Allen Moody is the Orff Music specialist at Idlewild Elementary where he teaches music to kindergarten through fifth grade students. Under his direction, the Idlewild Recorder Ensemble has performed at the 2014 AOSA National Conference in Nashville, TN and at the TNMEA state conference. Allen is an active member in the Memphis Chapter of AOSA and is a past president. He currently serves as Vice President of the West Tennessee General Music Education Association. At the national level, he serves on the AOSA Curriculum Overview and Research subcommittee and is an approved teacher educator. Allen is a sought after clinician who serves as the recorder instructor for summer Orff levels course at Lee University and at the University of Memphis he is the course director and recorder instructor for the Summer Orff Institute for teacher training. He received his Master’s of Music in Music Education from the University of Memphis in December 2018. He serves on the Executive Board for Summer at the Scheidt, through the University of Memphis, pioneering their inaugural Elementary Music Camp last summer. Allen is a National Board Certified Teacher.