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CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ITS INITIAL OBJECTIVES Te Leading Every Day initiative is expanding at this year’s
Summit, which includes an introductory keynote address by Hall Davidson, director of the Discovery Channel Educator Network. John Fahey, the former assistant superintendent of service center operations at Buffalo City School District and a member of the Council of the Great City Schools, will address the LED partici- pants on the strengths and weaknesses of leadership, including the benefits of using Key Performance Indicators. Te program will also include working with locals from Hillsboro School Dis- trict Meet to assess and address challenges faced by the district. Te Discovery Channel will also be sending in another face
from the network, Matt Roloff, star of the hit reality show “Little People, Big World.” Te show follows the lives of Roloff, who was born with a rare form of dwarfism, his wife and children. Rol- off will share the stage with Martin Daum, president and CEO of Daimler Trucks, North America, who will talk about the future of commercial vehicles in America.
BACK (AGAIN) BY POPULAR DEMAND Once again, Mack Dryden will take the stage in Portland,
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by Bill Cosby, Dryden will conduct interviews with some local school children about their opinions of the yellow bus and ev- erything it encompasses. Later that evening, Dryden will perform a second imperson-
ation, this time hosting the annual awards banquet in the style of Te Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Guests of conference attendees will not have to sit in their ho-
tel rooms waiting for their significant others to complete a day of workshops. Visitors will be taken on a six-hour journey around the Portland area, including stops along a portion of Lewis and Clark’s famous expedition as well as a visit to Multnomah Falls, the second highest year-round waterfall in the United States.
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED,
SOMETHING...YELLOW Many of the hot topics that span the boundaries of time will
be covered at this year’s conference, including maximizing your bus routes; a look the Safe Routes to School program and school transportation’s role in it; the good, bad and ugly of school bus technology; as well as a recap of the NCST meeting in Warrens- burg this past May. A handful of the workshops this year will be asking transpor-
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tation professionals to take a look at themselves. Not only will attendees look at how they are perceived by the general pub- lic as well as the media, they will be challenged to use tools like key performance indicators to find the holes that need to be plugged in their departments and discover issues that they never knew were issues. A full list of the workshops is available at
www.naptonline.org/summit.html.
STATE DIRECTORS MAKETHE MEETING Te National Association of State Directors of Pupil Trans-
portation Services will be holding their annual meeting, once again, in conjunction with the NAPT Summit, adding a few new highlights to its five-day event. Nationally-syndicated colum- nist and author Lenore Skenazy will be delivering the keynote at this year’s meeting with a speech called “Why Does an Old- Fashioned Childhood Sound So Radical?” NASDPTS President Charlie Hood described the address as
one that uses both facts and statistics on child safety presented in an amusing fashion. Te directors will also discuss the conclu- sion of the Alabama seat belt study and the current American School Bus Council initiatives, and may get a visit from Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools within the U.S. Department of Education. Jen- nings hosted a NAPT-sponsored webinar on bullying earlier this year is also scheduled to appear at the NAPT Summit. Te most current NASDPTS meeting agenda is available on- line at
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