Tara Clayburn is the Lower School Music Teacher at The Potomac School in McLean, VA, where she teaches Kindergarten through Grade 3 music and movement classes, as well as Third Grade Chorus. She is a teacher educator for the American Orff Schulwerk Association, and she currently teaches Level 1 pedagogy at the North Florida Orff Course and at West Chester University. She is an active workshop clinician for AOSA chapters and has presented workshop sessions at the AOSA National Professional Development Conference in 2021 and 2025. She has had articles published in The Orff Echo, AOSA Reverberations, and the Kentucky Music Educators Association’s Bluegrass Music News. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music Education from Morehead State University and received her Orff-Schulwerk levels certification from The University of Kentucky. She further studied the Schulwerk at the Summer Course at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg Austria, as well as many masterclasses and workshops throughout the United States. Tara is a Past-President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter of AOSA.

Katie Traxler teaches K-5 music at Gateway Elementary, a public school in Madison, TN. Previously she taught 3K-5 music in NYC for 15 years. In addition to teaching general music classes, she leads a chorus, recorder and Orff ensembles, and various after-school classes and clubs in piano, guitar, ukulele, and movement. 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 the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall, the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and has presented music education workshops for Orff Chapters, School Districts, State MEA Conferences, AOSA, and Universities across the United States. She has served on the AOSA NBT, CORS, and is the VP of the MTAOSA local Chapter. She teaches Basic Pedagogy Levels I and II for various Orff Teacher Educator programs in the US.

Anna Marie Spallina is a teacher, performer and clinician who has led numerous workshops and Orff certification courses. She attended Westminster Choir College of Rider University and earned her graduate degree from the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. She received her Orff certification from the New England Conservatory, Boston. Ms. Spallina has done further study in Orff, recorder, and historical dance in Salzburg, Austria, Assisi and Urbino, Italy. She is a former faculty member of the Bank Street School for Children in Manhattan and PS 242 in Harlem. Ms. Spallina taught general music K through 4th grade at PS 163 in Manhattan for 22 years. Now retired she continues to perform with the folk trio Avon Faire.