Curriculum Resources

What is curriculum in education? Curriculum is what is taught in a given course or subject. Curriculum refers to an interactive system of instruction and learning with specific goals, contents, strategies, measurement, and resources. The desired outcome of curriculum is a transfer and successful development of knowledge and critical skills.

Curriculum Resources

Mathematics

English Language Arts

Hellgate Elementary School District's K-8 English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum aligns with the Montana Common Core Standards. These standards cover the following specific topic areas:
- Reading Standards for Literature (K-12)
- Reading Standards for Information Text (K-12)
- Reading Foundation Skills (K-5)
- Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (6-12)
- Writing Standards (K-12)
- Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (6-12)
- Speaking and Listening Standards (K-12)
- Language Standards (K-12)

Read Well is used in Kindergarten through third grade.

Reading Mastery Transformations is used in 4th and 5th grade.

Novel Studies are used in 2nd through 8th grade.

6-8th Grade Novels

Science

Social Studies

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Into Social Studies is used in Kindergarten through 5th grade.
- Into Social Studies Website
6th and 7th grades use:
- World History Ancient Civilizations Through the Renaissance 2012 - Holt McDougal
8th grade uses:
- United States History 2012 - Holt McDougal

Social Studies Standards

NCSS National Standards

Montana Content Standards for Social Studies For K-12

Health Enhancement

Health Enhancement Curriculum

Health Enhancement Curriculum - board approved 11/13/2023

Supporting documents:

K-12 Health Curriculum Document - MCPS Curriculum Consortium - June 2016
Montana Health Enhancement Content Standards (Health and Physical Education) Grade by Grade - Montana Office of Public Instruction - July 2016
Montana Health Enhancement Content Standards Framework by Grade - Montana Office of Public Instruction -July 2016
Montana Health Enhancement Standards Model Curriculum Guide for K-12 Health and Physical Education - Montana Office of Public Instruction - July 2016
Health and Human Development Notices

World Languages - Spanish

Whole Child Skill Development

Programs Utilized in Whole Child Skill Development

CONNECT

Creating a positive, kind, and healthy campus community is our goal at Hellgate Elementary. Hellgate Elementary is utilizing three research-based programs within our district in order to achieve a safe and positive school environment: OLWEUS, Second Step, and PAX. As a district, we refer to these three as “CONNECT.”

Using the three programs mentioned above, teachers lead weekly class “CONNECT” meetings to create a healthy space for discussion, reflection, and teach-to’s surrounding bullying and other important topics throughout the school year.

Olweus

OLWEUS

Hellgate Elementary is committed to the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. The goals of the program are to reduce existing bullying problems among students, to prevent the development of new bullying problems, and to achieve better peer relations at school.

Olweus Rules

We will not bully others.
We will help students who are bullied
We will include students who are left out.
When we know someone is being bullied, we will tell an adult at school and an adult at home.

Discipline Rubric Grades K-5

Discipline Rubric Middle School

For additional information about bullying prevention we encourage parents to view the Olweus Homepage http://olweus.org/public/index.page

PAX Good Behavior Game

PAX

Trauma-informed, classroom-based intervention with a primary goal of teaching students self-regulation. PAX has been proven to change student brain chemistry with life-long effects that dramatically impact mental health, substance abuse, graduation rates and suicide in our children and communities. (PAX is being utilized in building 2 for the 2022-2023 school year and will be rolled out to building 1 for the 2023-2024 school year).

For more information on PAX, visit this site.

Second Step

A classroom-based social skills program for students in preschool through junior high (ages 4–14 years), with a distinct curriculum for each grade. It is designed to reduce impulsive, high-risk, and aggressive behaviors and increase children's social competence and other protective factors.