Janet Greene

Janet Greene received her MA in Early Childhood Curriculum from Sonoma State University. She has a Level 3 Orff Certification and received Fulbright and Austrian Government Grants to attend the one year Special Course at the Orff Institute for Music and Dance in Salzburg, Austria.

Janet is in her 15th year as the TK-3rd grade Orff Music, Movement and Integration Specialist at Oak Grove Elementary School in Graton, California. She is also a teaching artist for the Luther Burbank Center (LBC) which provides school residencies integrating arts into the curriculum.

Her course Introduction to Orff and Classroom Applications is offered through the San Francisco International Orff Course. She has given workshops and trainings for early childhood, music and national Orff conferences.

Janet has been a mentor teacher for Young Audiences, the Santa Rosa Symphony’s El Sistema program and the San Francisco Symphony’s Keeping Score project for classroom teachers. She has received numerous grants from schools and districts to integrate music and movement into the TK-4  Language Arts, ESL, Math and Science curriculum. Her international courses for children and teachers have taken her to Bali, Bhutan, Thailand and South Africa. Janet enjoys dancing and playing the harpsichord, accordion and percussion.