Jim Fitzpatrick works with schools throughout the world that want to teach kids to be Responsible, Self-Disciplined and held Accountable. He has presented in-service programs, seminars and delivered keynotes at schools and conferences in over forty states and twenty countries. Jim understands schools and how they work. He has been a classroom teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent. Especially as an assistant principal and principal he spent years chasing, loving, caring, lecturing, cheering, detaining and suspending students. Jim always believed, and still does, that students need to be held accountable for their behavior. He employed all the typical rules, consequences, "first offense…second offense", punishments, and rewards until he was exhausted.

As a new principal in a school, Jim was determined to find a more positive and productive way to deal with students. He believed in being tough, but it was now a matter of how we would be tough. Students needed to learn new behaviors. The focus would be on Teaching Responsibility to Students. The results were outstanding! The need for punitive practices was eliminated. The drop out rate dipped below one percent. Suspensions were reduced dramatically. Students were being held accountable and responsible for their actions! The process became integrated into the culture of the school.

Ten years ago Jim started Fitzpatrick Associates and now works full time consulting, conducting workshops, training and providing in-service programs in schools, K-12, finding more constructive and better ways of dealing with the young people in our schools.