How to organize Walk to School Day - tips from Briarcliff School in Kansas City

Featured guest for this month's Missouri Safe Routes to School Coalition conference call is Meg McFarland of Briarcliff Elementary.

Meg is one of the state's pioneers in Safe Routes to School and Walk to School Day programs.

Briarcliff Elementary Walk to School Day in 2011

Meg has organized the Walk to School Day event at Briarcliff Elementary in Kansas City for several years.  Meg will talk about how she organizes and promotes Walk to School Day at Briarcliff and give us all some tips about organizing our own local walk to school days.

Download Meg's Powerpoint Presentation

• Powerpoint format (ppt)
• Acrobat format (pdf)

More resources for organizing your local Walk to School Day

• How to Organize a Walk to School Day powerpoint presentation by Kara Sergile (PDF format)
• Walk to School Day Planning Materials for Missouri provided by PedNet, Columbia
• Walk to School Day planning materials from WalkBikeToSchool.org

Tuesday's Missouri SRTS Coalition Teleconference

Anyone interested in organizing a Walk to School Day is invited to join the teleconference:

9:30am-11:00am on Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Conference Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3300
Participant Access Code: 728255#

Teleconference Agenda

 1. Organizing your own Walk to School Day - Meg McFarland, Briarcliff Elementary
      Walk to School Day - Oct 3
      Walk to School Month - October
      More info/register your events: http://www.walkbiketoschool.org/

 2. MoDOT SRTS Program - Jeff Cremer, MoDOT SRTS Coordinator
     - SRTS Call for Projects this fall
      - Our current position on SRTS with MAP-21
      - MoDOT direction on MAP-21 today

 3. Update on SRTS in the new federal transportation bill, MAP-21 - Brent Hugh, Missouri SRTS Coalition