The Iowa Department of Education has posted guidelines for K-8 Music Education aligned to the Iowa Core Curriculum!

Arts and the Iowa Core

Notice that K-8 music was the first fine arts area to complete their work and have it approved by the DOE! A direct link to the document is here.

Congratulations to our First Iowa Orff members who helped on this writing process: Aaron Hansen, Michelle Droe, and Tim Purdum. Special congrats to our past president, Linda Murphy, who actually ran the entire process and communicated with the DOE on behalf of music educators across the state!