Best Motivation For Students - April 2024

Even on Your Worst Day, You Can Be a Student’s Best Hope

As Manny Scott travels the world speaking to students and educators, he meets young people whose stories sound a lot like his own a childhood that was marked by poverty, instability, violence, and despair until a few caring educators showed him how to find meaning in the classroom and gave him a glimpse of his own possibilities. So many kids he meets today need this kind of hope and practical assistance. But with all that is already on educators' plates, what can an individual teacher do to help traumatized children believe in themselves, succeed in school, and graduate prepared for work and l... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416624910
• ASIN: 1416624910
• ISBN: 1416624910
• Manufacturer: Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal).If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01KFJGT50
• ASIN: B01KFJGT50
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive

Kevin Horsley Broke a World Memory Record in 2013...And You're About to Learn How to Use His Memory Strategies to Learn Faster, Be More Productive and Achieve More SuccessWith over 200,000 copies sold, Unlimited Memory is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller and has been the #1 memory book on Amazon for more than two years. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages including French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian.Most people never tap into 10% of their potential for memory.In this book, you're about to learn:How the World's Top Memory Experts Concentrate and Rem... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00I3QS1XQ
• ASIN: B00I3QS1XQ
• Manufacturer: TCK Publishing

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Now with an excerpt from the authors' new book, THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP. Combat, the most intense and dynamic environment imaginable, teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand on the most vi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250183863
• ASIN: 1250183863
• ISBN: 9781250183866
• Brand: St. Martin's Press
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

A Year of Positive Thinking: Daily Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

Transform your life with daily inspiration, affirmations, and meditations from A Year of Positive Thinking.Yes, you can change your life by changing your thoughts. In A Year of Positive Thinking, you’ll transform your mindset and motivate positive life changes one thought, one day, and one year at a time.From day one, this book teaches you the power of positive thinking through quick and digestible affirmations based in positive psychology, neuroscience, and personal development. Spanning one full year, from January to December, these daily meditations guide you towards visualizing and livin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1641522410
• ASIN: 1641522410
• ISBN: 1641522410
• Manufacturer: Althea Press

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

• ASIN: B01069X4H0
• ASIN: B01069X4H0
• Manufacturer: Mango

The 48 Laws of Power

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinge... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140280197
• UPC: 725638107234
• ASIN: 0140280197
• ISBN: 0140280197
• Brand: Penguin Putnam
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

In her instant, multi-month New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People).The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique co... [Read More]

• ASIN: B010MH9V3W
• ASIN: B010MH9V3W
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

April 2017 marks 20 years since Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad first made waves in the Personal Finance arena.It has since become the #1 Personal Finance book of all time... translated into dozens of languages and sold around the world. Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1612680194
• ASIN: 1612680194
• ISBN: 1612680194
• Brand: PLATA
• Manufacturer: Plata Publishing

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most profound scientific information with ancient wisdom to show how people like you and me can experience a more mystical life.Readers will learn that we are, quite literally supernatural by nature if given the proper knowledge and instruction, and when we le... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0746RN3G7
• ASIN: B0746RN3G7
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Hay House Inc.

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

• ASIN: B004IK92RA
• ASIN: B004IK92RA
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Outliers: The Story of Success

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316017930
• UPC: 352749561657
• ASIN: 0316017930
• ISBN: 0316017930
• Brand: Back Bay Books
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 3rd Edition (Applications of Motivational Interviewing)

This bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--and vividly demonstrates what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples illustrate the "dos and don'ts" of successful implementation in diverse contexts. Highly accessible, the book is infused with respect and compassion for clients. The companion Web page provides additional helpful resources, including reflecti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609182278
• ASIN: 1609182278
• ISBN: 1609182278
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“Marie Kondo, but for your brain.” —HelloGiggles “Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend.” —Marc Andreessen Reading this book could change your life. The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be.Is happiness something you choose for yourself? The Courage to Be Disliked presents a simple and straightforward answer. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of nineteenth-century psychology alongside Freud a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078MDSV8T
• ASIN: B078MDSV8T
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

The book that started the Quiet RevolutionAt least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society. In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307352153
• ASIN: 0307352153
• ISBN: 9780307352156
• Brand: Susan Cain
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Bringing Out the Best in Students : How Legendary Teachers Motivate Kids

Originally published: Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press,

• UPC: 45964356

Bringing Out the Best in Students : How Legendary Teachers Motivate Kids

Promote student excellence by sustaining a positive learning environment through effective classroom management

• UPC: 37808055
• Model: 9780803967571
• Color: Multicolor

Vocabulary Games for Any Word List: 15 Easy-to-Play Games That Motivate Students to Master Any Word List and Expand Their Vocabulary (Best Practices in Action)

Students practice and expand their vocabularies with these 15 easy-to-play games based on familiar formats like Tic-Tac-Toe and Bingo. Includes step-by-step instructions for small and large-group games. Covers these key vocabulary areas: sight vocabulary for

• UPC: 13016189