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Instructional Focus Calendar Refresher
Teaching and LearningKati Pearson, Director
Tammy Demps, Program SpecialistRehana Insanally, Program Specialist
Zhakima Spratley, Program Specialist
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Purpose for FCIM Focus Calendars:
• Collaboratively creates a roadmap for teaching, re-teaching, and assessing targeted benchmarks during the academic school year.
• Places focused instruction on the tested benchmarks while answering the following questions:– What do students need to know?– What do I need to teach them?– How much time do I need to do it?
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FCIM CalendarsAre Not….but, they Are…..
• “The Instructional Focus Calendar or FCIM calendar is not your lesson plan or scope and sequence.
• It is simply a guide that tells what objectives will be focused • on during a particular week. It ensures that every concept on the
state assessment will be covered in the classroom.
• It helps align the written curriculum, with the taught curriculum, • with the tested curriculum.” (Taken from Closing the
Achievement Gap: No Excuses by P. Davenport and G. Anderson)
• Instructional Focus Calendar or FCIM calendar may look • different at each school based on the data and the needs of
the students.
Developing FCIM Focus Calendars
Determine areas of focus based on academic needs of whole class, course, and/or grade-level assessment data.
Map dates for a specific benchmark skill to be taught, re-taught, or reviewed.
Which specific skills do we map? Select specific skills with the weakest
performance data.
› Prioritize by most highly tested benchmark skills using FCAT Content Assessed Reports.
Determine the order for specific skills to be re-taught/reviewed. › Prioritize by sequence of specific skills within
benchmark cluster. Map specific skills to calendar dates. Allow sufficient time for introducing the skill,
providing opportunities to practice the skill, and assessing the skill.
Curriculum Planning
Align curriculum with Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) and K-1 CCSS.
Identify most highly tested benchmarks. Identify benchmarks with weakest student
achievement data. Prepare FCIM Focus Calendar.
Effective classrooms are data driven and benchmark focused.
Academic School Year: Segments
The academic school year should be viewed in three distinct segments as you implement FCIM Focus Mini-Lessons.
August – January
Using baseline data, instruction
prioritizes benchmarks and skills identified
through the analysis of the
school’s student data.
April – June
Instruction prioritizes
benchmarks not covered earlier in
the school year and skills essential to
learning for the next grade level or
course.
January – March
Using mid-year data, instruction
prioritizes benchmarks and skills identified
through the analysis of the
school’s student data. Prioritize based on most highly tested benchmarks with
more time allotted for benchmarks with the weakest student performance data.
Alignment of Instructional Focus Calendar’s MUST:
Align to:› Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and K-1 CCSS
› Instruction› Assessment Data
Additional Resources
Instructional Focus Calendar FAQsInstructional Focus Calendar Sample and Blank Template