General Sessions
• Establishing Transportation’s Viewpoint in Discussions on Educational Reform
• National Transportation Safety Board Update on School Bus Crash Investigations
• Emerging Crash Avoidance Technology & Te ‘Automated’ School Bus
• Employee Recruitment, Retention & Succession Planning: Finding the Carrot & the Stick
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• Coffee’s On Us, Tips Are Appreciated Wrap up the STN EXPO with free coffee served in School Transportation News collector mugs and discuss key lessons learned over the past week, share ideas or strategies to implement locally and help shape next year’s event in Reno.
Special Training Sessions
(Additional fee required)
School Bus Dispatcher Training (4 hours) Presented by the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute
NHTSA Child Passenger Safety Restraint Training (8 hours) Tis course addresses the unique challenges of installing Child Safety Restraint Systems (CSRS) and utilizes the revised curriculum approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to teach the proper use and installation of these systems on school buses. All requirements to participate in this course are completed onsite. Upon completion, attendees will receive 5.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from Safe Kids Worldwide.
Defensible Use of Force on the Bus An angry parent boards your bus and you fear you or your students may be assaulted. You are driving your bus when you are suddenly assaulted by a student. You see a male approaching your bus with a gun in his hand after your students have boarded. What can you do in each of these situations? Safety and security expert Jesus Villahermosa will lay out a very clear foundation of what your rights are as a school bus driver when it comes to defending yourself or your students while operating your bus. Jesus’ background as a master defensive tactics instructor for law enforcement personnel and as an expert witness in use of force issues allows him to answer any “What if?” questions you may have. Jesus will also provide an electronic template for any transportation agency that can be used for documentation when a use of force situation occurs.
Survival Tactics for the Active Killer on a Bus Jesus Villahermosa will discuss how to mitigate the possibility of an active killer on a bus as well as what to do if this type of incident occurs on your bus. Te theme of this training will be “Awareness Before Defense,” although various emergency driving response options will be discussed, along with numerous survivable physical response options for the driver to survive such an attack.
Denny Coughlin School Bus Safety Company
Aaron Dempsey Okemos Public Schools (Mich.)
Norm Dube Fire Investigator ND Services, Inc.
Barbara Duffield ESSA/McKinney-Vento Act Policy Expert
Chris Ellison Transportation Manager Eugene (Ore.) School District
Tod Eskra President, Transportation Services Co.
Amanda Essex Transportation Analyst National Conference of State Legislatures
Glenna Gallo Special Education Director Utah State Department of Education
Ali Haghani, Ph.D. Prof. of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Maryland
Launi Harden Transportation Supervisor Washington County (Utah) School District
Ben Belnap, Ph.D Certified School Psychologist Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City
Linda F. Bluth, Ed.D. Special Needs Expert, Ellicott City, Md.
Marshall Casey Director of Fleet Maintenance (ret.) South Carolina Department of Education
Walt Commans Automotive Service Excellence
(As of 4/14/17. Subject to Change.)
Conference Speakers
Tim Ammon Vice President, School Bus Consultants
David Anderson Director of Transportation Adams 12 Five-Star Schools (Colo.)
Teresa Anderson Anderson Consulting
Betty Hughes Pupil Transportation Safety Institute
Pete Meslin Director of Transportation Newport-Mesa (Calif.) USD
Patrick Mulick Autism Coordinator Auburn (Wash.) School District
Robert T. Pudlewski Maintenance & Technology Consultant
Tim Purvis Director of Transportation Poway (Calif.) Unified School District
Alexandra Robinson Executive Director of Transportation New York City Department of Education
Joe Scesny Safety Consultant Supervising Motor Vehicle Inspector (ret.) NY State Department of Transportation
Ali Shafani, Ph.D. Prof. of Civil & Environmental Engi- neering University of Maryland
Michael Shields Director of Transportation Salem-Keizer (Ore.) Public Schools
Sue Shutrump OT/PT Supervisor Trumbull County (Ohio) ESC
GP Singh CEO & Founder, ByteCurve, LLC
Eric Smith Transportation Director Seneca R-7 School District in Neosho, Mo.
Ben Springer, Ph.D. Director of Special Education Wasatch County (Utah) School District
Jay Turber Transportation Coordinator CSI Head Start/Early Head Start Shoshone, Idaho
Jesus Villahermosa, Jr. Owner & Founder Crisis Reality Training, Inc.
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