8 best-selling psychology books like What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America by Ted Dintersmith

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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…

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1. Solo

By: Kwame Alexander , Mary Rand Hess

3.94

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

When the heart gets lost, let the music find you. Blade never asked for a life of the rich and f… read more

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  • audiobook
"Life is a mountain, Youngblood. Nobody said the climb was gonna be easy. You gotta choose your route. Get your gear. Breathe. Clear your mind. And enjoy the journey"

-Kwame Alexander, Solo

"The heart is a small and lonesome place she is a country her eyes hold the river I used to swim her skin, the morning fruit I touched and tasted the heart is a small and lonesome place she is a count…"

-Kwame Alexander, Solo

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2. Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

By: Ken Robinson , Lou Aronica

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by the New York Timesbe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • psychology
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3. Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat

By: Michael Masterson

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Whether you're thinking about starting a new business or growing an existing one, Ready, Fire, Aimh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership

4. Shifting the Monkey: The Art of Protecting Good from Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers

By: Todd Whitaker

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • leadership
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5. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • audiobook
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6. The Last Summer

By: Ann Brashares , Edith Beleites

3.92

Format: 292 pages,

Riley and Alice, two sisters now in their twenties, and as fiercely different as they are loyal, ha… read more

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7. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

By: Christopher Emdin

3.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

8. Her Mother's Hope (Marta's Legacy, #1)

By: Francine Rivers

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

2011 Retailers Choice Award winner! The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine R… read more

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9. The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child

By: Ron Clark

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, Ron Clark's New York Timesbestseller that's changing America one child at a time!… read more

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10. Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life As an Educator

By: Dave Burgess

3.32

Format: 240 pages,

Based on Dave Burgess's popular "Outrageous Teaching" and "Teach Like a PIRATE" seminars, this book… read more

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11. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

By: Jocelyn K. Glei

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven't accomplished the most import… read more

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12. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers

By: Jo Boaler

4.11

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

“Boaler is one of those rare and remarkable educators who not only know the secret of great teachin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
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14. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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15. How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

By: Epictetus

4.11

Format: 173 pages, Hardcover

A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's le… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"A companion's crudeness is bound to rub off on the one he is with, no matter how refined that person may be."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"Don't we recall that no one does injury or benefit to another, but that the cause of each of these things is a judgement."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"Don't ask for things to happen as you would like them to, but wish them to happen as they actually do, and you will be all right."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"But to myself all predictions are favorable if I wish them to be, since it is up to me to benefit from the outcome, whatever it may be."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

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16. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • leadership
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17. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most by Angela Watson

18. 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

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  • audiobook
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
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19. 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

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  • audiobook
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
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20. Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

By: Joe Feldman

4.21

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Joe Feldman shows us how we can use grading to help students become the leaders of their own learn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • teaching
  • academic
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21. Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice

By: Nathan Maynard

3.98

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Eliminate old-school punishments and create a community of responsible, productive learners Are yo… read more

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  • leadership
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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22. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • teaching
  • audiobook
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23. Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

By: Shane Safir

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we erad… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • leadership
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24. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By: Alexandra Robbins

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • teaching
  • audiobook
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

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25. 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

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  • unfinished
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  • psychology
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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • leadership
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26. The Pilot's Daughter

By: Meredith Jaeger

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The glitzy days of 1920s New York meet the devastation of those left behind in World War II in a ne… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Educator's ATLAS: Your Roadmap to Engagement by Weston Kieschnick

27. The Educator's ATLAS: Your Roadmap to Engagement

By: Weston Kieschnick

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Think back to your most engaging experience as a student. What made it so exhilarating and memorabl… read more

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28. How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Joshua R. Eyler

4.05

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • teaching
  • academic
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
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29. Imagine If . . .: Creating a Future for Us All

By: Ken Robinson

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A call to action that pulls together all of Sir Ken Robinson’s key messages and philosophies, and t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • academic
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30. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

31. Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

By: Joseph S. Nye Jr.

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Americans constantly make moral statements about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Ken Robinson , Lou Aronica

3.70

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Todd Whitaker

3.85

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Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms

Timothy D. Walker

3.41

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3.15

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David Brooks

4.14

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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