11 must-read education books like Thinking Like a Lawyer by Colin Seale

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Thinking Like a Lawyer

By: Colin Seale

3.92

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in r…

If you liked the education plot in Thinking Like a Lawyer by Colin Seale , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

By: Stanley Fish

3.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professo… read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • education
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2. Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country

By: C.J. Box

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Over the course of eighteen books, C. J. Box has been consistently hailed for his brilliant storyte… read more

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3. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

By: Roger L. Martin , A.G. Lafley

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Are you just playing--or playing to win? Strategy is not complex. But it ishard. It's hard because … read more

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4. The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

By: Jessica Lahey

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned K… read more

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5. Nat Enough (Nat Enough #1)

By: Maria Scrivan

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller! Making friends isn't easy, but losing them is even harder!Natalie has … read more

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6. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

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7. School Trip (New Kid, #3)

By: Jerry Craft

4.20

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, L… read more

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8. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.14

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

By: William Stixrud

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"It is not an overstatement to say that this is one of the most radical and important books on rais… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • education
"Society thrives on the diverse talents of its people."

-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

"The reality is that we become successful in this world by working hard at something that comes easily to us, and that engages us."

-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

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10. How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone: Confident communication in every situation

By: Mark Rhodes

3.23

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Be a people magnet! Improving your people skills and becoming a people-person is a surefire route t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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11. Thinking Like a Lawyer

By: Colin Seale

3.92

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in r… read more

Similar categories in Colin Seale's Thinking Like a Lawyer book and Colin Seale's Thinking Like a Lawyer

  • logic
  • parenting
  • law
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
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12. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

By: Gholdy Muhammad

4.45

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is … read more

Similar categories in Gholdy Muhammad's Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy book and Colin Seale's Thinking Like a Lawyer

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
"As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"Perhaps the people who need criticality the most become those who share identities with the greatest oppressors of the world."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"We live in a period where there's no time for "urgent-free pedagogy." Our instructional pursuits must be honest, bold, raw, unapologetic, and responsive to the social times."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

"The need to agitate for criticality historically spoke to the social unrest at the time, and I argue that the need to agitate is still necessary and pressing in classrooms today."

-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

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13. How to Think Like a Lawyer—And Why: A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas

By: Kim Wehle

3.37

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in th… read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series) by Peter Liljedahl

14. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

By: Peter Liljedahl

4.57

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
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15. Critical Thinking

By: Jonathan Haber

3.62

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

An insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking—from Aristotle and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • education
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16. The Science of Reading in Action: Brain-Friendly Strategies Every Teacher Needs to Know

By: Malia Hollowell

4.34

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not just a book, it’s a teaching movement. We all want to help students learn to read, but… read more

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  • education
  • parenting
Cover of The Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life by John Schu

17. The Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life

By: John Schu

4.67

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

With the rise of teacher stressors, new and changing state standards, and high-stakes testing, it i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of Designing for Depth in the Classroom: A Framework for Purposeful Differentiation by Andi McNair

18. Designing for Depth in the Classroom: A Framework for Purposeful Differentiation

By: Andi McNair

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Differentiate your gifted classroom by designing experiences instead of writing lessons plans with … read more

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19. Brain-Based Learning With Gifted Students: Lessons From Neuroscience on Cultivating Curiosity, Metacognition, Empathy, and Brain Plasticity: Grades 3-6

By: Kathryn Fishman-Weaver

4.56

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Brain-Based Learning With Gifted Students combines relevant research in neuroscience with engaging … read more

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Cover of Collaboration, Coteaching, and Coaching in Gifted Education: Sharing Strategies to Support Gifted Learners by Emily Mofield Ed.D.

20. Collaboration, Coteaching, and Coaching in Gifted Education: Sharing Strategies to Support Gifted Learners

By: Emily Mofield Ed.D.

4.21

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Winner of NAGC's 2021 Book of the Year Award This must-have The book also includes considerations … read more

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  • education
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21. Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World

By: Linda Darling-Hammond

4.15

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover how high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world Producing highly skill… read more

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  • education

11 Top nonfiction books like Thinking Like a Lawyer by Colin Seale

Transform Your Habits

Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

Stanley Fish

3.07

Transform Your Habits

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Bettina L. Love

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

William Stixrud

4.35

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5 best-selling education books like Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World by Linda Darling-Hammond

Transform Your Habits

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam M. Grant

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Thinking Like a Lawyer

Colin Seale

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality: Possibilities for Democratic Schooling (Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity)

Sonya Douglass

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better

Anthony S. Bryk

3.91

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