Our children and young people today are exposed to more and more conflicting messages about, growing up, "being cool" and what's "right" and "wrong". Schools and families are faced with challenging decisions as they try to teach young people to make good choices.

Teaching young people to be responsible and self-disciplined is central to Jim Fitzpatrick's, Developing Responsible Behavior in Schools programs. It is a positive, constructive way to teach young people, K-12, to make good choices and be responsible without tying the school and classroom up in volumes of policies, rules and procedures. The climate in the school improves, it becomes a safer and more civil place to be. This leads to less destructive and violent behaviors. The responsibility for proper behavior and discipline shifts from the adult to the student where it belongs!

Jim brings over twenty years of experience to his in-service programs, keynotes and seminars. He draws on his roles as teacher, assistant principal, principal and superintendent to illustrate how schools can improve student behavior. Developing Responsible Behavior in Schools is designed for educators who want to improve how they deal with difficult and alienated students. Equally important, the program helps the staff foster responsible behavior and discipline in ALL students.

"If more policies and rules were the answer don't you think we would have discovered them by now? It is time to stop the bickering and truly solve the problems in our schools!"

Developing Responsible Behavior is based on sound principles that allow a school to consistently enforce rules with equal treatment for all students. A recurring question the adults need to ask is, "What are we teaching the students with our behavior?"