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This year Free Spirit Publishing celebrates 30 years of meeting kids’ social, emotional, and educational needs. As a special thank you to our readers, we’re kicking off the yearlong celebration by giving away a $300 Free Spirit gift certificate!
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Gifted Kids Survival Guide!
I liked Free Spirit on Facebook
I am following on Pinterest
I am following Free Spirit on twitter
I would love anything from the Adding Assets series
Survival Guide for Gifted
I liked Free Spirit on Facebook!
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Goodbye bully machine
I would love a book from the “Weird” series!
I would love Vicious…
The Struggle to be Strong could really benefit the students i work with.
Don’t have a twitter account, but am gladly following you on Pinterest now.
As a mom of four kids that are all different from each other, I could love many of your books. Definitely some teen books geared to giving them direction, I liked several in the Character Education section, and the Core Curriculum. It would be fun to select several books with them choosing which ones interest them too!
I love What Do You Stand For! The poster and magnets always attract lots of comments and lead to great discussion.
Random Acts of Kindness would be my choice
What on Earth do you do When someone Dies, this is the book on my wish list. Kids in my school have experienced death, I would like to share a book like this to them.
I also like Free Spirit on Facebook, because I really LIKE Free Spirit!!!
Choosing just one book to be at the top of my list is not easy. I will say it is The Teen Guide to Global Action
How to Connect with Others (Near and Far) to Create Social Change
Barbara A. Lewis
because I work with youth and they crave making a difference and it is great ot have examples and more ideas!
The Laugh and Learn series sounds great!
I’m working on opening a preschool and have had my eye on this program. It is on my wish-list.
Service Learning in the PreK–3 Classroom
Book with CD-ROM
The What, Why, and How-To Guide for Every Teacher
Vickie E. Lake, Ph.D., and Ithel Jones, Ed.D.
I would like to start adding the Activities for Building Character and Social Emotional Learning book series to my resources at school.
I would LOVE the new book series Weird, Dare, and Tough! They would be perfect additions to my counseling library!
I would love to add the Bully Free series to my guidance library.
I would like to use the “Weird Book Series” for getting across the Anti-Bullying Message in the different roles of bystander, victim, etc. to my 2 k-5 schools! Thanks, Lisa Detrych
Teaching Kids With MH and LD in the Regular Classroom
and a million others.!
I like Free Spirit on Facebook
A full set of the In a Jar’s would be my wish list item – they are so helpful with my tween, the college students I teach and the preschoolers in our lab school. I even find the stress and quotable quotes invaluable in my own life!
Teaching Kids with Mental Health and Learning Disabilities in the Regular classroom by Myles Cooley. The needs of the students we have in our classroom continue to grow. Teachers are needing to add tools to their toolboxes to help addess and meet those needs to help all our students be successful.
I follow Free Spirit on Pinterest.
I follow Free Spirit on Twitter.
I have liked Free Spirit on Facebook
It is challenging to find/create and differentiate effective curriculum for my self-contained EBD classroom. We have done successful units using Fighting Invisible Tigers, The LD Survival Guide for Teens and How Rude. I am currently teaching a leadership unit using Everyday Leadership for teens. Books on my wish list include: Impulse Control and Advancing Differentiation.
The Laugh and Learn Series. As a principal, I buy a set of the whole series each year. Throughout the year, I lend them to parents and kids…and they don’t make it back! Thanks for the great books!
I have recently purchased the entire Learning to Get Along series, including the interactive software. I am a kindergarten teacher, and I realize that the books and digital resource in this series aligns perfectly with the character education initiative within our school district. I love the illustrations in the book, and the teachers guide in the back of each book.
Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom Professional Development Multimedia Package by Susan Winebrenner and Dina Brulles is my top wish for my rural elementary school. My position with grades 4-6 gifted students may be cut to .4 (two days/week) next year. (No mandate for gifted education in our state). This package will allow me to offer manageable professional staff development to teachers, while taking into account their very full days under the Common Core Standards. Having attended a Susan Winebrenner workshop some years ago, I know this package will capture teachers’ interest and address in practical, insightful ways their inner desire to address students’ potential. Best of all, seeing current examples of strategies in action will give our teachers more tools with which to address gifted students’ needs. Keeping fingers crossed!
What Do You Stand For. For Kids.
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The book on my top wanted list is The Weird Series. I think it is so important to build a caring community where everyone is working together.
Any book in the learning to get along series! They’re great!!
I would love to have Susan Weinbrenner’s professional development set that goes with Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom. Gifted programs are being cut in many school districts, and it’s going to be more important than ever that general education teachers are trained and equipped to provide an appropriate education for our brightest and best. For a single title, I’d like to have “Perfectionism: what to do when good enough isn’t good enough.” Requests for information and resources related to perfectionism have been increasing with the pressures put on today’s students to achieve.
I would love to have the book , “Teaching Kids to Be Confident, Effective Communicators”
(Book with CD-ROM)! Our school is applying for a grant to become a digital media magnet with a focus on written and oral communication. This would be a great tool for our teachers.
I LOVE Free Spirit! I often buy several copies of books to give parents whose kids are struggling. Books like “How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger” and the survival guides for kids with LD, ADHD, etc. have been incredibly helpful. I also give copies of your catalogs to parents who ask for help in working with their children.
Don’t Behave Like You Live In A Cave
Heart of Warrior by Jim Langlas
Liked you on FB. Liked you a lot in non-virtual world before then!
The Social Story Book.
I LOVE your stuff! use it LOTS in my classes (I try to purchase a new book a year since our dept budget can barely get the texts we need every year)- some of your books overlap well into the high school years 🙂 I also incorporate a lot of mindfulness into my classes – so, combined with your works, it’s GREAT work and conversation that we have going on! I’d love to add:
Too Stressed To Think
Impulse Control
The Jar Series (we have one and it’s used LOTS!)
Everyday Leadership Series/Set
Global Action Cards & Guide
thank you thank you thank you!!!!
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders – Our system is working on a LSTA grant on autism specturm disorders so this book is perfect!
I would like to put the book “Vicious” on my wish list!
Doing and Being Your Best
Too Stressed to Think
these would be my top choices – I already make use of a number of your books in my classes… I have mostly high school students, but a lot of the books overlap well. I have also been practicing mindfulness with them and combined with your materials, we have LOTS of great stories and stress – less days… 🙂 We’d love to have more of your materials in our room!!!
thank you!!!!
I have been a fan of Free Spirit for as long as you’ve been around. I, too, have especially enjoyed Stick Up for Yourself and an oldie, but goodie – Writing the Days. I LOVE the jars—use them now as a principal all the time!
As a health teacher in a middle school as well as an advisor to a girl’s anti-bully group and SADD I am interested in almost every book you have. I’ve purchased many including Your Smarter Than You Think, the Middle School Confidential series, Fighting Invisible Tigers, and my most recent purchase, the updated Psychology for Kids, Vol 1. I have volume 2 and I love it but I am really excited by the activities in this book. I have your books on leadership as well. I would love to build a book shelf of books on social skills for the kids to read. You are fantastic and please keep the great titles coming. Thank you.
I love so many, but I am enjoying “Helping Young People Learn Self-Regulation”!
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I followed on Twitter…
I followed on Pintrest….
I love the New Social Story Book by Carol Gray. I am a school psychologist and find it sooo useful!
I like Free Spirit on Facebook
I am following Free Spirit on Twitter
I am following Free Spirit on Pinterest
Teen Cyberbullying Investigated
Teaching Kids to Be Confident, Effective Communicators is at the top of my list. Love Free Spirit!!!
Bully Free Classroom
Activities for Building Character and Social Emotional Learning
Love them all, however……….Wishing for the Weird Series and Helping Young People Learn Self-Regulation!
Speak up and Get Along and Making Choices and Making Friends from the Adding Assets Series for Kids
Building Everyday Leadership in All Kids 🙂
Definitely The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens eBook
$39.95
Jean Sunde Peterson, Ph.D.
Lori Comallie-Caplan lcomallie@gmail.com
The Teenagers Guide to School Outside the Box
How do I choose just one book? I would love the Weird series for my older kids, but would also like the Learning to get Along series for 1st/2nd graders or the Best Behavior series for my early preschool/kindergarten kids.
Expert Approaches for Gifted Learners
Vicious: True Stories by Teens About Bullying – I would LOVE to read this book as I believe many people do not beleive or in denial that bullying even exists… maybe it’s just the actual “word”… some people think someone has to physically hit someone to be ‘bullying’… but it sooo much more than that and happens in our school every single day. I would like to read this to better educate those around me. thanks!
I love so many of your books -one of my favorites is What Do You Stand For?
I have counted on your publishing company for as long as you existed! I have been counseling parents and teachers…and students over the years. I am always referring them to your wonderful resources in meeting the various needs of these unique children.
It is hard to narrow it down to ONE book, but “this week” I would say: Teaching Kids with Mental Health & Learning Disorders in the Regular Classroom, $35.99 by Myles L. Cooley Ph.D.
Coming close second however is: The New Social Story™ Book — Over 150 Social Stories™ That Teach Everyday Social Skills to Children with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome, and Their Peers; by Carol Gray $34.99.
Thank you for being there!
And I’m following you on Pinterest…thanks for this contest! Love Free Spirit!
I am following you on Twitter
I liked y’all on Facebook ;o)
Sharing time
The Gifted Teen Survival Guide
I would love the Laugh & Learn series!
Taking the Grrrr Out of Anger and Don’t Behave Like you Live in a Cave!
Survival Guide for Teachers of Gifted Kids
Any book by Julia Cook.
Liked on facebook too!
How to Take the GRRRR Out of Anger. I used this in a middle school anger management group and it was extremely effective! I have my masters in secondary school counseling but am currently working for a non profit. Thus, I love the resources that Free Spririt has, fits my limited budget but allows me to purchase resources that will last a lifetime!
Helping young people learn self regulation
Anything about What Do You Stand For? Books or games, they are all invaluable. I work for Monroe 1 BOCES in Rochester NY. If I win, I will be adding these to our library. All kids can contribute!
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders
I pinned Free Spirit on Pinterest.
I would like to put a copy of Speak Up and Get Along in every classroom in my school!
I have several books and always want to add to my collection. Right now, I’m eyeballing the Real Teen Voices collection. The three titles, Pressure, Rage, and Viscious, would be beneficial for my students with emotional disabilities.
I would love the “Weird” Series (Weird, Dare & Tough).
I would choose RTI Success as one of my top picks from Free Spirit Publishing!
I use bibliotherapy for so much of my guidance plan. I especially like the Best Behavior and Learning to Get Along Series books and use them regularly. As I look to expand my library, you carry so many awesome titles that my very limited budget would take years to aquire. Thanks for this opportunity!
I’m interested in any of the Cash in on Learning books, especially the one on Twice Exceptional Kids, because that seems to be at least one third of my class for the last five years.
I like them all!!
STICK UP FOR YOURSELF
Any book about respect is at the top of our list!
Please review the book “Someone Special For You To Know” it would be a great fit for Free Spirit.
Cluster grouping handbook. A school wide model.
Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom; I loaned it out and never got it back, so I would really like to get another copy!
I love 3 of the books (The Survival Guide for Kids with LD, The Survival Guide for Kids with ADD or ADHD and The Behavior Survival Guide for Kids)… I use them with my 5th graders to tell them about their disabilities and how they can help themselves as they go onto middle school. The kids really get into reading the books; they are springboards for discussions about the issues they are dealing with … thanks for these books!
I also follow you on Twitter.
“Help There’s a Toddler in the House” . Would be a great book for using to provide parent workshops for toddlers/pre-school parents.
I have “liked” you on Facebook for a long time!
I would love to be able to purchase Susan Winebrenner’s special professional development edition of “Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom,” which includes videos of classroom teachers demonstrating the best strategies. What a wonderful tool for providing professional development at a time when our GATE budgets have been slashed…or taken away altogether!
My favorite book is Doing Good Together. It gets kids (and adults) thinking about the needs of others.
Liked on Facebook!
Following on Pinterest! Great Boards!
My Favorite Free Spirit Books are the Toddler Tools series books, especially the ones on manners, calming down, sharing and listening. I work in early childhood and share them all the time with early care providers and parents.
The books that are at the top of my list are the ones about sharing and being nice, not bullying, being friends, taking turns…. The books are in a series and I forgot the name of the series….. But my son loved me reading them to him, oh and It’s alright to be scared was one of those books in that series too…..
I liked Free Spirit Publishing on Facebook.
The New Social Story Book by Carol Gray is at the tippy-top of my wishlist!
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Helping Young People Learn Self-Regulation is on my wish list!
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The Survival Guide for Teachers of Gifted Kids
Understand and Care
The Kid’s Guide to Social Action
Liked on Facebook.
My current top pick is “ADHD in HD”. My 12 year old loves this book. It’s written and illustrated by a talented young adult with ADHD and LD, whose style is over-the-top wacky and energetic. My son is inspired by him.
Accept and Value each Person
Following you on Pinterest.
Be the Boss of your Stress
About Teens and the Law
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Following on Pintrest!
I love your books so much and could use a gift certificate! The Impulse Control book is on my wish list for my 14 year old and Hands are not for hitting for my 2 year old!!
Liked on Facebook. 🙂
I have many Free Spirit books and games, I use them all the time in my work with children. I currently have my eye on the Wierd series.
My favorite book by far is “Making Every Day Count: Daily Readings for Young People on Solving Problems, Setting Goals, and Feeling Good About Yourself.” Every day for my group of 1st-3rd grade after-schoolers, I would have a quote from the book posted and read daily affirmation to them. We started every afternoon meeting with it. It really went a long way in helping them feel good about themselves and being proud of who they are.
Following on pinterest! 🙂
Teaching Kids with Mental Health & Learning Disorders in the Regular Classroom
Already Liked on Facebook many months ago!!!
I have many of the Free Spirit books and use them a lot! I also use the In A Jar materials and my students really enjoy those! On my wish list is the Get Out! book by Judy Molland. Free Spirit is my favorite publisher!
The 15 book collection by Cheri J. Meiners is definitely on the top of my list!! She is amazing and my students love the social skills books!!!
Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens, Everyday Leadership is perfect for my high school library. It is exactly what we need to support our positive behavior system.
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I’m really looking forward to the new relaease, Building Everyday Leadership in All Kids. As a school counselor, I’ve been looking for ways to create opportunities for our students to work together while doing something kind for others and this book will do just that.
Early Education Books are Fabulous!! I really like Bye- Bye Time!!!
I have much of the Free Spirit Library…and LOVE almost everything I have (especially The Weird Series)! I facilitate a before school Kindness Club that I’m sure would benefit greatly from Doing Good Together, Growing Good Kids, or Service Learning in the PreK-3 Classroom!
Peace,
Lisa
It’s so hard to pick just one. Top of my lsit currently? Helping Young People Learn Self-Regulation. The Adding Assets set and leader’s guide is a close second. 🙂
I would love a copy of “The New Bully Free Classroom” – my students and i are studying bullying and writing essays on the topic. Breaking down myths, looking at the reality, learning how to move on once it happened.
Following on Pinterest!
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder (& their parents.) – we could use all the survival knowledge out there!
Following on Twitter (IggyMommy)
Liked on Facebook!
I love and use your Learning to Get Along Series for a group called Chatter Matters. Ages 5-8. We have a sensory warm up, read one book a week and play a cooperative game from the back of the book! It’s wonderful! The kids love it too!
Impulse Control by Caselman and Cantrell is on my wish list!
my favorite book that I would like to have right now is How to Talk to an Autistic Kid. I feel it is something everyone should know how to do. Also my very favorite products that I love are the In-a-Jar products. I think these are all wonderful!!
The Weird Series looks fun! I love the Laugh and Learn Series….very engaging books to use with my 4-6th graders as a school counselor!
Favorite: So many to choose from, but an oldie but goodie for us is GIFTED KIDS SURVIVAL GUIDE!
The book at the top of my list is Dr. Richard Cash’s Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century. I also attended the Differentiated Instruction webinar and found it very informative. I also liked Free Spirit on Facebook.
Followed on Pinterest (zanderbear)
Followed on Twitter (zanderbear)
Liked on Facebook
The Adding Assets Series for Kids
In a jar series
Learning Disabilities and Student Mental health
Of course there are more…..mostly related to high school issues and transitioning as my daughter and her friends are in this age group.
Fighting Invisible Tigers and so many more! I love your resources!
On my wish list: ADHD in HD, In a Jar products, Building Everyday Leadership in All Kids
Feet are not for kicking by Elizabeth Verdick
My wishlist: What Are My Rights?
Q&A About Teens and the Law (Revised & Updated Third Edition)
Such a timely subject, for teens growing up in cyberworld . . .
Liked on Facebook
Adding Assets series!
Following on Pinterest
Following on Twitter!
Adding Assets series! Too many choices…
I use so many of your books but I really like the Adding Assets series and anything with the Developmental Assets!
Anything from the Adding Assets Series for Kids. 🙂 I love, love, LOVE your resources and am always recommending them when presenting professionally!
I just “liked” you on Facebook!
I am looking more at the ‘In a Jar’ series being at the top of my list!!!!!
I love all your books! The Middle School Confidential Series is excellent, and I’m having great success with the Temper Tamers Jar during counseling sessions. Thank you!
Stick up for yourself! by Gershen Kaufman. A positive message.
Following you on Pinterest too.
There are too many to list! Weird is on the list.
Following you on Twitter
I “liked” your FB page a long time ago 😉
I would love to get a classroom set of Doing and Being Your Best. I already have sets of two other books in the Adding Assets series and love to use them in my middle school classes!
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders is a fabulous resource!
Following Free Spirit on Pinterest.
Followed on Twitter!
Do I have to pick just one?? So many! Right now “But why can’t I” is topping the list!
I LOVE ALL YOUR BOOKS!
Liked on Facebook 🙂
Building Strong Writers in Middle School would be one of my first picks, since the ability to communicate effectively is a key to lifelong success.
Don’t Behave Like You Live in a Cave By: Elizabeth Verdick
So many great resources! I’d love to try the Zach Rules series. Sounds about right for our students.
Lori
_Expert Approaches to Support Gifted Learners_ would be my first choice although _Talk with Teens About What Matters to Them_ is a very close second.
Tough! Weird! or Dare!
What Do You Stand For? For Teens by Barbara A. Lewis is at the very top of my wish list! By encouraging and developing positive characteristics in our young people we address many of the negative issues in the world. Acting with good character prevents bullying, destruction of surroundings, lack of tolerance, lack of truthfulness, lack of motivation, and lack of integrity just to name a few. Teens often slip through the cracks with so much attention being given to younger children. I will help develop our future generation in any way that I can and it appears that this book would be a wonderful resource. Thank you for your wonderful offerings!!
Too Stressed to Think?
A Teen Guide to Staying Sane When Life Makes You Crazy
Annie Fox, M.Ed., and Ruth Kirschner
Helping teen with the high school to college transition, goals, handling depression, anxiety and stress.
Zach Apologizes is at the top of my list right now! I love Zach Gets Frustrated!
I just liked Free Spirit on Facebook.
Too Stressed to Think?
A Teen Guide to Staying Sane When Life Makes You Crazy
Annie Fox, M.Ed., and Ruth Kirschner
Helping older teens with high school college transitions and goals.
What Kids Need To Succeed
Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom looks like a great, and very useful, title!
The Cluster Grouping Handbook: A Schoolwide Model
I’m following all of your boards on Pinterest – Sherea http://pinterest.com/vejauan/
On Those Runaway Days is at the top of my list- great book!
I would love to win the book and CD, ‘Talk with Teens About What Matters to Them Book with CD-ROM’.
I followed/ pinned you on pinterest
What a great fun contest and I love your wall on pinterest glad I found it!!
I am most interested in the character-building books What Do You Stand For (for Kids) and the one specifically for teens. I am also hoping to use The Complete Guide to Service Learning to enhance the current programming at my independent school in Lake Placid, NY. Thanks, Free Spirit!
Also followed you on facebook so you said to leave a different comment for that, which I will say I love your jars!!! They are so amazing to use in the classroom.
I follow Free Spirit on Pinterest.
I “Liked” you on FB! -Sherea
Hands are not for hitting book.
I like Free Spirit Facebook page.
The book that is top of my wish list is RTI Success by Elizabeth Whitten.
What Are My Rights?
I would love RTI Success, or any of the books on Differentiation.
Stick Up For Yourself