1. MPS Safe Routes to School is funded by a grant from Minneapolis Health Department and is part of Safe and Healthy Students which is located in Operational and Safety Services.
Jenny Bordon, Safe Routes to School, ,

3. WHY WALK or BIKE?
Over the past 40 years, rates of obesity have soared among children of all ages in the United States, and approximately 25 million children and adolescents—more than 33%—are now overweight or obese or at risk of becoming so.
Kids are less active today, and 23% of children get no free time physical activity at all.
The prevalence of obesity is so great that today’s generation of children may be the first in over 200 years to live less healthy and have a shorter lifespan than their parents.
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6. “Researchers have been examining the association between physical activity and academic achievement for almost 50 years…[research] consistently showed that physical activity had a significant positive association with students' cognitive functioning.”
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7. Eight schools have implemented a fall and spring, weekly BSW (start date in parentheses): Northrop (Sept, 2012), Loring (Sept, 2013), Lyndale (Sept, 2013), Keewaydin (March, 2014), Wenonah (March, 2014), Green Central (Sept, 2014), Pratt (March, 2015), and Seward (April, 2015).
157 staff from these eight schools took the short, anonymous survey staff to compare staff observations of students on BSW days to research about the positive impact of walking and biking to school.
Staff are overwhelming positive about the bus stop and walk and its impact on children and the school day.

8. On the BSW day, children arrive more alert and ready to learn.

9. 94% of descriptors chosen were positive
On the days of the bus stop and walk children seem (check all that apply)
94% of descriptors chosen were positive

10. The BSW has been good for our school.
94% agree or strongly agree

13. An example of a half mile to Hale

14. Contact Us
MPS Safe Routes to School is funded by a grant from Minneapolis Health Department and is part of Safe and Healthy Students which is located in Operational and Safety Services.
Jenny Bordon
MPS Safe Routes to School
Julie Danzl
Safe and Healthy Students
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May 4th is Bike and Walk to School Day. Watch for a group ride that afternoon originating at the Davis Service Center.