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| Community Response to School Shooting Tragedies
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NAPT Offers Special Webinar
You are invited to participate in an extraordinary webinar, created to explore opportunities for collaboration among like-minded members of the school transportation community. The webinar: School & Mass Shootings in America: What Now? which is FREE, will be held at 2pm on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Register today!
Join us and meet Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut, one of the nation's leading researchers on the topic of school and mass shootings, who will explore the roles everyone interested in the safety, health and general welfare of children in America can and should play in helping our communities understand and respond to tragic events like the mass shooting in Parkland, FL on February 14, 2018. Dr. Schildkraut will discuss the impact mass shootings as told by the media have on society and explore options to affect positive change. Registration is open!
Jaclyn Schildkraut, PhD, is an assistant professor of Public Justice at the State University of New York at Oswego. She is the co-author of Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities and has a new book, Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses, coming out later this year. Her research has been published in a number of academic journals and has been featured in a host of news sources, both in the U.S. and internationally.
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| February webinar explores LinkedIn
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Take your professional networking to a whole new level with NAPT's February member webinar. 2017 conference Thought Leader Terry Sullivan is joining us for this 1-hour webinar designed to help participants harness the power of LinkedIn. Register online today!
Title: Master the Power of Social Selling with LinkedIn
Presenter: Terry Sullivan, Integrated Marketing and Social Selling Strategist, LinkedIn Trainer & Speaker
Date: Wednesday, February 28
Time: 1pm ET
Fee: FREE for NAPT members!
LinkedIn is the proven #1 ranked online business-networking tool that gives professionals and organizations the ability to connect, demonstrate their skills, services and products, and develop meaningful relationships. With more than 464 million users worldwide, LinkedIn provides unlimited networking and business-building opportunities. This presentation will show you how use LinkedIn to take advantage of the immense opportunities this powerful platform offers as a personal branding and marketing tool to achieve your professional goals. You will learn to harness the power of Social Selling with LinkedIn:
- Build Better Leads Faster
- Connect with the Right People
- Build a Great Reputation
- Manage Your Contacts More Efficiently
Online registration is open!
Upcoming Webinar
Title: Strategy Applied To Human Capital
Presenter: Raymond Melleady, Executive VP for USSC Group
Date: Tuesday, March 27
Time: 1pm ET
Fee: FREE for NAPT members!
Online registration is open!
This one hour webinar will provide participants with a four-step process on strategic planning with a specific focus on human capital. Ray Melleady will walk through the process of self-awareness, external and internal assessments and focused strategic outputs. The course will help participants to recognize and isolate root cause from symptom and convert vision into operational outcomes.
The presentation will include:
- The fundamentals of Strategic Planning and why "book" strategies often fail.
- The Psychology of Strategy — resetting the human mind to think forward.
- Self-Awareness — recognizing extreme attributes and blind spots
- Choice Management
- Strategic Focus
- Human Motivation & Change Management
How to Register
Once you reach the NAPT website and webinar description, click on "Member Registration" on the right-hand side of the screen. You will be prompted to log in as a member to complete your webinar registration. If you have any questions, or need assistance, please contact us in NAPT headquarters at 800.989.6278 or janna.smeltzer@napt.org.
Missed a webinar? All of the webinars from 2016, 2017, and January 2018 are archived in the Members' Only section of the website. Log-in today and you'll find them under "Member Resources."
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| NAPT member benefit spotlight: Career Center
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Looking to advance your career? Have a job opening in your department? Let NAPT's Career Center help! Whether you're looking for a new job or to fill a position in your organization, NAPT's Career Center allows you to connect with fellow NAPT members, potential employees and employers, and other industry stakeholders for career networking benefits.
- For the job seeker: search job listings, post your resume and have access to the Career Learning Center — an area dedicated to providing interview tips, blogs and other career resources for your professional enrichment.
- For the employer: post jobs quickly, search resumes or set up a resume alert to be emailed to you, manage applications, and more.
Take advantage of your membership and visit the NAPT Career Center.
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Let NAPT help you stay in touch with colleagues and up-to-date on industry news and interesting stories from around the nation.
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Market Watch
The mass shooting at a South Florida high school has revived conversations around how to make schools safer for students and teachers alike. The gunman, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, killed 17 people and injured many more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Cruz's attack on his former high school exposed the ways in which certain security measures can fail short. He managed to get onto the school's campus because the gates surrounding the campus were open to let school buses in ahead of dismissal.
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The Atlantic
President Donald Trump's proposed federal budget, unveiled Monday, calls for major cuts to existing education programs and a huge increase for school-choice initiatives. The first question stemming from his blueprint is this: How seriously will Congress take his administration's plan, even with Republicans controlling both chambers?
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American School & University
Student transportation in the Houston area remains out of whack five months after Hurricane Harvey pounded the region, school administrators say. The Houston Chronicle reports that flooding from the storm has made bus routes harder to navigate and led to an exodus of bus drivers from school systems already struggling to retain them. Many districts are hard-pressed to maintain services with little to no additional funding from the state and federal governments.
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Forbes
Organizations are facing huge challenges today as they grapple with how to better prepare their leaders to steer through unprecedented and rapidly accelerating changes in the business world. The landscape of what leadership means today is changing, as leaders are required to both develop innovative, sustainable businesses for an unknown long-term future and to deliver strong results today. But there is great opportunity as well.
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Harvard Business Review
The word crisis suggests something that happens infrequently. But these days, crises have become a regular state of affairs. Brands that you'd think would be fairly immune to scandal have found themselves embroiled in controversy. And those that deal with public relations challenges regularly have still been caught off guard by a customer insurgency. Some crises disappear quickly and others never seem to go away.
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Radio Iowa
Legislators are considering a bill that would let school districts use pick-up trucks to transport students to extra-curricular activities, but only if the students are in the truck cab and using a seat belt. Senator Waylon Brown, a Republican from St. Ansgar, says current state regulations forbid the practice, as Sheldon school officials discovered after they bought a pickup for the activities of a Future Farmers of America chapter.
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Des Moines Register
A pair of education funding bills approved by House committees would equalize school transportation costs and extend a sales tax that is expected to provide billions of dollars for school infrastructure projects over 20 years. Both Republicans and Democrats praised the bills, which works to address issues that have been under debate in the Legislature for years.
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Education Week
President Donald Trump is seeking a roughly 5 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Education's budget for fiscal 2019 in a proposal that also mirrors his spending plan from last year by seeking to eliminate a major teacher-focused grant and to expand school choice. Trump's proposed budget, released Monday, would provide the Education Department with $63.2 billion in discretionary aid, a $3.6 billion cut — or 5.3 percent — from current spending levels, for the budget year starting Oct. 1.
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WCBD-TV
The South Carolina Public Charter School District is pushing South Carolina lawmakers to provide them with transportation funding so they can provide student transportation at no cost. North Charleston charter school, Palmetto Scholars Academy, uses a private bus service for student transportation. Even though charter schools are considered a public school, the bus service is not free. Parents pay about $130 dollars a month to use it.
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School Leaders Now
Twenty years ago, there was very little talk in schools about mental illness. School counselors have always been on hand to help, but kids today seem to be grappling with more serious issues. So, principals really need to know what to look for and how to respond to student mental illness.
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Entrepreneur
For leaders and corporations to excel, team members need to feel supported and inspired by the two all-important leadership ingredients of Help and Hope. It is imperative to long-term success that leaders get involved in the day-to-day grind with their team members so they are present to the ongoing needs for support and direction. When team members feel our presence on the sidelines of their career path, they feel supported and more confident about the underlying reasons they are working so hard for us. The net of it, is people stay in careers and under leaders when they feel their efforts are valued.
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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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