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S1: E23 Darla Meek: Using the Orff Approach with Children's Church Choirs

Season One: Episode 23 Part II with Darla Meek Using the Orff Approach with Children's Church Choirs Darla Meek is the Music Education Coordinator and Lecturer at Texas A&M University in Commerce.  She teaches undergraduate and graduate elementary music education classes and supervises student teachers.  She earned her Bachelor of Music Education from Dallas Baptist University and her Master of Music from Southern Methodist University.  Darla also earned a Performer’s Certificate from the Performing Artist’s Musical Theatre Conservatory in Dallas. She is currently working toward her Doctor of Education in Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction.   Darla is certified in Kodaly and Orff Schulwerk and serves as a teacher trainer for the American Orff Schulwerk Association in both Basic Pedagogy Level I and Movement for Orff Levels Courses.  She has served as assistant conductor for the Mesquite Children’s Chorus and the Children’s Chorus of Collin County and has serve

S1: E23 Part I Orff, Kodaly and Recorders with Darla Meek

Season One: Episode 23 Part I - Darla Meek on the Orff and Kodaly approaches and using recorder in the elementary classroom   Darla Meek is the Music Education Coordinator and Lecturer at Texas A&M University in Commerce.  She teacher undergraduate and graduate elementary music education classes and supervises student teachers.  She earned her Bachelor of Music Education from Dallas Baptist University and her Master of Music from Southern Methodist University.  Darla also earned a Performer's Certificate from the Performing Artist's Musical Theatre Conservatory in Dallas.  She is currently working towards her Doctor of Education in Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction. Darla is certified in Kodály and Orff Schulwerk and serves as a teacher trainer for the American Orff Schulwerk Association in both Basic Pedagogy I and Movement for Orff Levels Courses.  She has served as assistant conductor for the Mesquite Children's Chorus and the Children's Chorus o

S1: E22 Drue Bullington

Season One:  Episode Twenty-Two Elemental Music, Orff Schulwerk, and Art Informing Music with Drue Bullington Drue Bullington Bio Drue Bullington teaches elemental music and movement at Brownstown Elementary School in the Conestoga Valley School District in Lancaster, PA.  He earned his Bachelor in Music Education and Masters of Music in Music Education with a certification in Orff Schulwerk from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.  He holds a second Master's Degree in Online Teaching and Learning from Wilkes University.  He serves on the executive board as secretary for the American Center for Elemental Music and Movement (ACEMM).  Drue is a Teacher Educator in a number of AOSA Orff Schulwerk Levels around the country. ACEMM: If you're looking for a wonderful place to learn more with musical colleagues, consider coming to the ACEMM Retreat and Jamboree this summer 2019.  It's like summer camp in the Catskill Mountains of NY for music teachers!  Drue will be