Doug Goodkin is currently in his 32nd year at The San Francisco School, where he teaches music and movement to children between three years old and eighth grade.  He regularly gives workshops for Orff Chapters throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as presenting at State and National Conferences.  He is an internationally recognized practitioner of Orff Schulwerk, teaching Orff courses throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Asia, Malaysia and Brazil.  He is the director of The San Francisco Orff Certification Course and teaches his own course on Jazz and Orff Schulwerk in San Francisco.  He received the distinguished Pro Merito Award for his contributions to Orff Schulwerk in July, 2000.

Doug is the author of six books on music education and is an author of the Macmillan/McGraw -Hill textbook series Share the Music and a contributing author in various collections.  Doug is also a founding member of Xephyr, an Orff-based performing group that has performed at the International Symposium in Salzburg, Austria (1995 and 2000), the Orff Centenary Celebration in St. Paul, Minnesota (1995), the AOSA National Conference in Dallas (1995), Seattle (1997) and Phoenix (1999), and in several independently produced concerts in San Francisco.

Doug is particularly known for his innovative application of Orff Schulwerk to the teaching of jazz and multi-cultural music and his ideas connecting Orff Schulwerk to the greater world of education, culture and human potential.  As described by one student: "His work conveys a long, earnest and continuing struggle to present music of integrity in a way that affirms our collective humanity."