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NAPT staff is working to upgrade all of our communication and database systems. It is our top priority to ensure we have members' full and accurate information and are able to communicate effectively with you while also providing the tools and resources you need to excel in your profession. This is an exciting initiative please and we are committed to ensuring a seamless transition.
You can help! As we prepare for the transition to our new management system we're working to ensure the information we currently have is accurate and up-to-date. Please take a few moments to log in to your membership profile on the NAPT website. There you can review and edit your information, including any NAPT Professional Development Courses (PDS) and certifications you've completed. To review and edit your profile:
- Log in to the Members' Only Section of www.napt.org
a. Enter user name and password — contact NAPT headquarters if you need assistance.
- Select "My Information" to review your personal information
a. To edit your information, select "Edit/View
Information," make the necessary edits, and then "Save"
- Select "My Professional Growth" to review your professional development courses and certifications
a. To update PDS courses and/or certification information, please contact NAPT headquarters.
If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us in NAPT headquarters. Staff looks forward to hearing from members, so call 800.989.NAPT (6278) or email janna.smeltzer@napt.org.
| Upcoming FREE NAPT Member Webinars
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- Wednesday, June 22 @ 1pm ET: A Leader's Strength — The 5 Disciplines of Powerful Influence — Register today!
Speaker: Scott Peto, Owner/Operator, Chick-fil-A @ Monticello Marketplace (VA)
- Wednesday, July 27 @ 1pm ET: Hiring, Keeping or Terminating Employees: Rules to Know and Follow — Register today!
Speaker: Douglas Gerhardt, Partner, Harris Beach PLLC
- August 18 — Back to School with the Yellow Bus — Registration Coming Soon
Speaker: Mike Martin, Executive Director, NAPT
- September 28 — School Bus Draggings: A Preventable Occurrence — Register today!
Speaker: Peter Lawrence, Ed.D., CDPT, Director of Transportation, Fairport CSD (NY)
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| Celebrate the industry through NAPT awards program
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NAPT
Applications for NAPT Awards Available Online
Looking to honor a colleague for helping make school transportation the safest, most effective way for 26 million children to get to and home from school each day? Do so by submitting a nomination for one of NAPT's six national awards!
NAPT Driver Training Award (sponsored by IC Bus) — The NAPT Driver Training Award rewards school districts with exemplary driver training programs. Submit an application online now.
NAPT Continuing Education Award (sponsored by Thomas Built Buses) — The NAPT Continuing Education Award enables individuals to access NAPT's education and training programs, both online and in-person. Submit an application online now.
NAPT Specialized Transportation Award (sponsored by Q'Straint / Sure-Lok International, LLC) — This award was established to give special recognition to an individual or school system that provides exemplary service to students with specialized transportation needs. Submit an application online now.
NAPT Heroism Award (sponsored by Blue Bird Corporation) — Our Heroism Award recognizes individuals that have performed an act of rare or exceptional character that reflects an uncommon degree of concern for the well-being of others, particularly if the individual demonstrated extraordinary skill or resourcefulness in saving or attempting to save someone else's life at considerable risk to self. Submit an application online now.
NAPT Distinguished Service Award — The NAPT Distinguished Service Award was established to recognize an individual who has performed exemplary service for or on behalf of NAPT at the state and/or national level. This is the second highest honor NAPT can bestow on an individual or company. Submit an online application now.
NAPT Hall of Fame — Induction into the NAPT Hall of Fame is the highest honor NAPT can bestow. Honorees must meet the highest standards of personal and professional integrity, including distinguished service to both the industry and the Association. Click here to see the NAPT HoF guidelines.
Please consider nominating someone you know for an NAPT Award today.
If you have questions, feel free to contact NAPT Awards Committee Chair Theresa Anderson at thanders@comcast.net, co-Chair Jerry Milliken at Milliken.jerry@gmail.com or NAPT headquarters at 800.989.6278.
| Billingsley Family Offers National 'Brandon Billingsley Memorial Continuing Education' Scholarship
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NAPT
During the 2015 NAPT Summit in Richmond, VA, Kristen Billingsley, Owner of Heavy Duty Bus Parts/UltraLED announced the creation of the Brandon Billingsley Memorial Continuing Ed Scholarship, sponsored by the family in memory of her late husband Brandon. Now, she is pleased to announce the details of the annual scholarship.
The recipient of this scholarship will be awarded the following:
- Registration fee to attend the NAPT Summit held in the same year as applied for
- Hotel accommodations for up to five (5) nights (generally Friday through Tuesday) as reserved by NAPT
- $150.00 meal allowance for meals not covered by the conference (must provide receipts at end of conference)
- $500.00 Mileage/Flight reimbursement with receipts
The application can be found on the NAPT website.
| 2016 National School Bus Safety Week posters available
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NAPT
October is months away, but now is the time to order your 2016 National School Bus Safety Week posters. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis, NAPT has a limited quantity of posters ready to be distributed. Download the form and order your posters today.
National School Bus Safety Week is an active and evolving public education program and an excellent way to address the importance of school bus safety. Designed to promote school bus safety, school districts throughout the country observe School Bus Safety Week — held during the third week in October each year (Oct. 17-21, 2016). This year’s theme is "Bully Free Zone!"
| New NAPT member benefit: discount on financial planning services
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In an effort to continue providing cutting-edge, valuable benefits, we’ve partnered with Waddell & Reed to offer a 20 percent discount on financial planning services. Open to all members, this new benefit is designed to help you identify, prioritize and work toward your financial planning goals and objectives. So no matter where you are in life and your career, discover how Waddell & Reed can help you plan for life’s events and achieve personal retirement goals.
For more information about this exclusive NAPT member benefit, visit the website or contact Mark Naginey at mnaginey@wradvisors.com.
| State associations offering NAPT PDS courses @ annual conferences
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Arizona (TAA), Georgia (GA), Virginia (VAPT), Colorado (CSPTA), Missouri (MAPT), Maine (MAPT), and South Carolina (SCAPT) provide variety of educational sessions for members
TAA is offering four NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) courses at their conference in June 2016:
- PDS 201: Business Writing
June 20 – 8 am – 12 pm
- PDS 208: Parent, Administrator, Board and Public Outreach
June 20 – 1 – 5 pm
- PDS 302: Budget Development
June 20 – 8 am – 12 pm
- PDS 702: Personal Skills for Managers
June 20 – 1 – 5 pm
GAPT is offering two NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) courses at their conference in June 2016:
- PDS 701: Introduction to Leadership & Management
June 21
- PDS 304: Data Driven Decision-Making
June 21
- PDS 901: School Transportation Security Assessment
June 22
Please note, to register for the courses at GAPT’s conference, please visit gaptonline.org.
VAPT is offering two NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) courses at their conference in June 2016:
- PDS 901: School Transportation Security Assessment
June 22 – 8am – 12pm
- PDS 902: Crisis Communication
June 21 – 1 – 5pm
CSPTA is offering two NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) courses at their conference in June 2016:
- PDS 202: Presentation Skills
June 23, Part 1: 10:45am-12:15pm and Part 2: 3-5pm
- PDS 203: Communication Skills for Transportation Professionals
June 24, 9:15am-1:30pm
MAPT is offering four NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) courses at their conference in July 2016:
- PDS 301: Basic School Transportation Accounting
July 14 - 1 – 5pm
- PDS 501: Overseeing a Fleet Maintenance Program
July 14 - 1 – 5pm
- PDS 801: Special Needs Transportation Orientation
July 12 – 1 – 5pm
- PDS 805: Managing Behaviors of Students with Special Needs: Transportation Challenges
July 14 - 1 – 5pm
MAPT is offering one NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) course at their conference in July 2016:
- PDS 304: Data Driven Decision-Making
July 19, 8am – 12pm
SCAPT is offering three NAPT Professional Development Series (PDS) courses at their conference in July 2016:
- PDS 701: Introduction to Leadership & Management
July 20 – 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
- PDS 801: Special Needs Transportation Orientation
July 17 – 1 – 5 pm
- PDS 805: Managing Behaviors of Students with Special Needs: Transportation Challenges
July 19 – 8 am – 12 pm
Receive a course completion certificate from NAPT and register today. The cost of the PDS courses for credit and the course completion certificate is $20/member and $50//non-member.
If you have any questions regarding the NAPT PDS certificate registration, please contact NAPT headquarters at 800.989.6278.
If you have any questions regarding any of the state association events, please contact them directly.
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Brookings
Data has always been an inherent part of the educational process — a child's age, correlated with her grade level, tracked to specific reading or math skills that align with that grade, measured by grades and tests which rank her according to her peers. Today this data is ever more critical. Education professionals seek understanding from what the data reflect on the teacher's role and influence, evaluating student outcomes across classrooms. Parents seek similar measures on individual K-12 schools and districts, and desperately seek insight into the value of education at individual colleges and universities to justify the cost or debt incurred.
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Rasmussen Reports
Voters continue to have little faith in U.S. public schools and think it's mainly up to parents and the students themselves to succeed. The survey of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted on May 23-24, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.
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Newport Buzz
The Rhode Island Senate approved legislation sponsored by Sen. Adam J. Satchell to phase in seat belts on school buses, and require school districts to adopt implementation plans that include bus evacuation drills. The legislation would require that all new school buses purchased or leased in Rhode Island be equipped with seat belts for the driver and every passenger seat. Upon the purchase of one or more school buses equipped with seat belts, each school district would be required to prepare a plan for the implementation and use of seat belts, including evacuation drills in case of emergency, within one year of the receipt of the new buses.
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Education Week
There's been a lively debate recently about funding gaps inside districts between schools with low levels of state and local aid and their wealthier counterparts. But is a major factor in intradistrict inequality being overlooked by many people? If you ask Bruce Baker, a Rutgers University professor who studies school finance, the answer is yes.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
If you're a principal, you likely spend time working with parents and other family members of your students. Too often, much of that time is negative, coming after a major discipline problem or crisis. On the positive side, another critical part of the principal's job is leading a coordinated school-wide effort to interact with families in ways that support students, families, the school and the larger community. Every student in your building has a family and comes from a community, both of which influence the student. And teachers and administrators interact with families and the community every day — sometimes in direct ways, sometimes indirectly.
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NJ.com
A system that allows parents to keep track of their children and whether they made it off and on the school bus has expanded into New Jersey, with Vineland adopting Zonar's Z Pass this year. Vineland Public Schools began using Z Pass at five of its elementary and preschool facilities. By September, the district plans on using the service at all of its schools — with the exception of the high school. "It helps give parents a peace of mind and know where their kids are," said Joseph Callavini, transportation coordinator for the district.
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KSLA-TV
School is out for the summer. But when students return to class, there could be better protections in place, not just when they're on the school bus, but when they step off the bus. In November of 2015, 5-year-old Maliyah Steadman was hit by an SUV moments after she stepped off her Caddo Parish school bus.
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MindShift
While many educators now recognize that "noncognitive" factors that affect how a student thinks about his or her abilities are important to learning academic content, there's little consensus about how teachers can help build those qualities. Some districts are trying to include noncognitive factors in measures of school effectiveness, while other schools focus on certain character qualities as part of their mission.
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The Recorder
Amid a budget season that has seen cuts recommended to the School Department's proposed budget by both the mayor and the Ways and Means Committee, administrators think some money — about $150,000 — can be saved if the department's transportation policies are more strictly enforced. But, they told a school board subcommittee, doing so could have a variety of adverse effects on the district's operations and student safety.
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Education Week
The top two congressional Democrats on public school issues in Congress are telling the U.S. Department of Education to create robust and clear accountability regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act that ensure states and districts are looking out for the interests of students from low-income backgrounds and other historically disadvantaged students.
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Transporting Children with Disabilities, 5th Edition,
by Dr. Linda F. Bluth, is available for purchase. NAPT members may purchase the Handbook for $19.99, plus shipping. The nonmember rate is $29.99, plus shipping.
To order your copy, please email NAPT Member Services Specialist, Brianne Peck at Brianne.Peck@napt.org today! To learn more about the new Certification in Special Needs Transportation (CSNT) click here.
Transporting Children with Disabilities, 5th Edition contains new and updated information, including useful definitions of transportation and related special education terms as well as characteristics of children with special needs and special considerations for transporting children with special needs. This popular publication also explains the legal basis for special needs transportation in accordance with the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 and contains information about new Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act regulations.
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