Orff-Schulwerk Summer Course

Basic Pedagogy

• Music for Children, Volume 1: Pentatonic (Murray Ed.) Schott
• The Elemental Style: A Handbook for Composers and Arrangers Part 1 (Cribari and Layton) 
• Elementaria (Keetman)

Recorder

• Soprano recorder: Yamaha YRS-302B or YRS-402B
• Recorder Routes Vol. 1 by Carol King
• The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book, Soprano Book 1 By Gerald Burakoff & William E. Hettrick
• Descants in Consort by Simpson
• Choose one: Duet Time, Book 1 (Beginner) or Book 2 (Intermediate or Advanced)

Movement

• Creative Dance for All Ages by Anne Green Gilbert
  • Recommended, not required

Basic Pedagogy

• Music for Children, Volume 1: Pentatonic (Murray Ed.) Schott
• Music for Children, Volume 2 Major: Drone Bass Triads (Murray Ed.) Schott
• Music for Children, Volume 4 Minor: Drone Bass Triads (Murray Ed.) Schott
• The Elemental Style: A Handbook for Composers and Arrangers Part 1 (Cribari and Layton) 
• Body Rondo Book (Solomon)
• Rhythmische Übung (Keetman)
• Erstes Spiel am Xylophon (Keetman) Schott
• Spielbuch für Xylophon Band 1, Volume 1 (Keetman) Schott

Recorder

• Soprano recorder: Yamaha YRS-302B or YRS-402B (probably already own)
• Alto recorder: Yamaha YRA-302B or YRA-402B
• Alto Antics by Robert A. Amchin
• Medieval to Modern Musical Cameos arr. Roger Buckton 

Optional but not required

• Alto for Two arr. Sonya Burakoff
• Recorder Routes by C. King
• Recorder Routes II by C. King

Movement

• Creative Dance for All Ages by Anne Green Gilbert

Ann Marie Morris, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, has been a music educator for 30 years. After graduating from Belmont University in Nashville, TN, her career has included teaching elementary and middle school general music in public and private schools across middle Tennessee. She was a 2023 recipient of the Country Music Association's Music Teacher of Excellence Award. She graduated from Lipscomb University in May 2024 with a master’s in educational leadership. She is currently the music specialist at Cole Elementary in Antioch, TN where she leads the Cole Honor Choir and Co-Directs the Percussion Ensemble. She has a thriving private voice and piano studio as well. She resides in Nashville, TN with her husband, four children and two rescue dogs.  

Franklin Willis is an Emmy Award–winning music educator and arts leader and the Director of Visual and Performing Arts for Metro Nashville Public Schools. A certified American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) educator, Franklin has completed all three levels of Orff training and is deeply committed to equipping teachers with practical, student-centered strategies grounded in the Orff Schulwerk approach.

Franklin began his career as an elementary music teacher, where he developed a passion for joyful, creative music-making that centers student voice. During his years in the classroom, he was named a three-time CMA Foundation Music Teacher of Excellence. He is also the author of the children’s books Edward’s Rhythm Sticks and More Than a Music Teacher, and has been a featured elementary music clinician across the country at colleges and universities, music education associations, and nonprofit organizations.

He has been a driving force in bringing Orff Levels training back to Nashville, working to expand access, build local capacity, and support a strong community of Orff practitioners. In addition to his district leadership, Franklin serves as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, where he prepares future music educators in culturally responsive and student-centered practice.

Tiffany Unarce Barry is a performer, educator, presenter, and published author in Northern California. A second-generation Filipino American, Tiffany has sung and played violin in ensembles all her life. She earned her B.A. in Vocal Performance at San José State University in 2001 and received a Single-Subject Teaching Credential in 2005. In 2008, she became Orff-certified through the San Francisco International Orff Course and in 2017, she earned her M.A. in Music Education at SJSU with a focus on providing more Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education to music teachers in the Bay Area.

Tiffany taught general music and a variety of instrumental and choral ensembles for 14 years at Cambrian School District in San Jose, CA, where she was voted “Teacher of the Year '' in both 2010 and 2017 for her expertise in arts integrations, STEAM education, and Project-Based Learning. She also received CMEA Bay Section’s Outstanding Classroom/General Music Educator Award for 2017-2018. Tiffany has held board positions for Resounding Achord Productions, Northern California’s American Orff Schulwerk Association Chapter, CMEA Bay Section, and the American Orff Schulwerk Association’s Board Restructuring Ad-Hoc Committee. She is currently serving on the board of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Museum in Stockton, CA and is also the founder of the Larry Itliong Way Project, a community initiative with the goal of renaming a downtown San Jose street after the Filipino American labor and civil rights leader, Larry Iltiong. In 2026, this latest work was recently awarded the “Champions for Change Award” at the African American Community Service Agency’s (AACSA) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ceremony.

Over the last ten years, Tiffany has published articles in the San José Mercury News, AOSA’s The Orff Echo & Reverberations, Buck Institute for Education’s PBL Blog, Teaching with Orff, and NAfME’s Teaching Music Magazine. In February 2021, she published her first music education resource book, Songs of the Sun: Filipino Folk Songs for the Musical Classroom.

Tiffany has presented Orff sessions and workshops nationally and is a Basic Orff Teacher Educator for Level 1. She is a lecturer, advisor, and supervisor in Music Education at SJSU and is also lead female vocalist for the Sacramento-based dance orchestra and swing band, Symphonia Phonotone.

Katie Traxler teaches K-5 music at Gateway Elementary, a public school in Madison, TN. In addition to teaching music, she leads a chorus, Orff and recorder ensembles, and piano classes. Committed to collaboration and arts integration, Traxler works closely with the classroom teachers to maintain a rich curriculum integrating music, movement, drama, and visual art within the social studies, math and ELA content across all grade levels.

Traxler has worked as a clinician for various organizations in NYC including the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall, and has presented music education workshops for Orff Chapters, School Districts, and Universities across the United States. She served on the AOSA (American Orff Schulwerk Association) NBT as Region V Rep, is a past president of NYCCAOSA, is currently serving on CORS, and teaches Level I and II Basic Pedagogy for various Orff Teacher Educator programs in the US.

Allen Moody is the Orff Music specialist at Idlewild Elementary in Memphis, TN, where he teaches music to kindergarten through fifth grade students. Under his direction, the Idlewild Recorder Ensemble has performed at the 2014 AOSA National Conference in Nashville, TN and at the TNMEA state conference. Allen is an active member in the Memphis Chapter of AOSA and is a past president. He currently serves as President of the West Tennessee General Music Education Association. 

Allen serves as the recorder instructor for summer Orff levels courses. He has presented sessions at the AOSA National Conference and workshops for Orff chapters across the USA. He received his Master’s of Music in Music Education from the University of Memphis in December 2018. He serves on the Executive Board for Summer at the Scheidt, through the University of Memphis, as a director of their Elementary Music Camp. Allen is a National Board Certified Teacher and CMA Music Teacher of Excellence.

Dr. Kelly A. Poquette is a veteran educator with certifications from the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, including being a certified AOSA Movement Teacher Educator. She has received district-, regional-, and state-level accolades, including being named the North Carolina 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Piedmont-Triad Region Teacher of the Year. She holds a B.A. from Wisconsin Lutheran College, an M.M. Ed. from VanderCook College of Music, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, all in Music Education.

Dr. Poquette is a member of The Orff Echo Editorial Board. She currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Music Education and Coordinator of Music Education at Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina. Kelly enjoys including puppets in her teaching and is a huge fan of National Parks, cross-stitching, and playing strategy board games with her husband.