JOSH SOUTHARD
Saturday, August 25th, 2018       

Metcalf School,
ISU campus, Normal
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
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It’s All About the Process: Keetman’s Rhythmic Building Bricks and Beyond
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Using the elemental rhythmic bulding bricks, we will explore improvisation and compostition in the classroom. Diving into pieces and examples from the Music for Children volumes and supplements, as well as children’s literature, participants will learn how to play, improvise, create, and expand on them. Come ready to Sing, Dance, Play, Move, and CREATE!


Josh Southard is the Music Specialist at Smoky Row Elementary School in Carmel, IN. There he teaches K-5 music, as well as a 5th grade Orff Ensemble. He has completed all three levels of Orff-Schulwerk certification, as well as Orff Curriculum and Composition at Anderson University. He served as the Indiana Orff Schulwerk Association’s President from 2010-2014, and in 2011, he was appointed to the American Orff Schulwerk Association’s Historical Committee, where he served as the Chairperson of the committee from 2014-2017. Recently, he was elected to the National Board of Trustees of the American Orff Schulwerk Association, serving as the Regional VI Representative for Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, W. Virginia, Illinois, and Michigan.
Josh is a featured presenter at Orff workshops around the country, state and national conferences, and at Butler University and Anderson University for music education NAfME meetings. In the fall of 2010, his article “The Importance of the Volumes” was published in the American Orff Schulwerk Association’s national publication, the Orff Echo. He now teaches Level I Orff Certification courses in Gwinnett County in Atlanta, GA, DePaul University in Chicago, IL, and Anderson University in Anderson, IN. 
 

JEAN HERSEY
Saturday, October 13th 2018

​Metcalf School,
ISU campus, Normal
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Oh, The Places They’ll Go! Creating Self Directed Learners through the Schulwerk

Explore ways to engage students in learning through active music making, student choice, higher level questioning, and self and peer assessment. Dress comfortably and bring a soprano recorder. Activities will include lessons appropriate for 1st-6th grade

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Jean Hersey is a National Board certified teacher at Deer Path Middle School in Lake Forest, IL, where she has worked for the past 14 years. She teaches fifth and sixth grade general music. In 2012, she won the district’s Innovative Practice Award for her Spring General Music Show, which incorporated music, art, drama, and social studies curricula, and reflected the Medieval and Renaissance time periods. Hersey is also Level I Pedagogy and Movement instructor at VanderCook College of Music

MONA MANN
Saturday, February 23rd 2018

Milliken University
Perkinson Center
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Orff-Schulwerk Round the School Year
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 Sing, play, and move through the school year with a variety of Orff-Schulwerk based lessons for your classroom.  We will have fun playing recorders, composing, and working in the meter of five as we travel the calendar from September to June.


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Mona Mann holds a degree in Flute and French from Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), a performance degree from the Conservatoire in Strasbourg, France, and a Master’s in Music Education from Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). She currently teaches 5th and 6th grade general music in River Forest, IL, as well as Levels I, II and III recorder at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.  She has also taught recorder at the Los Angeles Orff Chapter summer course (2018), and presented for the Fox Valley Orff Chapter, as well as teaching movement for the JEM Festival in Northern Illinois (2009 to the present).

HOI  MUSIC FESTIVAL

Saturday, May 11th 2019
ISU Center for the Performing Arts.
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Each year, our chapter members invite over 100 students to participate in a morning of Orff-inspired workshops followed by a performance for parents at the Illinois State University Center for the Performing Arts.