5.2 Safe Routes to Schools Presentation

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EXISTING PROGRAMS The Pequot Lakes School District has been actively working towards providing safe and inviting spaces around school campuses for students.This foundation of encouraging student travel safety provides a valuable baseline for expanding programs to encourage more students to walk and bike. PROGRAMS ALREADY ACTIVE AT PEQUOT LAKES SCHOOLS: • Walking and bicycling field trips • Enhanced driver,bicycling and pedestrian safety curriculum. • Bike giveaway • Community Education programming • Student involvement in community events • Walk! Bike!Fun!Curriculum • High Five Friday's PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS Conversations with school and district staff,caregivers,students,community members,and city and county staff led to the following program recommendations. Programs were tailored to meet the needs,capacities,and interests of the community and were prioritized based on existing programs,input from local stakeholders,the extent to which the program would serve priority equity populations,and the readiness of the school to launch the program. RECOMMENDED PROGRAMS INCLUDE: • Consider ways to continually improve and best utilize Crossing Guards • Continue In-School Curriculum&Activities such as Walk! Bike! Fun! • When walking and biking isn't an option, consider identifying safe and strategic Park& Walk • Consider ways to ensure that underserved neighborhoods have equal access to public facilities. • Continue meeting as a SRTS planning team. • Continue conducting the parent survey annually to track changing perceptions. • Continue conducting in-class-student tallies to track walking and bicycling numbers over time • Develop Suggested SRTS route map. • Continue to build on existing events and find new Walk&Bike Field Trip events. • Promote observance of Walk and Bike to School Days • Walking School Bus and Bike Train that would include local PTA and school staff 22 I Minnesota Safe Routes to School t tr