Bob Sornson

Bob Sornson, Ph.D.

Early Learning Foundation

Bob Sornson is an award-winning author and international consultant whose work focuses on competency based learning, early learning success, and parent engagement. He works internationally with school districts, universities and parent organizations. In 2001 he founded the Early Learning Foundation, dedicated to giving all kids a chance to become successful learners for life.

Bob earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Michigan and his PH.D. from Andrews University. For over thirty years he worked as a teacher and as an administrator in Michigan public schools, and developed an acclaimed model early learning success initiative that focuses on personalized competency based learning for every child.

Bob's publications include:

* Brainless Sameness: The Demise of One-Size-Fits-All Instruction

* Over-Tested and Under-Prepared: Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our Schools (Routledge)

* Essential Math Skills (Shell Education)

* Fanatically Formative (Corwin Press)

* Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn (Love and Logic Press)

* The Juice Box Bully (Early Learning Foundation)

* Stand in My Shoes: Kids Learning about Empathy (Early Learning Foundation)

* Teaching and Joy (ASCD)

* Preventing Early Learning Failure (ASCD)

* Number Facts and Jumping Jacks (Crystal Springs Books)

* The Essential Skill Inventories, K-3 (Early Learning Foundation)

* The Math Moms and Dads Home Program, Pre-K to K, (Early Learning Foundation)

* The Math Moms and Dads Home Program, K to 3 (Early Learning Foundation)

* The 30Minute Motor Skills Development Plan (Early Learning Foundation)

Bob Sornson can be contacted at bobsornson@gmail.com.