1. This is an Resource to Help You Build a Transportation Education Continuum
Review all slides to understand how transportation education applies to schools and districts
Think about the tiers of a transportation education continuum
What are you doing across each tier?
What can you being doing across each tier?

2. Building a Continuum of Transportation Education
Transportation education creates a culture, accompanied by a coordinated set of practices, to connect students, families, educators, pupil transporters, and public transportation professionals to create a system by which students have knowledge, access, and choice regarding a continuum of accessible transportation options across grade levels, and especially as they transition from school to postsecondary education, employment, and independent living settings.

3. Principles of Transportation Education
Embedding content about accessible transportation options in curriculum and instruction across grade levels
Providing professional development to educators and other school professionals regarding accessible transportation options for students
Engaging students and their families in discussions regarding accessible transportation options throughout a student’s education
Ensuring that students and their families have the knowledge and skill to choose the transportation option that is best aligned with their needs, preferences, and postsecondary goals

4. Transportation Education
Building a Continuum of
Transportation Education
Intense Services
-Travel Training;
-Para transit eligibility
-OT/PT/Behavioral Interventions
Moving up the Tiers
Less numbers of students
More defined service
Greater time & resource commitment
Specialized training and competence of providers
Focused data collection – around student performance
Focused Transportation
Assessments & Education
-Travel Training Assessments
-OT/PT Behavioral assessment
-Travel Instruction – Familiarization
- Links to IEP goals and transition supports
District-Wide Transportation Education
Provide professional development to educators around accessible transportation supports
Engage families and students in transportation education
in early grades
Integrate transportation content across grade levels and curriculum (ELA, Math, geography, etc.)
Rely on transit for community-based experiences
Invite transit into schools and programs
Establish linkages across educators, pupil transportation, and public transportation sectors
Align transportation education with other reforms RTI. College and Career Readiness, etc.
Provide travel instruction - orientation

5. Exercise Does a model like this make sense?
Use the template on the next slide to record your activities across tiers.
Think about other reforms – multi-tiered systems, college and career readiness – how can transportation content align?

6. What Are you Doing at Each Tier? What Can you be Doing at Each Tier?
Current Activities
Future Activities
What do you need to make it happen?