8 must-read teaching books like Start. Right. Now.: Teach and Lead for Excellence by Todd Whitaker

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Start. Right. Now.: Teach and Lead for Excellence

By: Todd Whitaker

4.03

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Are You Ready to Take the First Step Toward Excellence? What does it take to be the very best teach…

If you liked the teaching plot in Start. Right. Now.: Teach and Lead for Excellence by Todd Whitaker , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning

By: Peter H. Johnston

4.15

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and rel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, Jim Huling

2. The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

By: Sean Covey , Chris McChesney , Jim Huling

4.08

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“ The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a book every leader should read.” —Clayton Christensen, Profess… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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3. The Five Love Languages of Children

By: Gary Chapman , D. Ross Campbell

4.50

Format: 532 pages,

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  • nonfiction
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4. Kids Deserve It: Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking

By: Todd Nesloney , Adam Welcome

3.77

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • leadership

5. The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity

By: George Couros

3.67

Format: 117 pages,

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6. The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain

By: Steven R. Gundry

4.37

Format: None pages,

From renowned cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry, MD, a revolutionary look at the hidden compounds in… read more

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7. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

By: Douglas Stone , Bruce Patton , Sheila Heen

3.93

Format: 592 pages,

Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money … read more

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8. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

By: Pope Benedict XVI , Pope John Paul II , Catholic Church , United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

4.50

Format: 846 pages, Paperback

Over 3 million copies sold!  Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"  Man and woman were made “for each other"

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

"The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship."

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

"The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life."

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

"When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will be complete"

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

9. The Towering Sky (The Thousandth Floor, #3)

By: Katharine McGee

3.74

Format: 70 pages, ebook

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10. An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students

By: Howard Gardner , Deborah Meier , Kate Montgomery , None

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drawing from his own remarkable experience as a veteran classroom teacher (still in the classroom),… read more

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11. The Summer Book Club

By: Susan Mallery

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The rules of summer book club are simple: •  No sad books •  No pressure •  Yessssss, wine! … read more

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12. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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13. By Invitation Only

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

3.86

Format: None pages, Audio CD

In this thoughtful, timely, humorous, and bighearted tale, perennial New York Times bestselling aut… read more

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14. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

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15. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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16. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Cover of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

17. 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
  • teaching
  • education
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18. The Shadow Wand (The Black Witch Chronicles, #3)

By: Laurie Forest

4.07

Format: 554 pages, Unknown Binding

HER WORLD-ALTERING SECRET CAN’T BE HIDDEN MUCH LONGER Elloren Gardner hides the most powerful se… read more

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19. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

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"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

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20. 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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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of The Big Kahuna (Fox and O'Hare, #6) by Janet Evanovich

21. The Big Kahuna (Fox and O'Hare, #6)

By: Janet Evanovich

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch, and a missing unicorn. Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare ha… read more

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22. We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight thei… read more

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

23. 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
  • teaching
  • education
"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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24. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of The Demon Tide (The Black Witch Chronicles, #4) by Laurie Forest

25. The Demon Tide (The Black Witch Chronicles, #4)

By: Laurie Forest

3.83

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Nothing can stop the demon tide.... Newly exposed as the Black Witch of Prophecy, Elloren Gardne… read more

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"The same way it always happens,"

-Laurie Forest, The Demon Tide (The Black Witch Chronicles, #4)

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

26. 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
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L. Cohen

27. Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

By: Geoffrey L. Cohen

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for The Next Big Idea Bookclub • Book of the Year Selection Behavioral Scientist and Great… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
"The overwhelming conclusion across a large body of studies is that personality matters less than we think while the situation matters more than we think."

-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

"When people reflect on harsh events in their lives, it's important that they write or talk and not just think. Thinking doesn't provide the narrative closure that writing or talking does, and it ofte…"

-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

"The impact of personality was overridden by whether the employees at the company perceived social norms that favored speaking up. If a company were interested in getting people to speak up, they'd be…"

-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

"The students on campuses with such a [Confederate] statue had higher levels of implicit racial bias. This finding speaks to the haunting effects of historical expressions of racism. Not only do these…"

-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

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28. The Joy of Reading

By: Donalyn Miller

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What reading experiences have entertained you, provoked you, taught you, inspired you, helped you t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America by Cara Fitzpatrick

29. The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

By: Cara Fitzpatrick

3.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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30. Start. Right. Now.: Teach and Lead for Excellence

By: Todd Whitaker

4.03

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Are You Ready to Take the First Step Toward Excellence? What does it take to be the very best teach… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • leadership
Cover of Lead from Where You Are: Building Intention, Connection and Direction in Our Schools by Joe Sanfelippo

31. Lead from Where You Are: Building Intention, Connection and Direction in Our Schools

By: Joe Sanfelippo

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Level Up Your Leadership with Intention, Connection, and Direction School communities are full of … read more

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  • education
  • leadership

17 best-selling nonfiction books like Start. Right. Now.: Teach and Lead for Excellence by Todd Whitaker

Transform Your Habits

Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning

Peter H. Johnston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Sean Covey , Chris McChesney , Jim Huling

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Five Love Languages of Children

Gary Chapman , D. Ross Campbell

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Kids Deserve It: Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking

Todd Nesloney , Adam Welcome

3.77

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21 must-read fiction books like The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan

Transform Your Habits

The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki

4.11

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