Mattering in the Music Room: Incorporating SEL Practices in the Music Classroom
The Berkshire-Hudson Valley chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (BHVAOSA) is celebrating 50 years of providing high-quality professional development workshops for music educators. They serve the greater capital region of New York, as well as southern Vermont and western Massachusetts, and celebrate the approach of Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman and their belief that music education should be an active, joyful, and creative experience.
Sara Alipanah has been teaching general music, in public and private elementary school settings, for 16 years. She currently teaches infants to first graders in Washington, D.C. She has an MME from Elizabethtown College focusing on peacebuilding, social emotional learning, and ethnomusicology. She presented at the 2023 AOSA national conference, the 2024 MMEA conference in Baltimore, MD, and Mid-Atlantic and James River Orff chapter workshops. She has trained in First Steps in Music and has completed Orff Level One, World Music Drumming, and Drumming Up the Fun. Sara's podcast, Mattering in the Music Room, focuses on social emotional learning in the music classroom. In her spare time, she enjoys performing in local community theater, reading, and exploring parks and paths with her husband, Tim, and dog, Tyson.
Feel free to bring a recorder or ukulele with you.
FORMAT: In-person learning opportunity
DATE: Saturday, 4/5/25
TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Skano Elementary School, Shenendehowa CSD
FACILITATOR: Sara Alipanah
CONTACT: BHVAOSA
FEE: This workshop is free for BHVAOSA 2024-2025 members. The non-member educator fee is $45.00. The college student fee is $10.00.
CTLE HOURS: 4
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/5y4ef4jz