WHAT DO WE TEACH?
Welcome to the Sunny Hills Parent Page. From this page you can link to the Issaquah School District and the State OSPI sites that deal with the grade by grade frameworks for each grade in music. These are known as EALR's (Essential Academic Learning Requirements)
RCW 28A.150.210—State Learning Goals—Arts is Basic Education and included as an
Essential Academic Learning Requirement (EALR) (dance, music, theatre, and visual
arts). Education reform, 1993- (Formerly HB 1209, 1993.)
Additionally,
although we associate the No Child Left Behind legislation as addressing only
math and reading, there IS an arts component: Read on:
NCLB/ESEA, 2002—No Child Left Behind/Elementary and Secondary Education Act—
Arts Education is Federal Law and a “core” academic subject area—Title V, Part D,
subpart 15 (Section 5551). Arts instruction will be taught by highly qualified and
certified instructors, aligned to rigorous state standards (EALRs) and accessible to all
students. States will define The Arts. Washington State defined The Arts as dance,
music, theatre, and visual arts
OK.....NOW
we can march forward knowing the POLICY!!!
To see a copy of the EALR frameworks from the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), click the link below It will take you to a grade level by grade level summary of these expectations.
http://www.k12.wa.us/curriculumInstruct/Arts/frameworks/Emusic.aspx
The next link is to our own Issaquah School District framework. Some call it "scope and sequence". Grade level by grade level you can see what is being taught throughout the district in our elementary music classes. Click the link below.