14 Top nonfiction books like The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own (Corwin Teaching Essentials) by Dave Stuart

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The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own (Corwin Teaching Essentials)

By: Dave Stuart

4.43

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Student demotivation is experienced as pain―for students, for us, for everyone. But here′s the goo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own (Corwin Teaching Essentials) by Dave Stuart , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

By: David Epstein

4.20

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wonde… read more

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"The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it."

-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

"One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people…"

-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

"If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids.' Foster's point is that, despite the …"

-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

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2. The Crossover

By: Kwame Alexander

4.24

Format: 245 pages, ebook

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more

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"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Silence doesn’t mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

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3. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

By: Chris Crutcher

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sarah Byrnes and Eric Calhoune have been friends for years. When they were children, his weight and… read more

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" I believe there is important shit to be dealt with. "

-Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

" And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself. "

-Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

"From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'l…"

-Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

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4. The Serpent King

By: Jeff Zentner

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minist… read more

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5. The Astonishing Color of After

By: Emily X.R. Pan

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turn… read more

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6. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

By: Thomas C. Foster

3.17

Format: 319 pages,

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden r… read more

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7. Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

By: John Piper , David Mathis

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Hear his voice. Have his ear. Belong to his body. Three seemingly unremarkable principles shape and… read more

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8. The Classroom Management Secret: And 45 Other Keys to a Well-Behaved Class

By: Michael Linsin

3.68

Format: None pages,

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9. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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10. Broken Memory: A Story of Rwanda

By: Shelley Tanaka , Elisabeth Combres

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Hiding behind a chair, five-year-old Emma can't see her mother being murdered, but she hears everyt… read more

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11. Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School

By: None

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday li… read more

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12. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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13. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

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14. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. 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
"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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16. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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17. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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18. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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19. Watergate: A New History

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.49

Format: 832 pages, Hardcover

From Garrett​ Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind

By: David G. Myers

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A delightful tour of the wonders of our humanity from David G. Myers, the award-winning professor a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Colton Gentry's Third Act

By: Jeff Zentner

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country … read more

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"His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no o…"

-Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

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22. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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23. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

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"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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24. 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
  • education
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25. The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own (Corwin Teaching Essentials)

By: Dave Stuart

4.43

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Student demotivation is experienced as pain―for students, for us, for everyone. But here′s the goo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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26. These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most (Corwin Literacy)

By: Dave Stuart Jr.

4.55

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Streamline literacy instruction while increasing student achievementDave Stuart Jr.'s work is cente… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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27. Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more

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28. Micro Mentor Texts: Using Short Passages From Great Books to Teach Writer’s Craft

By: Penny Kittle

4.42

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At a time when students’ attention is being pulled in many directions, writing expert Penny Kittle … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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29. A Teacher’s Guide to Mentor Texts, 6-12: The Classroom Essentials Series

By: Katie Wood Ray

4.54

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Using mentor texts from a range of high-interest sources and diverse authors can be a real game cha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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30. Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internation… read more

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9 Best education books like The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own (Corwin Teaching Essentials) by Dave Stuart

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

4.46

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Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

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

Natalie Wexler

4.16

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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