SRTS Coaching Action Network Webinars

The National Center for Safe Routes to School partners with America Walks to offer a series of SRTS-related Webinars. The Safe Routes Coaching Action Network (CAN) Webinars are designed to educate individuals and organizations on topics that will assist with successful outreach efforts.

Past Webinars

Safe Routes to School 101: Information and Resources to Jumpstart Your Program

What is Safe Routes to School (SRTS)? How can I get a program started in my community? Who can I partner with? This webinar helps to answer these questions. The webinar provides basic information and resources to help get your Safe Routes to School program off the ground or enhance your exisiting program.

Presented by Diane Lambert, National Center for Safe Routes to School, and Robert Ping, Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Navigating Change: How to Use the Updated System for Accessing your Parent Surveys and Student Travel Tallies

In early June, the National Center for Safe Routes to School updated the online data system used by local SRTS programs to enter the Parent Survey and Student Travel Tally questionnaires and to view summary reports of those data. This webinar provides an overview of the updated system, highlighting features that are particularly relevant to users from local programs. Topics covered will include: creating a local program, adding schools to that local program and assigning Travel Tallies and Parent Surveys to each school; accessing the data summary reports; allowing local program administrators to share access to their program's data with other users; covering the new way local programs should prepare Parent Surveys and Travel Tallies that they will be send to the National Center for processing; and exploring other features of the system.

Presented by Austin Brown, MPH, MRP, Program Manager, National Center for Safe Routes to School

Safe Routes to School Mini-Grants: How a Little Can Go a Long Way

This webinar explores lessoned learned from three recipients of a $1,000 mini-grant from the National Center for Safe Routes to School. In the spring semester of 2010, twenty-five schools received mini-grants for local projects that encourage student creativity in Safe Routes to School.

Pam Barth from the National Center provides an overview of the mini-grant program and representatives of the three schools discuss how the mini-grant helped their programs. Scott Bordon, parent and volunteer coordinator, discusses Lyndale Community School's (Minneapolis, Minn.) SRTS program which focuses on establishing well-organized, parent-led walking school buses. The goal of their efforts is not only to improve the safety of students already walking but also to increase the number of students walking and bicycling to school, help students and families develop relationships, build bridges across cultures, promote more active parent involvement, and in turn help to develop a strong community. Julie Harris, Activate Omaha Outreach Coordinator, discusses Saddlebrook Elementary School's (Omaha, Neb.) program including the development of a student-led program that educates fellow students about the science of bicycling and its environmental and health benefits. The program incorporates fun experiments and demonstrations using bicycle themed equipment, including a brain-shaped Jell-O mold and a bicycle blender. Erin Sheel, Intercity Transit, discusses the development of Madison, Roosevelt and Pioneer Elementary Schools' (Olympia, Wash.) anti-idling and anti-speeding campaign for parents at these schools. The program uses speeding audits and air quality monitoring.

Ensuring Your Safe Routes to School Program Includes Children with Disabilities

This webinar addresses strategies for making your program inclusive: how to work with children with disabilities, what kinds of instruction they need and practical advice on involving students, their parents and special education professionals.

Presented by Amy Rauworth, National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD); Jennifer Toole, National Center for SRTS, Toole Design Group; and Melody Geraci, Active Transportation Alliance

Environmental Measures for Safe Routes to School: Understanding the Basics of Air Pollution

In this webinar, Pat Childers, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency walks us through a basic introduction to the different sources and types of air pollution and how they relate to Safe Routes to School. This basic overview teaches you how to determine the types of air pollution that are of the greatest concern in your area. Mr. Childers also discusses various school-related air pollution programs being implemented by EPA.

Mr. Childers presentation is followeded by a ten minute overview of the work Dan Powell is doing with schools in the Greenville County area to reduce idling, improve air quality, and increase walking and bicycling to school. Dan also discusses how to involve students in the process of evaluating air quality changes.

What Does It Take To Get Drivers To Yield: Engineering Measures That Work

Engineering experts share their extensive knowledge and understanding of pedestrian safety and traffic control devices to address these questions. They discuss innovative devices and the latest research on thier effectiveness as well as more standard devices and their appropriate use.

Presented by Mike Cynecki, Traffic Engineering Supervisor for the Phoenix Street Transportation Department and Charlie Zegeer, Associate Director for Engineering and Planning at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center; Director of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

Connecting Safe Routes to School and Health

This webinar, presented by Arthur Wendel, M.D., M.P.H., Healthy Community Design Initiative, The National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, discusses how SRTS could provide a host of health benefits.

School Bicycle & Walking Policies: Addressing Policies that Hinder and Implementing Policies that Help

Four presenters provide an overview of recent research regarding policy barriers, discuss the experience of Murch Elementary School in successfully changing policies, and provide information on resources and model policies.

The Real Cost of School Siting

Presented by Matthew Dalbey, US EPA & Renee Kuhlman, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Learning By Example from an Award Winning SRTS Program
Presented by Jim Kornish, Bear Creek Elementary, SR2S Program

SR2S: Teens Go Green Program
Presented by Aviva Joseph & Gwen Froh, Marin County Bicycle Coalition, Teen Coordinators

Safe Routes to School: A National View of Parent Attitudes and Student Travel
Presented by Austin Brown, National Center for Safe Routes to School

Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act within Safe Routes to School
Presented by Lois Thibault, US Access Board

Safe Routes to School in rural communities
Presented by Cookie Leffler, State SRTS Coordinator, Mississippi Department of Transportation

Engineering Treatments and Strategies for Safe Routes to School, Part II
Presented by:
David Parisi, PE, TE, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting
Michael Cynecki, PE, Traffic Engineering Supervisor for the Phoenix Street Transportation Department

Engineering Treatments and Strategies for Safe Routes to School, Part I
Presented by:
David Parisi, PE, TE, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting
Michael Cynecki, PE, Traffic Engineering Supervisor for the Phoenix Street Transportation Department

Turning Walk to School Day into a Year-Round Pedestrian Program
Presented by Sonja Atkins, Coordinator, Safe Kids Greater Sacramento

SRTS Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education
Presented by Somilia Smith, Project Coordinator, Mayor Daley's Ambassadors

SRTS Liability Issues
Presented by Jakob Helmboldt, VDOT and Tamberly Sufi, Toole Design Group

Taking it to the streets: Urban SRTS and New Jersey’s demonstration project
Presented by Elise Bremer-Nei, NJDOT and Tiffany Robinson, THE RBA Group

How to organize and run an SRTS event (step by step)
Presented by John Sweeney, PTA

Engaging Local Media to Promote Safe Routes to School
Presented by Katy Jones, National Center for Safe Routes to School

Physical Activity's Positive Effects on Learning
Presented by Rae Pica, Children's Physical Activity Specialist, Moving & Learning

Sidewalk Safety Smarts: WalkBoston's Guide to Safety Training for Second Graders
Presented by Karen Hartke, WalkBoston

Building Community Support for SRTS Programs
Presented by Dan Burden, Walkable Communities

Who Cares About Safe Routes? How to Make the Case in Your Community
Presented by Kit Keller and Linda Tracy, APBP

Starting a SRTS Program with Zero Funds
Presented by Ian Thomas, Executive Director, PedNet Coalition

"Collaborating with Low Income Communities of Color"
Presented by Tina Zenzola, WalkSanDiego, Safe and Healthy Communities Consulting

"Getting Your Story Out"
Presented by David Levinger, The Mobility Education Foundation