Curriculum Maps

• Please note that curriculum mapping is always a collaborative and ongoing process; therefore, maps are continuously evolving throughout the year.  

Performance Standards

• Teachers in the district teach to all Wyoming Content and Performance Standards, but power standards (also known as priority standards) are tracked closely using multiple data points, to inform instruction and highlight essential skills and knowledge.  Power standards are determined with help from WDE Blueprints, as well as teacher knowledge and experience.  
• Power standard examples:
  • Common power standard: ELA W.4.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
  • Uncommon power standard: ELA SL.4.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Proficiency Scales

• Proficiency scales are used to collect data points for tracking student performance with power standards.  Scores on a proficiency scale range from 0 (no attempt made) to 4 (advanced proficiency with a standard).  A score of 3 is considered “proficient” with a standard, meaning that a student understands the knowledge or skill of that standard. Proficiency scales are tiered to inform instruction and help students increase their skills and abilities with a particular standard. For more specific examples, please view a proficiency scale included.

Curriculum Programs

• Literacy

  • For an elementary literacy program, Carbon County School District No. 2 uses Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s comprehensive English Language Arts program Journeys.  All district K-5 classrooms use this program to teach to the Wyoming Content and Performance standards with fidelity.  In addition to pacing guides already supplied with the program, teachers at CCSD2 are developing curriculum maps that accurately showcase separate units, learning goals, alignment to standards, assessments, etc.  Most of this work is done through grade-level PLC meetings, and each group has also undertaken processes to select prioritized standards and assemble functioning proficiency scales to track student performance and growth.

  • In grades 6-8, CCSD2 uses HMH’s comprehensive ELA program Collections to build upon the program effectiveness of the Journeys counterpart.   The Collections program is also aligned to the Wyoming Content and Performance standards, and supplies district teachers with pacing guides.  Much like their elementary counterparts, secondary ELA PLC groups are developing curriculum maps for Collections, and have also selected prioritized standards and built proficiency scales. 

  • For secondary ELA grades 9-12, curriculum maps aligning content to Wyoming standards already exist, as well as prioritized standards, proficiency scales, and various assessments.

  • In regards to writing, the Journeys and Collections programs incorporate built-in writing instruction, and the secondary grade 9-12 teachers have district-wide, standardized curriculum for continued development of student writing skills.  In addition to this, in 2019 CCSD2 purchased the writing supplemental program Step Up to Writing for grades K-8 to provide teachers with additional writing instruction tools.

• Mathematics

  • For a district-wide mathematics program, Carbon County School District No. 2 uses three distinct programs: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Math in Focus (MIF) for grades K-5, SAVVAS’s enVision Math for grades 6-8 and Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II students, and the College Preparatory Math Education Program (CPM) for all Pre-Calculus and Calculus students.  All programs align to the Wyoming Content and Performance standards.

  • Mathematics pacing guides and curriculum maps are used with fidelity for both elementary and secondary programs, according to the district’s PLC group structure (ex: 4th grade math is taught the same across all district elementary grades, secondary math (9-12) taught with fidelity across all CCSD2 high schools).  Like all content areas, the curriculum is continuously refined and modified to meet the needs of our student populations.  All mathematics K-12 PLC groups also utilize prioritized standards to narrow instructional focus and track student growth via use of proficiency scales.