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Essential resources for schools to take the next step...
Web Resources
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National Center for Safe Routes to School - This website provides information about how to sustain a SRtS program along with successful case studies.
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School Administrator's Guide to School Walk Routes - The Washington Traffic Safety Commission's guidebook for how to develop and maintain school walk routes.
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Automobile Idling Reduction Program - Airwatch Northwest's excellent program to create an "Idle Free Zone" around schools is free of charge.
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International Walk to School in the USA - Register your school's Walk to School Day and receive incentives for the event and tips to keep your students biking and walking.
Articles
Downloads:
- Safe Routes to School Month Flier PDF - For wide distribution to students and families.
- Safe Routes to School Month Poster PDF - To post in visible locations to raise awareness of May as Safe Routes to School Month.
- Discover Your World: The Game PDF - A board game in which students make active trips to school in order to take a turn on the game. Not date-specific - can be used during May, for IWALK in October, or for any incentive program!
Brochures
Use these brochures to encourage parents to walk and bike with their children and increase parent participation in your school. Contact us to receive hard copies or download them here.
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Parents Make Choices - How parents can choose to walk to school with their children.
(Top front page photograph - PBIC Copyright)
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Parents Make Choices + Organizing a Walking School Bus How parents can choose to walk to school with their children, how to organize a walking school bus, and how to create a more walkable community.
(Top front page photograph - PBIC Copyright)
- It's up to YOU - How bicycling can keep children healthy and teach them good habits for a lifetime (available in English, Spanish, Somali, and Vietnamese).
Measurement and Evaluation Tools
- Car Observation Tally Created by Feet First in 2009, this data collection tool will help you quantify the issues you experience in the drop-off and pick-up zone at school.
- Car Count Tally This tool will help you count the vehicles that arrive at your school during the morning and/or afternoon rush. A great measure of your program success!
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