Safe Routes To School

Cycles of Change & Safe Routes to Schools Alameda County

Bicycle Safety Training Program Description

The Bicycle Safety Certification Program is a 2 hour in-class and a 6-8 hour on-the-bike training. Students learn how to perform a bike safety check, adjust helmets, use hand signals, read traffic signs, maneuver through intersections and safely navigate their school’s neighborhood by bike. We provide the bikes and helmets. The direct service we provide serves as a hands-on training for Physical Education teachers and after-school program providers who are interested in running the program in the future. Safe Routes to School’s hope is that this program will encourage the use of bikes as a means of sustainable, affordable transportation in your school community, as well as help the students at your school develop healthy lifestyles from a young age. Therefore we ask that you commit to all three phases of our program.

Our program has three phases:

In phase one, we provide all the equipment, resources and staff necessary to run the program, free of charge. This includes working closely with one or more school site educators to train and prepare them to run the program in the future.

In phase two, an educator from your school site takes over the teaching of the curriculum under our guidance, support and presence at the school. Access to our equipment is still provided for free but hauling of the equipment becomes the responsibility of the school.

In phase three, we support you in implementing a sustainable Bicycle Safety Certification program that is run by your school site by providing up to eight hours of free technical assistance and support.

We have space for new schools to sign-up for the Fall of 2009 and Spring of 2010. For more information contact: safecycles@cyclesofchange.org or sr2s@transformca.org, or call 510-740-3150 ext. 323.

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