Special Training Sessions

NHTSA Child Passenger Safety on School Buses National Training

Friday 11/8 | 8 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  

Maximum of 60 participants | Separate registration and fees required.

Instructors: Kathy Anneken, Fred Doelker, Kala Henkensiefken, Miriam Manary, Teena Mitchell, David Murphy, Susan Shutrump & Charlie Vits

The newly updated Child Passenger Safety on School Buses National Training provides an overview of the use of child safety restraint systems on school buses, with a focus on pre-school aged children and children with disabilities. Instructional videos are incorporated throughout the training. Participants are provided time for hands-on practice with guidance from skilled staff members. Nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians will earn 3.5 continuing education units (CEUs) for course completion.

This seminar is available to as an add-on to Main Conference registration, or can be taken by itself. Registration and fees required. 

Wheelchair Securement Boot Camp Training & Certification

Friday 11/8 | Time: 10 – 12 p.m.
(Refreshments served)

Hosted by AMF-Bruns of America

At this Training Boot Camp, student transporters will learn to train with AMF Bruns’ recently launched automatic and self-tensioning Silver Series retractors. With this course, school transportation professionals will be provided the tools to support and teach their teams proper safety techniques, which included hands-on training. The key objective to this course include: Overview of equipment, Securing the wheelchair, Securing the occupant with a different variety of occupant securements, Understanding your vehicle floor anchorages, WC 18 and WC 19 and understanding the regulation; identifying a WC 19 wheelchair, Raising awareness about risks of not properly securing passengers, Deboarding passengers, and Passenger sensitivity/etiquette.

Certification will be provided upon completion of this course.

This seminar is available to Main Conference Attendees but requires separate registration at no extra charge. Class size is limited to 75 participants.

Wheelchair Securement Training | Special Needs Roadeo

Friday 11/8 | Time: 3 – 5 p.m.

Hosted by Q’Straint/Sure-Lok

Receive instruction from Q’Straint/Sure-Lok representatives on proper securement of wheelchairs in school buses. This class is a refresher class for TSD Roadeo contestants as well as main conference attendees.

Separate registration is NOT required

Hands-on School Bus Evacuations for Students with Special Needs & Preschoolers

Date: 11/9 | Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. OR Date: 11/10 | Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Maximum of 32 participants | Separate registration and fees required
Onsite at Frisco ISD

Instructors: Denny Coughlin, Launi Harden, Aaron Harris & Diandra Neugent

Join student transportation experts in a classroom setting to review best practices for a successful emergency evacuation of students with disabilities and preschooler, followed by an exercise on a school bus that mimics a real-life route that is servicing students with various physical disabilities as well as younger riders. Complicating the exercise will then be the introduction of fake smoke on the bus to hinder the visibility of attendees as the practice evacuating the “children” during a fire. The instructors will time the participants on how quickly they can evacuate the bus. The seminar will provide instruction on the proper evacuation of students who ride in wheelchairs and who use various child safety restraint systems. Tools used by participants will include evacuation and fire blankets, belt cutters and more. Held offsite at Frisco ISD. Bus transportation & lunch provided.