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.NAPT MEMBER NEWS
CDC School Opening Guidelines Create New Regulatory Dynamic
NAPT
According to our friend Dennis Roche, President of Burbio, "the number of US K-12 students attending virtual only schools started at a high of 62% at Labor Day, falling gradually to a low of around 37% by early November. Rising Covid-19 rates and precautionary holiday breaks concentrated in the Midwest and Northeast took that number back up to 55% the first week after the New Year. Since then we have seen an almost-universal return of schools that were in-person as of November. Further, in the last three weeks parts of the country that had been "Always Virtual" — never had students in the classroom — have started introducing students for the first time and as a result the national "Virtual" number is at its lowest point since we began tracking at 33.6%."
In what Roche calls"the most important news of the week" the Centers for Disease Control issued updated guidance that effectively nationalizes the discussion of school reopening by adding explicit community spread threshold benchmarks. The document creates four tiers of transmission — lowest to highest being blue, yellow, orange, and red. In the red zone middle and high schools should be virtual (K-5 would be hybrid) if schools can't implement expanded screening testing and in the orange zone hybrid would be recommended for all.
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The Safety Vision IR Thermometer is used to measure passengers’ temperature quickly and easily as they board the bus or enter the building. Scanning any part of the face or hand, temperature readings are displayed on the LED screen, in addition to an audible voice that states if the person’s temperature is within range.
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The Intersection of Content and Remote Learning: Using NAPT® ACTS As a Platform for Professional Development
NAPT
Join us Friday, February 26th at 11am EST for a live special event, The Intersection of Content and Remote Learning: Using NAPT® ACTS As a Platform for Professional Development, featuring Eric Sheninger, an Associate Partner with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE), whose work focuses on leading and learning in the digital age, used as a model for moving schools and districts forward. Eric focuses on using research and evidence-based practices to empower learners and transform learning.
Push 2 Talk co-hosts Mike Martin and Tim Ammon will lead a discussion with Eric on understanding how digital learning best practices can be used to enhance your training and development programs. Designing development tracks that are interesting, valuable, and, most importantly, educational for adult learners will support efforts to strengthen the safety and effectiveness of pupil transportation operations.
This special event will be offered complimentary to all, offering a preview of the NAPT® ACTS! lineup, and available anytime on-demand, exclusively to NAPT® ACTS! Subscribers.
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Now on Demand on NAPT® ACTS!:
- How the Challenges of 2020 May Shape Your Future: A Personal Story About Human Resilience
- Connecting the Boundary Between Science and Operations: Mitigations May Help Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 on the School Bus: Face Masks and Open Windows: Mitigations May Help Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 on the School Bus
- What School Superintendents Are Paying Attention to Right Now
- Push 2 Talk
- Overcoming the Darkness: Shining Light on Mental Illness
Coming Up on NAPT® ACTS!:
- Tuesday, February 16, 2021: A New, Monthly NAPT® ACTS! Series Premieres: Electric School Buses: From Zero to Sixty
- Thursday, February 18, 2021: Analyzing the Priority Problem: Helping Parents with their Transportation Challenges During the Pandemic
- Tuesday, February 23, 2021: Push 2 Talk, the NAPT® ACTS! Series Continues
- Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Webinar: Bridging the Gap Between the Bus and the Classroom: A Continuous Focus on Student's Mental Health
- Tuesday, March 16, 2021: From Zero to Sixty, the NAPT® ACTS! Series Continues
- Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Webinar: Federal Policy Changes Under the Biden Administration: What That Means for K12 Education
- Tuesday, March 30, 2021: Push 2 Talk, the NAPT® ACTS! Series Continues
Stay Tuned for our April & May schedule featuring insightful and relevant topics, including school choice and its impact on transportation.
All webinars and series are offered exclusively to NAPT® ACTS! subscribers, subscribe today!
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Thank you to our 2021 Business Partners!
NAPT
The companies that provide valuable products and services to student transportation operations are critical to the success of the industry and critical to the success of NAPT.
We'd like to thank these companies for continuing to support NAPT as Business Partners for 2021: 247Security, ALC Schools, AMF-Bruns of America, BITZER US, Blue Bird, Bus Bulletin, busHive, BusPlanner, CI Solutions, CJM Solutions, Easy Way Safety Services, Gatekeeper Systems, HSM Transportation Solutions, Hydro-Chem Systems, Hydrotex, IC Bus, IEE Sensing, Premier Wireless, Q'Straint/Sure-Lok, ReaXium, REI, Rosco Vision Systems, Safe Fleet/Seon, SafeGuard/IMMI, Smart Horizons/School Training Solutions, SOBRSafe, Transfinder, Tyler Technologies, United Safety Corporation, Valeo Thermal Commercial Vehicles North America, Zonar.
Please visit our website for a full list of our Business Partners that includes website and contact information.
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Keep Your NAPT® Member Profile Up-to-Date
NAPT
Now is a great time to log in to the NAPT® website and update your member profile!
Once you're logged in:
- View and update your personal information — it's quick and simple. As soon as you log in, you'll see all of your information and have the ability to make edits as necessary.
- Upload a professional photo to display in your profile that will be visible in the Online Member Directory.
- Provide a brief professional biography in the space provided so we can learn a little more about you.
- Select your Directory Category by clicking on "My Directory Options" and selecting the appropriate organization type.
Log in today! Please contact headquarters at 800.989.6278 if you need assistance logging in to the system.
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Connect with NAPT
NAPT
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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.INDUSTRY NEWS
What would it take for the US to electrify its school bus fleet?
Greater Greater Washington
It will take a long time to electrify the nation's bus fleet. But a new study suggests that the right mix of financing measures and government subsidies could supercharge the nation's school bus fleet within the decade. As the logistical challenges of electrifying the nation's city bus fleets continues to stymie transit agencies, a the new U.S. Public Interest Research Group report reveals that the electric school transportation vehicles, with their comparatively simple schedules and routes, are actually "ready to roll" right now — if districts can just solve the problem of how to pay for what would be a game-changer for our national climate outlook.
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4 effective leadership traits for the COVID-19 era and beyond
K-12 DIVE
In laying out four key effective management approaches, Murray and Hodges gave school leaders permission to recognize they are likely overwhelmed by their responsibilities in reacting to COVID-19 challenges, but that they have the capacity to not only survive but to thrive.
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Biden's goal for school reopenings suddenly became more attainable
U.S. News & World Report
President Joe Biden pledged to reopen the majority of elementary and middle schools for in-person learning in the first 100 days of his administration. Now, the White House has clarified that it considers a school open if it offers students in-person instruction at least one day a week — a much lower threshold than his initial pitch suggested.
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OPS unveiling proposed changes to busing, school choice policies for all high schools
The Omaha World-Herald
Omaha Public Schools families are getting their first opportunities to review the district's reworked transportation and school-choice policies for the district's high schools. Starting in the 2022-2023 school year, OPS will grow from a seven high school district to a nine high school district. Construction is ongoing for the two new schools, at 60th and L Streets and at 156th and Ida Streets.
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5 ways to improve your ability to have meaningful conversations
Fast Company
Today, many of us feel disconnected from each other. The pandemic has created a world where we talk to each other via Zoom, wave at our neighbors from a distance, and rarely interact with new people. It's not just COVID-19 that has created this distance. Families are smaller, marriages are fewer and more people live alone. As a result studies indicate that many people feel more lonely than ever.
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Why establishing high expectations is a quality of good leadership
Entrepreneur
Eighteen classes of schoolchildren were tested for their IQs. The results weren't shown to students or parents. Instead, their teachers were simply given a list of which ones scored highest, along with these instructions: Do not treat these students differently than the others. What happened next may have taken place in a classroom, but it can light a path for our own adult careers. Here were the results — originally produced in this study in 1965 but repeated many times over: After eight months, all the students were given another IQ test.
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Research says there are 16 COVID-19 personality types. Leaders have to plan for them all
Inc.
The pandemic is extraordinary not just because it's a once-in-a-century event, but because it's a challenge literally every human on the planet has faced. To some degree at least each of us has been impacted by COVID-19 this year. We are all in this together. But rather than the species pulling together to face a common threat like in some sci-fi alien invasion movie, instead we've often turned against each other, hoarding supplies, bickering about masks and concocting wild conspiracy theories.
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4 key strategies for becoming a more powerful and trusted leader
The Lead Change Group
Power. The word itself evokes a reaction. What thoughts or feelings do you have when you think of power? Perhaps you picture an organizational chart where the boxes at the top are imbued with more power than those below. Maybe you imagine an iron fist, representative of a person who rules over others with absolute authority. Or perhaps the word power conjures up feelings of nervousness, anxiety or fear, based on negative experiences you've had in the past.
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Why keeping top talent should be your top priority in 2021
Entrepreneur
The economic crisis has forced companies to make tough decisions regarding staffing. With the future up in the air, leaders and human resources departments have been forced to implement furloughs or even let go of people in certain roles. More than 22 million jobs disappeared in 2020, and 10 million of those positions never came back.
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Keep schools open all summer, and other bold ideas to help kids catch up
NPR
It's been 11 months since schools first shut down across the country and around the world. And most students in the U.S. are still experiencing disruptions to their learning — going into the classroom only a few days a week or not at all. To respond to this disruption, education leaders are calling for a reinvention of public education on the order of the Marshall Plan, the massive U.S. initiative to rebuild Western Europe after the devastations of World War II.
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3 time management myths messing with your productivity
Fast Company
As a world of busy people, we are obsessed with time management. We spend a great deal of time and effort seeking out systems and tinkering with tools that promise to help us squeeze in more work in fewer hours. Although some systems and tools have merit, they are perpetuating several time management myths. We need to unpack these myths and start doing what works. Time is ticking.
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