5 must-read education books like Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day by Mica Pollock

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Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day

By: Mica Pollock

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An essential guide to transforming the quotidian communications that feed inequality in our schools…

If you liked the education plot in Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day by Mica Pollock , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

By: Lisa Damour

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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2. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

By: Daniel T. Willingham

4.04

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. W… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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3. Human Acts

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more

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4. David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Format: 882 pages, Paperback

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more

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"Trifles make the sum of life. "

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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5. American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more

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6. Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)

By: Kim Holden

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Secrets. Everyone has one. Some are bigger than others. And when secrets are revealed, Some will he… read more

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7. The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

By: Mel Robbins

4.33

Format: 57 pages,

Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends and mentors who have pushed yo… read more

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8. Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom

By: Pete Hall , None

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

This essential resource explores how trauma disrupts learning and explains how to create a safe spa… read more

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9. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more

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"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

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11. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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12. We Play Games

By: Sarah A. Denzil

3.51

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

When the rules turn deadly, winning is everything. Only available from Audible, a gripping psych… read more

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13. Mad Love

By: Wendy Walker

3.57

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

"Twisty and totally unpredictable, Mad Love will have thriller fans raving. Brilliantly narrated by… read more

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14. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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15. The Quiet Girl

By: S.F. Kosa

3.83

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Good girls keep quiet. Quiet girls won't stay silent forever. When Alex arrives in Provincetown … read more

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16. The Silence Between Us

By: Alison Gervais

3.86

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Deaf teen Maya moves across the country and must attend a hearing school for the first time. As if … read more

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17. 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
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18. The Real Deal

By: Caitlin Devlin

3.43

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it harder to keep a secret when the world is watching – or to tell the truth when no-one is list… read more

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19. 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
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Gary Noesner

20. Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

By: Gary Noesner

3.92

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

An enraged man abducts his estranged wife and child, holes up in a secluded mountain cabin, threate… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. What's Mine and Yours

By: Naima Coster

3.56

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family-and the… read more

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"For all her boldness, Jade was good at citing risks, naming all the things that could sabotage a life. In the weeks after a homicide in the neighborhood, elementary school kids did worse on tests. Te…"

-Naima Coster, What's Mine and Yours

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22. When We Were Friends: A Short Story

By: Jane Green

3.55

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Jane Green comes a riveting story about a friendship that tu… read more

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23. Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day

By: Mica Pollock

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An essential guide to transforming the quotidian communications that feed inequality in our schools… read more

Similar categories in Mica Pollock's Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day book and Mica Pollock's Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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24. Streamlining the Curriculum: Using the Storyboard Approach to Frame Compelling Learning Journeys

By: Heidi Hayes Jacobs

3.33

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

A game-changing resource for educators looking to elevate their unit and lesson plans, increase stu… read more

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Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

Lisa Damour

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

Daniel T. Willingham

4.04

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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Jimmy Casas

3.86

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4.23

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Vera Brosgol

3.91

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