New subject: Bike Education/Clinic curriculum?

8 Oct 2008

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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:
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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.
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:
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
we use
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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
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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
copy of Bike
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Not
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Bombs' Instructor Training Manual before they took it off the
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
copy I have
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is
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in english) and nice drawings. However, I'm not sure I feel
comfortable
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in
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handing it out since they have stopped sharing it. Is a
representative
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from
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Bike Not Bombs on this list? If so, would your organization
feel
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comfortable
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if I submitted this to the wiki? If not, what do y'all think?
In the
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interest of collaboration and team spirit I'd love to share
it, but I
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definitely didn't develop this manual and it has a copyright
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
Saviours in Tempe,
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AZ. We're targeting people who are potential volunteers. The
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
will get them
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exposed to all of the maintenance aspects, and we envision
them working
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as
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assistant mechanics during our shop hours to gain experience
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
have been
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teaching off of them. Right now I have them on Google Docs
and I plan on
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putting them on the Wiki. I'd like to gather material and
make handouts
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to
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go with each class too. Right now we're just using the same
sheet as a
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handout even though it is kind of dense.
I have also been talking to Christine at Bici Centro about
working on
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a curriculum together. She is working on some good material
for a basic
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class. I've also seen other material out there that has good
diagrams
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that
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are free to use.
I think if we can gather interested people to collaborate
online we can
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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
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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
were the one
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that inspired/interested me the most.  We got back and the
first thing
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I
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want to kick-start was our clinic program which had be
suspended due to
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a
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multitude of reasons... anyways...
so we're about to reinstate our bike clinic series
(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
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
educators
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rotate
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classes) and I'm interested in any organizations that hold
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
interested in
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other
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project's solutions.  If any project has their own
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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