As a thank you to our readers for another wonderful year, we’re giving away a $200 Free Spirit gift certificate!
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I’m a free spirit because I write like I’m famous.
I liked your pinterest page.
I liked the page on Facebook
I am a free spirit because I refuse to be anything else.
I am a free spirit because I think things through and make my own choices rather than relying on what people tell me to do. As Jimminy Cricket said, let your conscious be your guide.
Working with the fabulous Challenge Program at St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School makes me a Free Spirit! I have the awesome opportunity to help children develop their gifts and take learning to the highest level for each child! A friend told me about Free Spirit and this is my greatest and latest “go to” for curriculum support materials.
Not following a set path makes me a free spirit!
Something that makes me a free spirit is going with the flow. I don’t panic when things aren’t going as planned, I work with it!
“Nobody is free till everyone is free.”
I follow my heart and that makes me a free spirit 🙂
Fun & effective books to encourage the Free Spirit in our grandchildren. I am a free spirit & encourage my grandkids & kids I come in contact with to celebrate their individuality and to think for themselves. These books help with that 🙂
I encourage all my students to be Free Spirits and learn everything they can even if they have to learn in their own way!!!!
I’m a free spirit who encourages the students in my Student Success Skills class to think outside the box.
I follow Free Spirit on Pinterest
I liked the page on Facebook.
I am a free spirit because I make my own path!
I follow Free Spirit on Pinterest.
I follow Free Spirit on Twitter.
I follow Free Spirit on Facebook.
I am a free spirit who looks for solutions to students’ problems that are outside of the box. Free Spirit’s resources support me in the creative problem solving.
I’m a free spirit, because each kid’s needs, intellectual and emotional, are unique, but all children respond to well written material and humor!
I am a free spirit because I am learning to be in the moment and accept whatever comes my way.
I follow you on pinterest
I follow you on twitter
I like you on FB
I’m a free spirit because I try not to let problems get me down.
Found the pinterest.
Got twitter.
Found the Facebook page to follow.
Social emotional learning is too often neglected in education. Currently schools address bullying reactively when really, they need to educate proactively by including social emotional learning in Common Core. I wouldn’t call myself a free spirit but I would like to free the spirits of others by starting with children in elementary school.
I am a Free Spirit because I happily invest in your material so that I might be a better educator.
I AM A FREE SPIRIT BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN LOVE, COMPASSION AND DIVERSITY!!!
The more quality resources, the more learning and engagement happens!
I am learning hoe to go with the flow and know that sometimes you have to go where the children lead you.
inam a free spirit when I am living in the present moment.
Free Spirit allows me to meet my pupils half-way, so to speak, through a ‘mediator’, the creative products of the company…. really helpful all round. Thank you!
I’m a free spirit because I can understand the pain others experience and find ways to lift their burdens.
I’m a free spirit as I learn to accept and celebrate my and others’ entire self: physical, emotional, cultural, intellectual, developmental.
I follow you on Pinterest. 🙂
I follow you on Facebook. 🙂
I follow the desires of my heart.
I follow you on Pinterest.
I follow you on Twitter.
I follow you on Facebook.
What makes me a Free Spirit is I enjoy working with my students and I feel I learn more from them than they do from me!
Free Spirit always has the best resources for working with all types of learners!
I follow you on facebook!
I follow you on Pinterest!
I follow you on Twitter!
I am a free spirit who works with special needs children. I love to visit your book store, love reading new and inspiring information to help my journey to help.
I am a child therapist and find Free Spirit Publishing books and other resources so helpful in working with children of all ages! Cheers to social and emotional learning!
I’m a free spirit because I recommend books to parents and use the books in our children’s counseling program.
I liked Free Spirit on Facebook.
The way I’m committed to help people be happier, because I believe that when you commit to something, that’s the freest act of all: me deciding to do something, with all my heart and soul.
I am a free spirit working in schools with children aged birth to 21 years, and helping each student to reach their potential regardless of illness or disability. Each child is good at something and needs to learn and grow and discover what their talents and interests are. Free Spirit publishes the books I wish I could write to celebrate the ability and dignity of every unique individual. I appreciate the representation of children of various abilities and colors in the illustrations, so all kids know they are equal partners in our global society.
Gratitude makes me a free spirit
Free Spirit has such creative materials which allow me to be productive and effective while still nurturing my inner child!
I am a free spirit because I live everyday to the fullest
I follow you on twitter
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My free spirit comes out when I am able to have uninterrupted me time where I can be creative.
By being a free range librarian.
I am a go with the flow type of person. When things are out of my hands, I adjust to them and keep going.
I love to just be in the present, enjoying everything around me, taking stock of what is happening right at the moment! I love to point out to my children and my students the wonders that are happening around us at any moment. Many times, I will stop them in the hall and ask them to look outside or take a breath of the air! It really makes a difference when you can enjoy the simple pleasures!
My love for life!
I’m a free spirit when I am flexible in where the day takes me. I may plan to work with one student, but another more pressing need may arise! Flexibility allows me to be a free spirit!
I follow Free Spirit on Pinterest.
I liked Free Spirit on Facebook.
I am a free spirit because, as a middle school counselor, I highly encourage free, creative thinking in my students. I do my best to encourage each of them to use their imagination, take their own path, and follow their heart. In turn, they inspire me to be more spontaneous, energetic, and free-thinking!
I am a free spirit that meets each child where they are at and help them to become a productive and happy young adult.
I am a free spirit as a parent! I love working with my children one on one in our home. The products available allow me to do so many things with my children – all in a fun way where they don’t realize they are learning!
We receive a daily dose of GOD’s grace and mercy and because of that gift I work hard to keep Him in my view and freely show love to everyone He sends my way.
I’m a free spirit because I let my students be free spirits.
I am a free spirit when I am work with kids and see their amazing individuality come out!
I am a free spirit who is teaching other free spirits! I facilitate a caregiver engagement program for kids aged birth to 5. We have so much fun!
I’m free spirit when I,m present
I’m a free spirit because I respond to the needs of my students.
I am a free spirit when I am in nature
I’m a free spirit because I want all children to feel confident and respected!
I follow Free Spirit on Pinterest.
I follow Free Spirit on Twitter now! Can’t wait to see you in my feed and join any chats you might host.
I’m a fan and liked FS on FB!
I am trying to learn to be a free spirit by following a student’s lead in what they need emotionally, physically, spiritually and academically in our behavior class. I encourage them to share their concerns, fears, loves, feelings verbally and in writing. We enjoy talking about how we all have issues that we have to deal with and coming up with strategies to help us all be more successful at school and at home.
I like Free spirit on FB
I’m a free spirit when I let the direction of my counseling sessions be determined by my elementary-aged students. When I first started, I’d really script my sessions to make sure that I was using my tools to help fix situations. Now I work to put the tools aside and let the students do the fixing with me as a guide by the side. It’s been a challenge, but my free spirit is working to “let it go!” Thanks for a fun reflection!
I’m a free spirit because I actively follow the passions and whims of learning as an adult.
I’m a free spirit because of my job. I am forever flitting about to address multiple issues at once, every day! I work with adolescent parents & their children in a school and child care setting. There is much to do. It keeps me young & free spirited!
I’m a free spirit in that I don’t follow the crowd but do what feels right to me! I have done that in my teaching, my personal life, and in my leadership of numerous organizations!
I’m a free spirit because I’m spontaneous.
I’m a work in progress, but I know I care deeply about gifted children and put my effort into improving their lives and experiences.
I am a Free Spirit when I help our students learn to be the best they can be!
I’m a free spirit in that I don’t like all the traditional ways that we teach children such as filling in worksheets with required comments or the “right answer”. I love the stories and curriculum that Free Spirit Publishing offer because they aligned with my teaching philosophy of every student matters and we all learn differently.
I’m a free spirit as I try hard to follow the children’s lead in my preschool classroom and have our conversations be less teacher directed and more student lead. Also when choosing themes to study we try to include the children’s interests.
I’m working toward being more of a free spirit…as someone who likes to plan out vacations, I’ve given more control to my children about the route we take (developing map and navigation skills) and encouraging them to investigate and choose activities to do at our destination.