The term curriculum refers to the academic content taught in a school or in a specific course.

In Washington State, academic content is based on Washington State learning standards. You can find more about Washington State learning standards here. 

Cascade School District has a rotating cycle of curricular resource adoption, during which teachers review the learning standards, review curricular resources, and determine which resources would best help students learn. During this school year, CSD is going through a review and adoption of Social-Emotional Learning, Spanish, and English as a Second Language curricular resources. If you have any questions about that process, you can contact James Swanson.

Other curricular resources used in Cascade School District include:

• Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Character Development
• Character Strong 
• English Language Arts
  • Language Essentials for Teaching of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) for K-2 reading through National Geographic Reach for Reading materials and LEXIA Core 5.
  • Study Synch
  • Sum Dog for ELA support (IRMS)
  • GimKit for ELA support (IRMS)
  • My Perspectives
• Elementary K-2
• Middle School
• High School
• Math
  • Eureka Math  
  • Sum Dog for Math support (IRMS)
  • GimKit for Math support (IRMS)
  • Carnegie Math 
• Elementary
• Middle School
• High School
• Music
  • Quaver Music Info
• Elementary
• Science

• Elementary
  • Science Kits from the North Central Educational Service District for elementary science; NGS standards followed
• High School

• Open Education Resources for high school science.
• Spanish- High School only
• Gente 
• Social Studies
• 6, 8, 10-12 grades – TCI – History Alive
• 7^th grade – The Washington Journey

If you have questions about SB 5395, comprehensive sexual health education, please refer to this presentation by Dr. Linda McKay, Assistant Superintendent of the North Central Washington Educational Service District.