"Judy is a great advocate for physical education as well as classroom learning. She understands the correlation between physical activity/movement and increased learning."  

Co-worker/teacher

"She spends countless hours finding new and exciting ways to teach her kids in different ways. She makes sure each student understands his/her strengths by teaching them about the different types of giftedness."

Co-worker/teacher

"Judy challenged my child to expand her thinking, use more logic when debating, increase her comfort level when speaking in front of a group, explore more authors, write stories and poems beyond anything she had ever written before."

Parent

"Ms. Fitz helped me realize that my daughter learns things in a totally different way than I do (verbal vs. visual)." 

Parent

"Ms. Fitz uses the computers all of the time, even though she is really old."

Student

"I am not a parent who is impressed by walking into a classroom that is quiet, maybe that is because I am a mother of three boys and quiet is often unusual in my house, but a classroom where dialogue is encouraged and quirky obsessive behaviors are acknowledged and accepted."  

Parent

"Ms. Fitz would let me choose my own project and say 'Have fun with it'."  

Student

"Ms. Fitzpatrick meets the kids where they are. In other words, she doesn’t want them all to be the same, or do the same thing, or do things in the same way.  Let’s face it; having all the kids do things the same would make her life a whole lot easier.  She sees each child individually, as though they were the only child in the class.  But more than seeing them individually, she works with them individually, allowing them to thrive in their own way and on their own terms." 

Parent