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[pic] Travel Plan: Goal 1

|Goal 1: |Safe Routes Focus |

| |Education |

|Edison High School will build the network of Safe Routes partners within the school and community. |Engineering |

| |Enforcement |

| |Encouragement |

| |Evaluation |

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|Background/Purpose: | |

|Edison is fortunate to have a fabulous Safe Routes Champion in the Green Coordinator staff member. She has a vision of a thriving Green community at Edison High| |

|School that continues long after she is gone. To that end she is building a network of support for Safe Routes efforts within the school and community. |Additional Resources and |

| |Materials |

| |Travel Plan Background Document. |

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| |District Parent Walk-to-School |

| |Workshop January 14th. |

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| |Steering Committee: MNDOT SRTS |

| |Lisa Bender. |

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| |Central Avenue Reconstruction: |

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| |projects/hwy65/ |

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|Action Steps/Timeline |What |Who/When | |

| |Form a Green Council of students committed to environmental and |SRTS Champion, MPS SRTS, student leaders—fall;| |

| |biking/walking/transportation efforts. | | |

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| |Add one additional staff and one local business to the team. | | |

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| |Share with the ELL bilingual staff about safe routes efforts. | | |

| | |SRTS Champion—January | |

|[pic] |Consider attending or having a student attend District parents’ safe | | |

| |routes workshop. |SRTS Champion, Green Council—winter | |

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| |Attend a parent meeting and describe future and potential Safe Routes | | |

| |efforts. Consider adding a Safe Routes to School link to the Edison | | |

| |High School website. | | |

| | |Green Council, MNDOT SRTS | |

| |Meet with elected official and/or District/City/State Safe Routes | | |

| |leaders regarding safe routes efforts and community connections (e.g. | | |

| |Central Avenue reconstruction, Lowry Bridge) |SRTS Champion--March | |

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| |Explore having student involvement in state SRTS MNDOT Steering | | |

| |Committee. | | |

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| |Add the names of the staff people who bike or walk to school to the | | |

| |Travel Plan Background & Network document. Add new network partners to | | |

| |document Add student leaders’ names to Travel Plan document. as well. | | |

|Evaluation |Inclusion Efforts | |

|Champion will add names and businesses to the Travel Plan document and continue to forge relationships and foster|YES. Add ELL staff to network | |

|student leadership and parent support. | | |

Travel Plan: Goal 2

|Goal 3: |Safe Routes Focus |

| |Education |

|Edison High School students will identify and address barriers to safe biking and walking to school for Edison Students. |Engineering |

| |Enforcement |

| |Encouragement |

| |Evaluation |

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|Background/Purpose: | |

|Part of the Green Council’s job is to identify why students are not biking or walking to safety to school and work to remove these barriers. The list is |Additional Resources and Materials |

|ongoing but so far includes safety—lack of helmets and lack of willingness to wear helmets, Crime, and theft is also an issue. Access--lack of u-lock, |Tips for Engaging Middle School |

|bicycles and bike racks also provide a barrier. On the plus side, a bike path runs in front of Edison. Nice Ride kiosks are located near the school. |Students: |

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| |efault/files/tips_for_engaging_middle|

| |_school_students_1.pdf |

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| |Agents of change: Understand who can |

| |help: |

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| |Community Ed, maintenance: |

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|Action Steps/Timeline |What |Who/When | |

|[pic] |Supply low costs helmets and work with partners to promote wearing |STRS Champion-August | |

| |bicycle helmets. | | |

| | |Green Council/SRTS Champion/MPS Safe | |

| |Apply for grants (Catalyst) and other find to support efforts. |Routes—October | |

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| |Establish a lock sharing program where students can check out quality|Green Council—winter | |

| |locks in the school library on a quarterly basis. | | |

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| |Identify community resources (Nice Ride, Trips for Kids, Venture | | |

| |North) that supply low cost or free bicycles. |SRTS Champion/MPS SRTS/Green Council—on going| |

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| |Identify community resources for low cost maintenance or maintenance |SRTS Champion/MPS SRTS/Green Council—on going| |

| |education | | |

| | |SRTS Champion; MPS Safe Routes; Green | |

| |Obtain more bike racks and increase bike rack security. |Council.—Spring | |

|Evaluation: Students will use the new u-locks (success=1/2 checked out at any given time in the spring). |Inclusion Efforts | |

|Resources will be added to the travel plan. More students bike to school. No thefts (few?) occur at EHS |Locks available to entire school, | |

Travel Plan: Goal 3

|Goal 3: |Safe Routes Focus |

| |Education |

|Edison High School will create a primary walk routes map. |Engineering |

| |Enforcement |

| |Encouragement |

| |Evaluation |

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|Background/Purpose: | |

|A primary route map is a Safe Routes to School tool. The map communicates the ways in which a community walks and bikes to school. MPS Safe Routes shares these|Additional Resources and |

|maps with MPS transportation, Safety and Security, City of Minneapolis Public Works, and the Minneapolis police department. The map also shows the public works |Materials |

|infrastructure and can be useful for families in mapping other routes in the neighborhood. SRTS Champion is committed to having students lead these efforts. |Edison Shell Map, walk-zone map, |

| |Other great maps from the City |

| |of Minneapolis |

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| |icycles/bikemap2/ |

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| |Bike Route Mapping: |

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| |Walk tab feature: |

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|Action Steps/Timeline |What |Who/When | |

| |Obtain shell map and walk zone/where live maps for Edison High School |MPS Safe Routes/ September | |

| |with streets, walk zone, and public works infrastructure. | | |

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| |Walk/bike and evaluate the area around Edison. Address concerns. | | |

| | |Green Council, Edison Staff, SRTS | |

| |Create Routes |Champion—fall & winter | |

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| |Share primary routes with MPS Transportation, Safety and Security, City|Green Council, SRTS Champion | |

| |of Minneapolis Public Works and City of Minneapolis Police. Once | | |

| |vetted, add routes to map. | | |

| | |MPS Safe Routes/ March | |

| |Share map with community | | |

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| |Revise map |SRTS Champion, Principal/ At least yearly | |

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| | |Yearly. Contact | |

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| | |revisions to your map. | |

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|Evaluation |Inclusion Efforts | |

|Shell map and primary routes map are included in the Edison High School Travel Plan. The map is shared with the |Add Somali, Spanish, or Hmong and/or bilingual| |

|community and revised as needed. |staff contact info to map. | |

Travel Plan: Goal 4

|Goal 4: |Safe Routes Focus |

| |Education |

|Edison High School and students will form partnerships and connections with the larger biking community. |Engineering |

| |Enforcement |

| |Encouragement |

| |Evaluation |

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|Background/Purpose: | |

|Edison seeks integrated, student-driven safe routes leadership that will give students the lifelong tools with which they change the community attitudes and the|Additional Resources and |

|transportation conditions in the neighborhood and school community. |Materials |

| |Talking Points: |

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| |oads/WTS-talking-points-2011.pdf |

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| |Walkability—English/Spanish and |

| |more |

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| |Bikeability & Solutions— |

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|Action Steps/Timeline |What |Who/When | |

| |Tour a bicycle related business during career explorations. |Edison staff, SRTS Champion, students | |

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| |Describe innovative lock share program to national Green Conference. |Green Council | |

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| |Bike along the river using Nice Ride bikes and discuss other | | |

|[pic] |environmental issues. |Edison students, SRTS Champion, Edison staff | |

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| |Get involved with bike advocacy issues—write letters and emails, |Green Council, SRTS Champion, | |

| |connect with elected officials, attend public meeting. | | |

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| |Attend District, City, State and National Safe Routes meetings and to | | |

| |connect with other, gain knowledge, share resources and promote |Green Council, SRTS Champion, announce/promote| |

| |efforts. |meeting to school. MPS safe Routes share | |

| | |information, promote efforts. | |

|Evaluation |Inclusion Efforts | |

|One or more Edison students takes a role in the larger bike community—career, volunteer advocacy. Awareness and |Cast a wide opportunity net, | |

|enthusiasm for bike/walk/alternate transportation with grow in the Edison High School community. Students will | | |

|see themselves as part of a larger movement. | | |

Travel Plan: Goal 5

|Goal 5: |Safe Routes Focus |

| |Education |

|Edison High School will promote regular biking and walking to school, seeking cultural change at Edison. |Engineering |

| |Enforcement |

| |Encouragement |

| |Evaluation |

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|Background/Purpose: | |

|When the Safe Routes to School Champion started at Edison High School, she found near empty bike racks. An avid biking herself, she seeks a school community | |

|where students experience the bicycle as a viable mode of transportation and a link to personal freedom. She understands students know best what motivates their|Additional Resources and |

|peers and thus seeks student leadership and planning events. |Materials |

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| |SRTS Low-income communities, |

| |Examples described: |

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| |Seward’s (Boltage) efforts |

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|Action Steps/Timeline |What |Who/When | |

| |Consider the purchase of a ZAP/Boltage System: |SRTS Champion, Edison staff, MPS Safe | |

|[pic] |Explore with Edison teachers the possibility of incorporating the |Routes--winter | |

| |system it into their curriculum (Science—solar panels, business | | |

|[pic] |marketing, P.E or online P.E, etc.) | | |

| |Survey students about incentives and what could motivate them to bike | | |

| |and walk regularly to school. | | |

| |Communicate. Resolve and issues w/school and district . | | |

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| |Identify incentives. Implement. |SRTS Champion/Green Council students | |

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| |Recoginze and promote walk/bike efforts within school through hallway |SRTS Champion, Green Council, MPS SRTS | |

| |TV signage, school news, website, announcements, assembles, etc. | | |

| | |Champion/Council | |

| |Promote efforts in the broader community through District resources, | | |

| |local media, internet, contests. |Champion/Council/MPS Safe Routes | |

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| |Regularly count bikes. | | |

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| |Reflect on efforts. Modify as needed. Address problems. Promote | | |

| |success. | | |

|Evaluation |Inclusion Efforts | |

|Bike racks get so full that purchasing more bike racks shoots to the top of the “to do” list. School can quantify|YES. Connect with ELL. Special Ed. Efforts | |

|results of efforts in bike counts. |school wide. | |

Travel Plan: Goal 6

|Goal 6: |Safe Routes Focus |

| |Education |

|Edison High School will participate in school-wide walk and bike to school events at least every fall, winter, and spring. |Engineering |

| |Enforcement |

| |Encouragement |

| |Evaluation |

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|Background/Purpose: | |

|Walk and Bike to school events are a great way to grow walk-to-school efforts, conduct pedestrian education and create enthusiasm for walking and biking to |Additional Resources and Materials |

|school and more. Biking or walking to School one time is so much more than zero. Students feel proud of their efforts. |District Parent Walk-to-School |

| |Workshop January 14th. |

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| |Top Ten Walk to School Activities: |

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| |ite/topactivities.html |

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| |Toolkit: Tip Sheets |

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| |-tools/education-tip-sheets |

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| |Flyers, press releases, and more. |

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|Action Steps/Timeline |What |Who/When | |

| |Identify dates through the calendar and secure principal’s support. |Starting one month before event. | |

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| |Consider identify park and walk sites for students/staff who | | |

| |drive/are driven. | | |

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| |Connect with school staff to support the event. Possible ideas: music| | |

| |teacher helps find musicians to great walkers, art teacher helps | | |

| |create banners or visuals to promote or reflect on event. Connect | | |

| |with bilingual staff and special education staff. | | |

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| |Engage students in planning event, celebration and incentives | | |

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| |Promote event through website and newsletter. Invite special guest | | |

| |walkers. | | |

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| |Promote event through flyer. Add walk to school safety tips to back |One week before event. | |

| |of flyer. Identify press contact and submit press release. | | |

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| |Promote event through school intercom. | | |

| | |Each day three days leading to the event | |

| |Celebrate the arrival to school with banners, raffles, music or other| | |

| |recognition. |Day of the event. | |

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| |Reflect on event—and use reflections to address pedestrian safety | | |

| |concern and improve the next walk to school event. |Right after the event. | |

|Evaluation |Inclusion Efforts | |

|Edison High School will participate in a walk/bike/MTC to school events in the fall, winter, and spring. |Allow all students participate in incentives | |

|Bike and Walk-to-School events will become part of the school culture and students will look forward to them |in some way. Include Go To cards. Use | |

|year after year |inclusive language in promotions. Translate | |

| |communications. | |

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