Vermont Safe Routes to School Annual Safety Educators' Training & Conference.

Welcome
New SRTS grantees are required to send at least one safety educator to the event, to participate in the WalkSmart BikeSmart training track. Additional team members in attendance are welcome to attend the parallel track. Additional breakout sessions, available to all participants will profile successful models for education and encouragement from schools around Vermont.

THIS TRAINING IS PART OF OUR COMMITMENT TO THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES

• To promote the advancement of Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education in school communities by sharing best practices and unique models used in the field.

• Prepare Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Educators in Vermont’s Safe Routes to School grantee sites and beyond to implement WalkSmart/BikeSmart Vermont!

• Increase the number of schools in Vermont who implement one pedestrian safety lesson (WalkSmart) in the fall, and one bicycle pedestrian lesson (BikeSmart) in the spring of each year.

• To launch the annual data collection process on the reporting of participation in safety education via the implementation of WSBS.

• To promote the advancement of Safety Education in school communities by sharing best practices and unique models used in the field

TRAINERS
JoEllen Tarallo-Falk
Alice Charkes
Becka Roolf, Going Green L3C
...with additional panel presentations by experienced Safe Routes to School participants from throughout Vermont.