Fanatically formative : successful learning during the crucial K-3 years / Bob Sornson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Students at risk -- Responsive instruction versus curriculum-driven instruction: why public education's race to cover more material and test more students is failing America's children -- Finding focus -- Essential skills and the whole child -- The challenge of formative assessment and responsive instruction -- The importance of classroom and school culture -- Instructional support: responding to teacher requests for help -- The importance of quality preschool -- The importance of parent engagement -- When good people work within lousy systems -- Pathfinders -- Love of learning -- Critical thinking followed by action -- The lives of children in the balance.