Free resources
are available through the
Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc.
website. Learn the
skills to safely manage disruptive student
behavior on your bus…The
free resource pack includes one of each of the
following:
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“Preventing Problem Behavior on Your School Bus”
poster
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“Risks
of Restraints”
booklet
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“The Art of Setting Limits”
pamphlet
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“How to Prevent Problem Behavior on Your School Bus”
pamphlet
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“10
Tips for Crisis Prevention”
pamphlet
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The Kentucky Department of Education's Pupil
Transportation Branch is dedicated to the safe
transport of Kentucky's school children. |
Kentucky
Department of Education
Driver Training Program
The Pupil Transportation Branch currently has
over 675 state certified driver training
instructors. There are over 12,000 certified
school bus drivers statewide. All driver
trainers were required to initially complete an
intense four-day certification regimen with
additional annual update training. Kentucky is
nationally renowned for its driver training with
many states ...
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New- Free
Feds set to roll out bullying intervention training
for school
bus drivers
- June
2011 -
School
Transportation News
- The overview is
designed for transportation trainers and
administrators, and the full, four-hour course is
targeted specifically at school bus drivers. “It's
going to be designed to equip school bus drivers to
recognize
bullying behaviors among ...
The
training is fully-funded by the Office of Safe and
Drug-Free Schools and will be made available
free of charge to school districts across the
country.... |
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New -
More school bus safety tools now online...new school
bus safety webpage
– October 2011 - School Transportation
News -The National Highway Transportation Safety
Administration announced at the NAPT Annual Summit
that it has created a
new web
page dedicated entirely to
school
bus safety. This
extensive new resource is geared toward school
transportation ... |
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National Association for Pupil
Transportation - National School Bus Safety Week
- is always held the
third full week in October. The resource guides and
activity booklets can be used to reinforce each
year's theme. |
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Kids Page – School Bus & School Zone Safety
This website provides students with rules and
activities for being a safe bus rider.
Your
school
district probably has a
school bus behavior policy.
Your
bus driver's number one
interest is your
safety.
He or she will ask you to be on your
...
(SafeNY.com) |
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Aboutschool.com
is a good source for bus safety rules for students.
It has rules for the bus stop, on the bus, exiting
the bus… |
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Special Safety Concerns of the School Bus
…-
2010 -
Every weekday in the school year school
transportation systems in the United States operate
approximately 440,000 yellow school buses to provide
safe transportation for more than 24 million
school-aged children. This synthesis documents the
various safety issues faced by the school bus
industry. Safety issues include each aspect of
school bus operations, including the driver,
environment, equipment/technology, and
organizational design. Information was gathered
through a literature review and a survey on school
bus safety issues that was disseminated to a variety
of professionals associated with school bus
operations. …
(Transportation Research Board of the National
Academies) |
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New- NHTSA’s (The National Highway
Transportation Safety Administration)
Updated School Bus Driver In-Service Safety
Series is now available online at
www.stnonline.com/go/856 -
October 2011. The training covers such topics as
driver attitude and knowledge of bus routes,
emergency evacuations, highway rail grade
crossings, and loading and unloading, vehicle
training and student management, including
students with special needs. NHTSA has also
posted a Child Safety Restraint Systems on
School Buses training video on its website
at
www.stnonline.com/go/857. Six modules
covering the basics of child safety restraint
systems (CSRS) include specific information on
rear-facing and forward-facing seats and safety
vests. The training is available in English and
Spanish and is intended as an introduction to
proper use of CSRS in school buses and as a
refresher overview. |
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School Bus Driver
In-Service Safety Series
- School Bus Driver
In-Service
Safety Series. For Administrators and
Supervisors. Administrator Guide · For Pupil
Transportation Supervisors. Lesson Modules with
one section on
"Adverse Road Conditions"... (NHTSA) |
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Back-to-School: Hop on the
bus, Gus, with these safety tips
ConsumerReports.org -
School bus safety is—if you'll pardon the pun—a
two-way street. Take some time to teach children
the do's and don'ts of riding the school
bus.
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Bus Drivers and
Bullying Prevention
... NEA’s recently released report,
offers practical tips about what bus drivers can
do to prevent or intervene in bullying
situations. ... |
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