TY - BOOK AU - Sornson,Robert TI - Fanatically formative: successful learning during the crucial K-3 years SN - 1452225184 AV - LB1511 .S69 2012 U1 - 372.973 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Corwin KW - Education, Primary KW - United States KW - Primary school teaching KW - Educational tests and measurements N1 - 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 ER -