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--- On Wed, 10/8/08, veganboyjosh@gmail.com veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
From: veganboyjosh@gmail.com veganboyjosh@gmail.com Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Education/Clinic curriculum? To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Received: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 11:45 AM hey sasha, (or anyone else interested in the same),
i'm currently involved in a group that's outside of our local shop (community cycles in boulder) that is working with the school district to get a curriculum together for just such a class. your needs are alittle more defined than ours are, as we'll be cold-selling this to PE teachers and others come spring. We do want to involve the teachers early in the planning process, though, so we can make sure that the class we come up with meets the benchmarks that the teachers are required to meet, which will help us sell the idea of a bike class in the first place.
we've found many of the safe routes to schools contacts in various places have different curricula that they use, often it's different from state to state, but most of them are into bikes as well, so are happy to share. some may charge you the cost of copying the curriculum and shipping, but most are worth having, especially if you're getting the curriculum together from scratch.
the BTA in portland has an amazing program, the newest version of which they just released. our team just got our hands on it a few weeks ago, and while i've not had a chance to put my greasy fingerprints on it yet, i'm told it's the gold standard of kids' bike class curricula. can't wait to see it.
on a somewhat related note, i'm somewhat torn. i feel like youth specific issues--bike class curricula, insurance/parent/school district issues, skill set stratification, age appropriate content, etc--almost deserve their own list serv, but i don't want to leave anyone out if they're potentially interested in such. i kind of wish there was a message board on the bcn site, so we could share this info in a way that's a little more dynamic than the wiki, but more permanent and searchable than the listserv...
the same could be said for other issues in the shop/orgs we all work with, but this one--the youth--is one i'm most involved with here, so it's close to my heart.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:32 AM, dragonfly@mac.hush.com wrote:
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Hi, Everyone.
This thread is great! Thank you for all the
wonderful
information.
I have a slightly different bike education
challenge.
A lovely gym teacher at Assumption Catholic High
School wants to
work with me, and with some of my other bike dork
friends, and with
some of her collegues who teach other subjects, to
develop a bike
related curriculum for the school at large (and
perhaps to be used
at other kits)-- it will have:
-- a gym component -- a shop class bit (bike repair, maybe bike
building)
-- an art class section (both an art history
section and
actual creative work with a bike theme-- art bikes,
bike related
art, etc.)
-- units for geography, history, science... -- and can you think of anything else that would
be good? Does
anyone have ideas about things we should put in it?
I am reminded of the lovely "bicycle
thinker" notion from
earlier e-mails-- is there a possible high school unit
on bicycle
thinkers waiting to be written? Has someone already
written it?
If we can end up with an integrated bike-related
curriculum
that fits with the government mandated curriculum, we
are going to
be pretty happy.
It will take us a while to develop this, but we
have started
already. If anyone else is doing this or has done it,
please get in
touch.
I am so happy to be part of this community. thank
you all for
doing such cool and needed work.
Thank you. Sasha
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:37:22 -0400 John Gatlin johngatlin@gmail.com wrote:
Dave, I stand corrected. However, how do you get to that
page from their
main site? Perhaps their reorganization of the website
confused me.
Anyway, it's an excellent resource that ought to be in any
shop's files. Thanks
for finding it.
Drew
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Dave Bourgeois stdaveb@gmail.com wrote:
Bikes Not Bombs is still posting the manual
here:
http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/EarnABike
Note this just above the download links:
"We make our training manual available
for people wanting to run
youth
bicycle programs in other places. This is the
mechanics manual
we use
to train the volunteers who will become
assistant teachers in
Earn-A-Bike."
I'm guessing BNB won't get upset if
we use their copyrighted
manual to
teach adults as well as youth.
Dave Bourgeois Bici Centro Santa Barbara, CA http://www.bicicentro.org/
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:50 PM, John Gatlin
johngatlin@gmail.com wrote:
Hey all,
Along the line of instructor sheets, I
was able to obtain a
copy of Bike
Not
Bombs' Instructor Training Manual
before they took it off the
web--
the one they use in their Instructor
Training Course. It is 13
chapters,
all
in .pdf, and very well put together with
clear language (the
copy I have
is
in english) and nice drawings. However,
I'm not sure I feel
comfortable
in
handing it out since they have stopped
sharing it. Is a
representative
from
Bike Not Bombs on this list? If so,
would your organization
feel
comfortable
if I submitted this to the wiki? If not,
what do y'all think?
In the
interest of collaboration and team
spirit I'd love to share
it, but I
definitely didn't develop this
manual and it has a copyright
clearly on
each
page.
So, BNB, are you out there? Lemme know.
Drew @ Back In The Saddle 512.573.0408
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Ryan
Guzy ryanguzy@gmail.com
wrote:
We just started an advanced
maintenance class at Bike
Saviours in Tempe,
AZ. We're targeting people who
are potential volunteers. The
goal is to
show
the general principles so that they
can work on any bike they
come
across,
and also so that they can begin to
teach others. The class
will get them
exposed to all of the maintenance
aspects, and we envision
them working
as
assistant mechanics during our shop
hours to gain experience
after the
class
session is over. We wrote some instructor sheets over
the past few months and
have been
teaching off of them. Right now I
have them on Google Docs
and I plan on
putting them on the Wiki. I'd
like to gather material and
make handouts
to
go with each class too. Right now
we're just using the same
sheet as a
handout even though it is kind of
dense.
I have also been talking to
Christine at Bici Centro about
working on
a curriculum together. She is
working on some good material
for a basic
class. I've also seen other
material out there that has good
diagrams
that
are free to use. I think if we can gather interested
people to collaborate
online we can
put out some really good material
that we can all use.
--Ryan
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:24 PM,
Boson Au boson.au@gmail.com
wrote:
> > Hi everyone, Boson from
Baltimore, MD's Velocipede Bike
Project...
> > First of all, @ bike!bike! the
education-related workshops
were the one
> that inspired/interested me the
most. We got back and the
first thing
I
> want to kick-start was our
clinic program which had be
suspended due to
a
> multitude of reasons...
anyways...
> > so we're about to reinstate
our bike clinic series
(previously we had
one
> person do ALL the teaching and
she's about to leave out of
town for 3
months
> so we've decided that
we're going to try to have a group of
educators
rotate
> classes) and I'm interested
in any organizations that hold
regular
> classes... This isn't
exactly a youth program but more like
a general
> public thing. We do have a
curriculum, but I'm kind of
interested in
other
> project's solutions. If any
project has their own
curriculum set up
and
> want to trade/compare notes
that'd be so awesome.
> > > >
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