out why the World Music Drumming curriculum is now in over 20,000 schools worldwide. Will Schmid holds a B.A. from Luther College and a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. His public school teaching included general music, choral music and band, and he taught at Winona Sate University, the University of Kansas, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Will is a past-president of the National Association for Music Education (formerly MENC). Schmid is a program author for Pearson’s Silver Burdett Making Music series (2008). He is the principal author of the world’s #1 selling Hal Leonard Guitar Method and over one hundred other books/ folios/CDs/DVDs for drumming, guitar, banjo, strings, and choral. He has given workshops throughout the United States and in Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Europe. Dr. Schmid launched the World Music Drumming curriculum (included in Drumming Units of Making Music grades 6-8) which brings the excitement of African and Latin drumming and singing to schools throughout the United States.

March 3, 2018 9:00—1:00 PM

Patrick Ware

Read, Dance, Make Music

Everyone loves a good story. Every child has a story to tell. Together we will discover the opportunity for magical music making in picture books. Appropriate and engaging for all ages; come play with us as we further our reading comprehension and enhance our musicality through children’s literature. Dr. Patrick Ware holds a B. A. from Westfield State College, M. S. from Radford University, and a Ph. D. from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. Patrick has 20 years of teaching experience in the classroom and is currently teaching at Fannie W. Fitzgerald Elementary School in Experience Prince William County Public Schools. He is also a Level 1 and Movement Instructor for Orff Levels. Patrick has presented at state and national conferences and has multiple published works including; Here’s Two – A Jazz collection for the Orff Classroom Grades 4-8 and more!

April 7, 2018 8:30—12:00 PM

STL AOSA Chapter Share

Also featuring our 1st Music Education Garage Sale!

To wrap up our wonderful 2017-2018 Workshop Series we will have one of our members present to the chapter as well as conduct our end of your chapter meeting. This year we will be holding a Music Education Garage Sale! We are reaching out to our retired music teachers who would like to sell items at this Garage Sale. Being a member, you will have first dibs. But we are also opening this Garage Sale to the public. There will be more information on this as it gets closer. We will communicate this through our Workshops, Chapter Facebook Page, and Membership Emails. Stay tuned!

October 21, 2017 9:00—1:00 PM