Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Education/Clinic curriculum?

8 Oct 2008

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--- On Wed, 10/8/08, veganboyjosh@gmail.com veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
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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
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information.
I have a slightly different bike education
challenge.
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A lovely gym teacher at Assumption Catholic High
School wants to
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work with me, and with some of my other bike dork
friends, and with
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some of her collegues who teach other subjects, to
develop a bike
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related curriculum for the school at large (and
perhaps to be used
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at other kits)-- it will have:
-- a gym component

-- a shop class bit (bike repair, maybe bike

building)
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-- an art class section (both an art history

section and
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actual creative work with a bike theme-- art bikes,
bike related
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art, etc.)
-- units for geography, history, science...

-- and can you think of anything else that would

be good? Does
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anyone have ideas about things we should put in it?
  I am reminded of the lovely "bicycle

thinker" notion from
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earlier e-mails-- is there a possible high school unit
on bicycle
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thinkers waiting to be written? Has someone already
written it?
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 If we can end up with an integrated bike-related

curriculum
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that fits with the government mandated curriculum, we
are going to
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be pretty happy.
 It will take us a while to develop this, but we

have started
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already. If anyone else is doing this or has done it,
please get in
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touch.
 I am so happy to be part of this community. thank

you all for
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doing such cool and needed work.
                 Thank you.

                        Sasha

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:37:22 -0400 John Gatlin
johngatlin@gmail.com wrote:
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Dave,
I stand corrected. However, how do you get to that
page from their
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main
site? Perhaps their reorganization of the website
confused me.
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Anyway, it's
an excellent resource that ought to be in any
shop's files. Thanks
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for
finding it.
Drew
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Dave Bourgeois
stdaveb@gmail.com wrote:
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Bikes Not Bombs is still posting the manual
here:
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http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/EarnABike
Note this just above the download links:
"We make our training manual available
for people wanting to run
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youth
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bicycle programs in other places. This is the
mechanics manual
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we use
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to train the volunteers who will become
assistant teachers in
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Earn-A-Bike."
I'm guessing BNB won't get upset if
we use their copyrighted
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manual to
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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:
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Hey all,
Along the line of instructor sheets, I
was able to obtain a
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copy of Bike
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Not
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Bombs' Instructor Training Manual
before they took it off the
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web--
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the one they use in their Instructor
Training Course. It is 13
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chapters,
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all
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in .pdf, and very well put together with
clear language (the
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copy I have
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is
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in english) and nice drawings. However,
I'm not sure I feel
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comfortable
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in
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handing it out since they have stopped
sharing it. Is a
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representative
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from
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Bike Not Bombs on this list? If so,
would your organization
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feel
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comfortable
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if I submitted this to the wiki? If not,
what do y'all think?
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In the
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interest of collaboration and team
spirit I'd love to share
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it, but I
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definitely didn't develop this
manual and it has a copyright
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clearly on
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each
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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
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wrote:
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We just started an advanced
maintenance class at Bike
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Saviours in Tempe,
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AZ. We're targeting people who
are potential volunteers. The
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goal is to
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show
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the general principles so that they
can work on any bike they
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come
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across,
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and also so that they can begin to
teach others. The class
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will get them
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exposed to all of the maintenance
aspects, and we envision
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them working
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as
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assistant mechanics during our shop
hours to gain experience
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after the
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class
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session is over.
We wrote some instructor sheets over
the past few months and
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have been
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teaching off of them. Right now I
have them on Google Docs
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and I plan on
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putting them on the Wiki. I'd
like to gather material and
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make handouts
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to
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go with each class too. Right now
we're just using the same
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sheet as a
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handout even though it is kind of
dense.
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I have also been talking to
Christine at Bici Centro about
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working on
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a curriculum together. She is
working on some good material
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for a basic
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class. I've also seen other
material out there that has good
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diagrams
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that
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are free to use.
I think if we can gather interested
people to collaborate
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online we can
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put out some really good material
that we can all use.
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--Ryan
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:24 PM,
Boson Au boson.au@gmail.com
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wrote:
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> Hi everyone, Boson from
Baltimore, MD's Velocipede Bike
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> First of all, @ bike!bike! the
education-related workshops
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were the one
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> that inspired/interested me the
most.  We got back and the
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first thing
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I
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> want to kick-start was our
clinic program which had be
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suspended due to
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a
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> multitude of reasons...
anyways...
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> so we're about to reinstate
our bike clinic series
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(previously we had
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one
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> person do ALL the teaching and
she's about to leave out of
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town for 3
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months
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> so we've decided that
we're going to try to have a group of
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educators
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rotate
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> classes) and I'm interested
in any organizations that hold
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regular
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> classes...  This isn't
exactly a youth program but more like
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a general
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> public thing.  We do have a
curriculum, but I'm kind of
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interested in
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other
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> project's solutions.  If any
project has their own
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curriculum set up
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and
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> want to trade/compare notes
that'd be so awesome.
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