Carly Schieffer

Carly currently serves as adjunct faculty at Mount Mercy University where she teaches undergraduate music education methods courses to both majors and non-majors and supervises student teachers, serves as the conference chair for the Iowa Music Educators professional development conference, maintains a private music studio, and leads early childhood music classes. Prior to these appointments she taught elementary general music for nine years in a variety of school settings including overseas. She received a Bachelors of Music Education from Iowa State University and a Masters of Arts in Music Education with a Kodály emphasis at the University of St. Thomas. She holds a mastery certificate in Kodály and has also taken courses in Dalcroze, Orff Level I, and Music Together. She has served as the past president of Kodály Educators of Iowa. 

Carly and her husband, Michael, have one son, two daughters, and are licensed foster parents.