Orientation to district curriculum

I was impressed by Dr. Closen's quote "If you don't know what you are supposed to teach--how do you know when you've taught it?"  That made me think about whether or not our district has all of our curriculum arrows aligned.  New teachers especially need to know what the district expects them to be teaching--district standards, etc.  I am glad that the instrumental music department has gotten our act together and produced a curriculum for 6-12 grade.  Unfortunately, there is one teacher who doesn't follow it but he is retiring this year and that gives us hope that the new person will be a team player.