11 must-read audiobook books like Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most by Angela Watson

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Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

By: Angela Watson

4.41

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Like most teachers, you want to use your life to make an impact — not only in the classroom, but in…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most by Angela Watson , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn by None, Myron Dueck

1. Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn

By: None , Myron Dueck

3.98

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

All the talk of closing the achievement gap in schools obscures a more fundamental issue: do the gr… read more

Similar categories in None's Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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2. These Things Hidden

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.88

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation… read more

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"It's not going to be easy," she says, looking up at me. "it's probably going to get a lot harder before it gets easier. No one can change what you did or what has happened in the past." I lower my he…"

-Heather Gudenkauf, These Things Hidden

Cover of Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms by Timothy D. Walker

3. Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms

By: Timothy D. Walker

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for Inte… read more

Similar categories in Timothy D. Walker's Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook

4. The Devil's Arithmetic

By: Jane Yolen

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Hannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always. But this year she will be mysterio… read more

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5. On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep

By: Gary Ezzo

3.20

Format: None pages,

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6. How Hard Can It Be?

By: Allison Pearson

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Few sequels beat the original, but How Hard Can It Be? does so hands down. Kate Reddy's comeback a… read more

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7. Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

By: Elena Aguilar

4.31

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A practical framework to avoid burnout and keep great teachers teaching Onward tackles the problem… read more

Similar categories in Elena Aguilar's Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • self help
  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of The Unforgettable Logan Foster (Logan Foster, #1) by Shawn  Peters

8. The Unforgettable Logan Foster (Logan Foster, #1)

By: Shawn Peters

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Packed with superheroes, supervillains, and epic showdowns between good and evil, The Unforgettable… read more

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9. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • audiobook
Cover of How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News by Peter Enns

10. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

By: Peter Enns

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more

Similar categories in Peter Enns's How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's And Then, Boom! book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • audiobook
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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12. Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

By: Angela Watson

4.41

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Like most teachers, you want to use your life to make an impact — not only in the classroom, but in… read more

Similar categories in Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • school
  • health
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
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13. Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

By: Jimmy Casas

3.86

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Eradicate Average! CULTURIZE Your School. Average schools don’t inspire greatness—and greatness is … read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Casas's Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes. book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough by Wade King

14. The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough

By: Wade King

4.12

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom … read more

Similar categories in Wade King's The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
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15. Kids These Days: A Game Plan For (Re)Connecting With Those We Teach, Lead, & Love

By: Jody Carrington

4.47

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

The kids are the least of our worries. Seriously. If that sounds blasphemous in a book for conc… read more

Similar categories in Jody Carrington's Kids These Days: A Game Plan For (Re)Connecting With Those We Teach, Lead, & Love book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • self help
  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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16. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

By: Sally J. Pla

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more

Similar categories in Sally J. Pla's The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • audiobook
Cover of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it by Natalie Wexler

17. The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it

By: Natalie Wexler

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle o… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Wexler's The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • self help
  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America by Ted Dintersmith

18. What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America

By: Ted Dintersmith

3.96

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring account of ordinary teachers who are doing extraordinary things that could transform e… read more

Similar categories in Ted Dintersmith's What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • audiobook
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm by Hamish Brewer

19. Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm

By: Hamish Brewer

4.24

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Hamish Brewer (aka the Tattooed Skateboarding Principal) grew up in a home disrupted by poverty, ad… read more

Similar categories in Hamish Brewer's Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of Talk to Me: Find the Right Words to Inspire, Encourage, and Get Things Done by Kim Bearden

20. Talk to Me: Find the Right Words to Inspire, Encourage, and Get Things Done

By: Kim Bearden

4.31

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Talk to me.From Kim Bearden, cofounder of Ron Clark Academy and author of the bestselling book Cras… read more

Similar categories in Kim Bearden's Talk to Me: Find the Right Words to Inspire, Encourage, and Get Things Done book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of Emotional Poverty in All Demographics by Ruby K. Payne

21. Emotional Poverty in All Demographics

By: Ruby K. Payne

4.01

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Address anger, anxiety, and violence in the classroom with strategies and best practices that work … read more

Similar categories in Ruby K. Payne's Emotional Poverty in All Demographics book and Angela Watson's Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

8 Top school books like Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most by Angela Watson

Transform Your Habits

Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms

Timothy D. Walker

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

Elena Aguilar

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

Angela Watson

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

Jimmy Casas

3.86

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5 Best school books like Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm by Hamish Brewer

Transform Your Habits

Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms

Timothy D. Walker

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most

Angela Watson

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

Jimmy Casas

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Kids These Days: A Game Plan For (Re)Connecting With Those We Teach, Lead, & Love

Jody Carrington

4.47

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