Montana standards alignment

• Civics & Government, Grades 9-12 — (1)(i)

  Partially covered

  evaluate government procedures for making decisions at the local, state, national, tribal, and international levels

  Covered by

  • Montana Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · Montana Civics, Lesson 4 · Direct democracy and how a bill becomes law
  • · Montana Civics, Lesson 2 · A citizen Legislature that meets 90 days every other year
  • · Montana Civics, Lesson 3 · The executive and how Montana picks its judges
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: Montana's own decision-making procedures are taught in real depth — the biennial 90-day Legislature, how a bill becomes a Montana law (with the amendatory veto and the mail-poll override), the initiative and referendum, and the nonpartisan judiciary — alongside the full federal bill process. The tribal and international levels the standard also names are not taught.

• Civics & Government, Grades 9-12 — (1)(e)

  Partially covered

  evaluate how citizens and institutions address social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international levels

  Covered by

  • Montana Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law

  • · Montana Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
  • · Montana Civics, Lesson 2 · A citizen Legislature that meets 90 days every other year
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: how Montanans and their institutions address problems is taught as practice — the citizen Legislature, Montana's county commissions and local boards, showing up and tracking a live bill, and using the initiative — at the local and state levels. The tribal, national, and international levels are not all covered.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Indian Education for All — Montana's constitutional mandate, which this catalog does not teach. Montana's 1972 Constitution (Article X, Section 1(2)) commits the state, in its educational goals, to “the preservation of [American Indians'] cultural integrity,” and the Indian Education for All Act (1999) carries that into every subject. It is woven through the standards we mapped: civics-and-government (1)(g) (“explain the foundations and complexity of sovereignty for federally recognized tribes in Montana”), the “including American Indians / American Indian history / tribal contexts” clauses in economics (2)(a), geography (3)(d), and history (4)(c), (4)(d), (4)(e), and (4)(j), the American Indian author/source requirements added to the ELA literacy standards, and a science standard on American Indian tribes' management of natural resources. Montana Civics teaches Montana's OWN state government, and the BVC catalog teaches world, U.S., colonial, and labor history — but neither teaches tribal governments, tribal sovereignty, or American Indian history. So every tribal/American-Indian-specific standard and standard-clause is NOT claimed, and the IEFA-modified literacy standards we do claim are marked partial with the American Indian requirement called out. The gap is in the catalog, not the standards.
• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Montana mathematics standard.
• Montana's own state government has thin coverage in the 9-12 standards. Montana Civics teaches the 1972 Constitution (environment, privacy, right to know), the biennial 90-day citizen Legislature, the plural executive, the nonpartisan elected judiciary, the initiative and referendum, and the 56 counties — from Montana's own sources. But the grades 9-12 civics-and-government standards are federal, comparative, and tribal in emphasis; they contain no “describe your state's government structure” expectation at high school, so the flagship's Montana-structure lessons map only where (1)(e), (1)(i), and (1)(j) reach. The depth is in the course, not the standards.
• Civics-and-government expectations we checked and rejected. Beyond the tribal-sovereignty standard (1)(g), we do not claim (1)(b) (constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements on relationships), (1)(c) (international agreements on world issues), (1)(d) (applying civic virtues when working with others, a disposition), (1)(f) (comparing the U.S. system to international systems), (1)(h) (deliberative processes), (1)(k) (market, media, and group influences on civic virtues — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), or (1)(l) (ensuring civil rights across levels) — the courses do not genuinely teach these.
• Economics, geography, and history expectations we checked and rejected. Economics (2)(a) (IEFA), (2)(b), (2)(e), (2)(g)-(2)(i) (economic cycles, indicators, and monetary and fiscal policy) are not taught — the BVC economics is microeconomic and trade-focused. Geography (3)(a), (3)(c), (3)(e), (3)(f), and (3)(h) are not the worked material. History (4)(a), (4)(e) (IEFA), (4)(f), (4)(g), (4)(j) (IEFA), (4)(l), (4)(m), and (4)(n) (a sustained source-based argument-writing programme) are not genuinely taught; the Coffee project reaches (4)(m)/(4)(n) only as one optional project.
• Science — two partial claims, no more. Montana's 2016 science standards are Montana's own, not the NGSS, and this catalog has no laboratory work, no investigation, and no modelling — so we claim exactly two Earth-and-Space-Science standards, partially, and explain the limit on each. The IEFA science standard (American Indian tribes' management of natural resources) is not taught.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Montana's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Montana claims this pass.