BethAnn Hepburn teaches general music and choir for Streetsboro City Schools. BethAnn is an AOSA levels instructor, teaching level one, Orff Master classes and Curriculum Development in the Orff Schulwerk classroom. She is serving her second term as the North Central Division representative on the NAfME General Music Council. She is a Ph. D. candidate in Music Education at Kent State University in music education. BethAnn is an Orff instructor for Level I Orff Schulwerk at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Nazareth University in New York. As a clinician, BethAnn is a frequent presenter and teacher educator for AOSA and has presented professional development workshops throughout the United States, China, Croatia, Malaysia, Scotland, and Spain. She conducts elementary honors choirs and All-state Orff ensembles. BethAnn is co-author of Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Classroom Books 1 -4.

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