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Do you have the Parent Survey for Biking and Walking to School translated into languages other than English?
Currently, the National Center for Safe Routes to School provides English and Spanish language versions of the Parent Survey. We also maintain a page on our webiste that contains additional language options of the Parent Survey.
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Safe Routes to School Noteworthy Practices Guide: A Compendium of State SRTS Program Practices
In 2005, the United States Congress established the national Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program in Section 1404 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). Through a combination of engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation strategies, the program was developed to address traffic safety, traffic congestion and air quality issues around schools, while also acknowledging the health benefits of active school travel.
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Evaluation: Parent Survey Other Language Options
Please note: These Parent Survey questionnaires are offered in addition to the English and Spanish versions of the survey. The surveys below were provided to the National Center for Safe Routes to School by local SRTS programs across the country. The National Center cannot verify the accuracy of translation or the completeness of the "Other Language" questionnaires.
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Evaluation: Parent Survey Online Surveying Option
The National Center for Safe Routes to School offers local SRTS programs the ability to use an online version of the Parent Survey to gather parent responses. Because the National Center's online data system now has the capability for parents to complete the Parent Survey directly online we have discontinued offering local SRTS programs the Survey Monkey option to accomplish this task.
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Working Together to Advance Safe Routes to School
Have you ever been confused about who does what to advance Safe Routes to School?
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Great Ways to Include Bicycling in Your SRTS Program
Your walking program has taken off, but how can you get more kids to bike to school? Integrating bicycling into your SRTS program is a great way to extend the reach of your program and help foster a lifetime of healthy bicycling habits. This webinar will highlight several schools across the country who have taken their programs beyond bike trains to include other fun and innovative ways of getting kids on their bikes. Presenters:
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Pierre, South Dakota: Walk to School Day Event
Introduction Pierre, S.D., is a rural town with approximately 13,000 residents. One of its local elementary schools, Jefferson Elementary School, has more than 400 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. In 2003, the Jefferson Elementary Parent and Teachers Association (PTA) wanted to implement a program designed to encourage healthy behavior in the students. The PTA decided that yearly Walk to School Day events would be the best encouragement program for the students.
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Lessons from Florida's Crossing Guard Program
Originall presented Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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How to Build a Walking School Bus Program from Grass Roots Up: Best Practices in Design, Implementation and Dissemination
In 2005, the PedNet Coalition of Columbia, Missouri, tried something new.  Four parents, whose kids attended different elementary schools, each agreed to recruit four or five other families in their neighborhoods, create a weekly parent rotation, and walk the kids 1-2 miles to school every day for four weeks.  These were Columbia's first Walking School Buses.
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Encouragement: SRTS Guide
Encouragement strategies are about having fun; they generate excitement and interest in walking and bicycling. Special events, mileage clubs, contests and ongoing activities all provide ways for parents and children to discover, or rediscover, that walking and bicycling are doable and a lot of fun. This chapter of the SRTS Guide provides a description of a sample of activities a community can create, a summary of how to conduct each activity, and examples of how communities are "putting it into practice."
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