Joshua Southard

Josh Southard is the Music Specialist at Smoky Row Elementary School in Carmel, IN. There he teaches K-5 music, as well as a 5th grade Orff Ensemble, and was named the 2018 Teacher of the Year. In January of 2019, he was also named the Indiana Elementary Music Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Music Educators Association. He has completed all of his levels of Orff-Schulwerk certification, as well as Orff Curriculum and Composition at Anderson University. He is a past-president of the Indiana Orff Schulwerk Association, and served on the National Board of Trustees of AOSA as the Regional VI Representative.

Josh is a featured presenter at Orff workshops around the country, state and national conferences, and has had articles published in both the Orff Echo and Reverberations. He teaches Level II Orff Certification courses in Gwinnett County in Atlanta, GA, and Level I at DePaul University in Chicago, IL and Anderson University in Anderson, IN.

Teacher Educator, American Orff Schulwerk Association, Level I, II, III Basic Pedagogy