 Tim Ammon | Tim Ammon of Management Partnership Services, Inc., is a frequent presenter at industry conferences on performance measurement, cost control and operations management. He holds a master's degree in public administration with a specialization in urban management and has evaluated a wide variety of student transportation operations in over a 10-year career as a consultant. Tim's expertise includes system implementation and use as well as evaluating bus routes and schedules. |
 Jeff Beatty | Jeff K. Beatty serves as master trainer for the First Observer Program. Mr. Beatty is believed to be the only U.S. citizen possessing senior-level experience in the U.S. Army, CIA and FBI. He served in the U.S. Army, where he was a Delta Force Assault Troop Commander and Operations Officer. Mr. Beatty was later recruited by the FBI to serve as Special Agent and advisor to the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), with an emphasis on security for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He then went on to serve at the CIA Counter-terrorism Center. As a CIA Operations Officer, he served at several locations in Europe and in the Middle East, where he prepared many successful operations against terrorist groups responsible for the deaths of Americans and helped to thwart a terrorist attack. |
 Rick Boull't | Enrique “Rick” Boull’t has worked with the Los Angeles Unified School District for 32 years, the last four as director of transportation services division. As director, he leads the overall administration of the transportation services division, including a management team responsible for transporting 60,000 students daily on 2,000 routes that cover in excess of 800 square miles in the greater Los Angeles area, serving over 900 school sites.
Mr. Boull’t has successfully implemented numerous strategies to address the continuing budget deficits confronting school district transportation operations throughout the country, while incorporating environmentally-friendly practices, including the replacement of over 500 diesel school buses with alternative-fueled CNG and propane vehicles. He recently introduced bio-diesel for use with the remaining diesel fleet, and installed a vehicle tracking application on district school buses.
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 Peggy Burns | Peggy Burns is a school lawyer and consultant with Education Compliance Group. A licensed attorney for 29 years, Peggy devotes her attention to legal issues affecting education.
She is a frequent presenter at state, regional, and national conferences and workshops, and serves as a tenured faculty member of the Transporting Students with Disabilities Conference. She is editor of Legal Routes, and contributes regularly to other industry publications.
Peggy is the author of four video training programs for drivers: “The Road to Compliance for Special Needs Drivers;” “Putting the Brakes on Harassment;” “Steering Clear of Liability;” and “Confidential Records,” and this year she released “Trends & Trials: School Transportation Law, 2010 Update for Supervisors.”
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 Greg Cantrell | Greg Cantrell is the transportation and facilities director for Centro de la Familia de Utah. Centro is one of the few Head Start agencies that have migrant, regular and now Early Head Start. One of Greg’s main focuses at Centro is the importance of safety and preparedness while transporting children. He has 10 years experience in pupil transportation. Before working with Head Start, Greg worked for FEMA responding to natural disasters all over the country, including New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. |
 Lt. Edward Carroll | Lt. Eddie Carroll is a 28-year veteran of the Minnesota State Patrol and director of pupil transportation safety for the state of Minnesota. He has been a sergeant for 11 years with the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement District, coordinator of Emergency Vehicle Operations Training for Minnesota State Patrol, sergeant for two years with the Motor Unit for Minnesota State Patrol, a patrol trooper for the Minneapolis and Saint Paul patrol stations, and an instructor at Saint Cloud State University. He has taught at the Minnesota State Patrol Training Academy, the Police Corps, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation, to name a few. |
 Marshall Casey | Marshall Casey has more than 35 years of school bus maintenance and administration experience. He has served as director for maintenance and training with the South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Transportation, has been an engineering associate and has a degree in mechanical engineering. He is a member of the International Society of Automotive Engineers and the National School Bus Specifications and Procedures Committee. He is also a master certified school bus technician, a certified truck technician, a transit bus technician and a body/collision repair specialist. |
 Denny Coughlin | Denny Coughlin is president of School Bus Training Company, a training and consulting group that works with many different aspects of a transportation department, including shop evaluation, route evaluation and optimization, and staffing and compliance issues. Denny spent 26 years as fleet manager for Minneapolis Public Schools. He has been involved in many aspects of the school bus industry and has trained the industry and other related industries for 20 years. He has served on countless committees and has been active in legislative issues for most of his career. |
 Myra Crouch | Dr. Myra Crouch has 15-plus years experience in managing Head Start and Early Head Start programs. She currently serves as the director of education and technical assistance programs for STG International, Inc. She is a former Head Start administrator and served as project director for Ohio’s Head Start Public School Transition Project. She brings a wealth of experience in human resources, information systems and collaboration. Dr. Crouch has a master’s in developmental psychology from Ohio State University and a doctorate in applied psychology from Columbus University. |
 Guadalupe Cuesta | Guadalupe is the director of the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Collaboration Office. She has worked with the Migrant Head Start Branch and with its programs for over 20 years in a variety of roles, predominantly in program design and management. Her expertise also extends to the service areas of health, disabilities, nutrition, and family/community partnerships. Ms. Cuesta is a Latina and a native to the Imperial Valley of California. She is a vigorous advocate for the rights, education and standard of living of migrants, engaging in outreach efforts at the national, state and local level. Ms. Cuesta holds a bachelor's degree in bilingual/bicultural studies and a master's degree in Organizational Psychology. |
 Todd Duncan | Todd Duncan has been in the school bus maintenance and operations field for 23 years. For the first 13 years, he worked as an ASE master school bus technician performing preventative maintenance and complex repairs. For the last 10 years he has been a supervisor and now assistant director of the second largest school bus fleet in Nevada at Washoe County School District, with 301 buses and three full-service facilities. |
 Ted Finlayson-Schueler | Ted Finlayson-Schueler founded the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute (PTSI) in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1990 and served as its executive director until 2004. From 1994 to 2004, he grew PTSI into a national organization serving the pupil transportation community. He started Safety Rules! in 2004 to provide consulting services that increase safe travel for children to and from school and school activities. Ted is a frequent presenter at state and national conferences and has written extensively for industry publications, including School Transportation News. |
 Dick Fischer | Dick Fischer began his career in transportation as a school bus driver in 1952. By the age of 23, he was director of transportation for a California school district. During his tenure as a corporate director of safety and training at Associated Bus Co., and later vice president at ARA Transportation, Fischer started nine federally-mandated school bus integration systems, the largest at Los Angeles Unified School District. He began his own worldwide school bus consultant service in 1977, performing studies, training staff, investigating accidents and providing expert witness testimony. Fischer testified in 1972 before Congress on School Bus Standard 17, which described the federal government's role in pupil transportation. He received a letter of recognition from President Nixon in 1968 for his efforts in developing National School Bus Safety Week, and was given the National Council Distinguished Service Safety award in 1996. Fischer received the NAPT Distinguished Service Award in 2004 and was inducted into the NAPT Hall of Fame in 2007. |
 Kathleen Furneaux | Kathy Furneaux has been involved in the pupil transportation industry for more than 25 years. She first started her career as a substitute school bus monitor on a special needs route, becoming a driver and ultimately transportation director. In 1997, she became a training specialist for the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute (PTSI) in Syracuse, New York. In 2004, Furneaux was appointed executive director of the PTSI. She has spoken at national and state conferences across the country, written several nationally published articles and is the co-editor of the New York State Laws & Regs for School Bus Drivers & Attendants published by PTSI. |
 Pauline Gervais | Pauline Gervais is executive director of transportation for Denver Public Schools, the second largest school district in Colorado. She has been involved in transportation for more than 30 years. Currently, she is responsible for all aspects of transportation. Over the past 11 years, her focus and passion has been in the area of special education transportation. Pauline has presented at local, state and national conferences. She is the past president of the Colorado State Pupil Transportation Association and currently serves as a trustee. She has taught the advanced course on Transporting Students with Disabilities at the Colorado Department of Education’s Transportation Summer Workshop. Pauline serves on the board of advisors of the National Conference and Exhibition on Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers and is a tenured faculty member. |
 Frank Giordano | Frank Giordano is the director of transportation for Clark County School District in Las Vegas, the fifth largest school district in the United States. They operate 1,470 school buses with 112,759 students eligible to ride, and 1,165 bus routes are traveled daily. Additionally, 1,500 other vehicles are in the fleet. Five transportation yards and 10 fueling stations are used to cover the 8,000 square mile district. Approximately 2,000 employees fall under his direction.
Frank has been with Clark County School District for over 28 years. Before becoming the department director in March 2009, he was the director of vehicle maintenance and held a variety of other positions in prior years. He was instrumental in Clark County School District’s conversion to biodiesel in 2001 and has been a member and continued supporter of the Clean Cities Coalition in Las Vegas.
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 Steve Harris | Steve Harris is the director of the Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness for the University of Georgia. He served as the state school safety unit manager with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency from 1999-2006. Steve has served as a police officer and as a school security administrator. Steve received his undergraduate degree from Georgia Southern University and a master’s degree from UGA. Steve assisted in the development of the NAPT School Bus Security Assessment Tool and NAPT 901 course. He also coordinated the development of the Georgia Office of Homeland Security’s “School Bus Security: A 21st Century Approach” DVD program. |
 Tina Heily | Tina Heily is the author and developer of the nationally-recognized EPIC Transportation Safety Education Curriculum for Pre-School Children. She collaborated with the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start program to provide grantees with a developmentally-appropriate curriculum focusing on the safety skills and concepts for safe transportation practices. A veteran of the early childhood education field for the past 27 years, 15 of which with Enterprise for Progress in the Community (EPIC), she is well known throughout the Head Start community and provides training, technical assistance and presentations to educators and transportation staff at the local, state and national level. |
 Charlie Hood | Charlie Hood is the president of the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services and a board member on the American School Bus Council. He has served as the director of school transportation for the Florida Department of Education since 1981. He was the chair of the 2005 National Congress on School Transportation, which updates the National School Bus Specifications and Standards. Charlie is a former National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Master Automotive Technician and Master Truck and Bus Technician and received the Peter J. Grandolfo Memorial Award of Excellence at the 2009 STN EXPO. |
 Susan Hunt | Susan Hunt has worked in school bus transportation for almost 30 years, half this time with a school district and the other half in Head Start. Presently, her responsibilities as lead transportation specialist at the Oregon Child Development Coalition are in training, technical assistance, and program and system development. Her Head Start agency operates programs in 12 counties and serves approximately 3,500 infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Susan is a certified child passenger safety technician and is certified as a behind-the-wheel and classroom instructor for school bus drivers in Oregon. She has shared her expertise with other migrant and seasonal Head Start programs across the nation and serves on a transportation work group with other regional Head Start programs in Oregon. |
 Ellen Johnson | Ellen is the transportation supervisor at Orange Unified School District. |
 Mike Kenney | Mike Kenney began his career in the pupil transportation industry in 1978 as a special needs school bus driver. He then moved up to become the transportation supervisor/mechanic at a small eastern Washington school district in 1986. Mike was also an automotive vocational instructor for Spokane Community College from 1987-1994. In 1988, he was certified as a Washington state school bus driver instructor. Mike has served on the Washington Association for Pupil Transportation board of directors in various capacities since 1988. Mike became a regional transportation coordinator in 1994, first at ESD 105 in Yakima, then at his current location at ESD 101 in Spokane. He was appointed as the state specifications coordinator in 1998. Since then, Mike has been teaching pupil transportation management summer classes at Central Washington University. Nationally, Mike has served on the National School Transportation Specifications and Procedures body writing committee since 1998. He is currently serving as the chair of the specifications writing committee. |
 Charley Kennington | Charley Kennington has served as a board member on the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services, Southeastern States Pupil Transportation Conference, Transporting Students with Disabilities Conference, Pupil Transportation Safety Institute, and the Texas Operation Lifesaver. Charley is currently serving as a board member of NASDPTS’ Supplier Council and the Transporting Students with Disabilities Conference. Charley served as state delegation chair for the 13th and 14th National Congress on School Transportation and served as the writing committee chair for Infants, Toddlers and Pre-school section for the 15th NCST. |
 Ralph L. Knight | Ralph Knight has more than 39 years in public and private transportation management. Over the last 15 years, he has become a resourceful advocate of alternative fuels. As Napa Valley Unified School District’s director of transportation, Ralph has committed NVUSD to becoming the leader in alternative fuels fleet operation with CNG, electric, hybrid, and the only plug-in hybrid school bus in California. Ralph has traveled throughout the country speaking on “Clean Fuel School Buses.” |
 Peter Lawrence | Peter Lawrence began his school bus industry career in 1988 as a school bus mechanic. He has been a school bus driver, group leader, head mechanic, bus driver trainer/safety coordinator, head bus driver and currently is the director of transportation at Fairport Central Schools in New York. Peter holds degrees in automotive technology, managing human resources, management and a certificate of advanced study in school business administration. Peter is a nationally certified director of pupil transportation through NAPT. He has taken over 35 NAPT professional development courses and teaches regularly for NAPT across the nation. |
 Major Jo Major | Mary Jo Major has been the member services director for NASDPTS since 2003. She quickly learned that the passion for the yellow school bus is contagious. Although NASDPTS member services director is a part-time job, serving the yellow school bus community has become a full-time passion. For the majority of her work life, Mary Jo has enjoyed self-employment in her training and organizational development business, CommuniSkills. She earned a B.A. from Baylor University, an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and an Ed.D. in human resource development/adult and continuing education from Oklahoma State University. |
 Spencer McDonald | Spencer McDonald is a respected authority on driver behavior, psychology and training, and is the founder and president of Thinking Driver. With a background and education in counseling psychology, Spencer has worked in the road safety field since 1984 and has trained thousands of drivers and instructors including school transportation, police, firefighters and emergency vehicle operators. He won the 2008 Transport Canada and Transportation Association of Canada Award of Achievement for having made a positive and measureable contribution to transportation safety. As a specialist in program design, Spencer has developed and delivered training throughout western Canada and the U.S. for the government, the school bus industry and many other organizations and sectors. |
 Pam McDonald | Pam is the transportation director at Orange Unified School District in Southern California and the state president of the California Association of School Transportation Officials. |
 Lynn Meacham | Lynn received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and started in education in 1990, teaching second and sixth grades for four years. During this time he completed his master's degree in educational counseling from the University of Phoenix and received an administrative license from the University of Utah. He was a junior high counselor for 10 years and an assistant principal for three years in two different junior high schools. For the past three years Lynn has served as the supervisor of transportation for Nebo School District. He is currently enrolled at Walden University working on a doctorate degree in administration. |
 Margo Medeiros | Margo Medeiros is the assistant director of transportation at Washoe County School District, the second largest school system in Nevada. This is her first year as a conference presenter on the national level. |
 Pete Meslin | Pete Meslin has been in the transportation field for 26 years. For the last six, he’s been director of transportation at Newport-Mesa Unified School District in Southern California. Pete serves on STN’s editorial board and has written several articles for national journals. He is also a frequent speaker at national, regional and state conferences. He is currently chair of the California Association of School Transportation Officials special needs committee and has recently published an updated guide for transporting students with disabilities. He is also a member of the NCST Special Needs Writing Committee. Pete’s other area of focus is creative and efficient transportation management practices. He has presented his practical ideas on topics such as: data use, leadership, problem solving, and bringing about systemic change. Recently, Pete has been called upon to share his focus on operational efficiency with school board associations, Special Education Local Plan Areas, and various school districts’ administrations. |
 John D. Musso | John D. Musso, an experienced educator, brings over 30 years of experience to his current position of executive director for Association of School Business Officials International. During his career, he has been an elementary school teacher, principal, deputy superintendent, and chief financial officer. Musso also has served in leadership positions for various nonprofit organizations including Colorado ASBO and the Colorado Association of School Executives. Musso, who holds the designation of registered school business administrator through ASBO International, received a bachelor’s degree in science and math from the University of Southern Colorado, a master’s in public administration from the University of Northern Colorado, and school administrator credential and licensing from Western State College in Colorado. |
 Nancy Netherland | Nancy Netherland is a training and technical assistance specialist in the areas of Head Start program design, administration, and transportation services for the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, D.C. For more than 35 years, she has worked in the fields of early childhood development, vocational technical education and Head Start. Nancy taught courses in early childhood health and safety for the Red Cross and is a certified child safety seat technician. She is a member of STN's editorial advisory board for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start. |
 Michael Patton | Mike Patton has worked as the director of transportation for the Capistrano Unified School District in Southern California since February 2001. The department employed more than 250 drivers, mechanics and support staff transporting 10,000 students on a daily basis prior to experiencing significant route reductions due to California’s ongoing budget crises. One factor in preserving many of the district’s home to school routes still being operated is the district’s Parent Pay program. CUSD is a large district serving more than 50,000 students spread across 200 square miles and comprising of seven cities. Mike has been involved in significant contract renegotiations which reduced expenditures by over $1 million annually, significant service reductions, realignment of district bell schedules and increasing of district fees to users of transportation. Mike has served as an officer for several years in the California Association of Transportation Officials. He has received certification in the California Department of Education Transportation Administration Program as well as the California Association of School Business Officials Chief Business Official Education Partnership training program. Prior to coming to work at CUSD, Mike spent seven years working as a business agent for Teamsters Local 952 representing school bus drivers, mechanics and dispatchers, among others. |
 Brian Richmond | Brian Richmond
Brian is the director of the National American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Collaboration Office located within the Academy for Educational Development. As a proponent of tribal sovereignty, Brian is committed to insure that resources are shared equitably with American Indian/Alaska Native programs, and that native rights are acknowledged and respected. Brian has a bachelor’s degree in public health with a minor in Native American studies, a master's in public health with an emphasis in rural/cross-cultural health, and a graduate certificate in Latin American studies. His public health doctoral studies focused on stress management and alternative medicine, and, in addition to collaboration, he is dedicated to reducing stress and promoting positive mental health for staff, children and families. |
 Bob Riley | Bob Riley was named executive director of NASDPTS in early 2007. Previously, he served as assistant director, then director of transportation for the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida for 22 years. Bob has been involved directly in many facets of vehicular safety and training to include automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles and ATVs. He was one of the initial members of NASDPTS and is a long-term member of NAPT. He currently serves on the American School Bus Council. |
 Alexandra Robinson | Alexandra Robinson began her work with students with disabilities in Connecticut as a counselor and teacher of students with severe autism. For over 22 years, Alex has presented to transportation professionals and special educators both locally and nationally in the areas of mobility and securement, civil rights, safety and transportation of students with medical and/or other special transportation needs. Her presentations on strategic planning, leadership, logistics and organizational behavior have helped guide transportation professionals in both the U.S. and Canada. Alex currently serves on the peer-review team with the Council of the Great City Schools, providing management overview and strategic planning for the nation’s large urban school districts. In addition, Alex has served as an expert witness and consultant on numerous cases and studies involving both school and public transit passengers. Alex is currently the president-elect for NAPT and chair of NAPT’s Leadership Initiative. |
 Launi Schmutz | Launi Schmutz has been in transportation for more than 20 years and is currently the school transportation administrator for Washington County School District in St. George, Utah and certified driver instructor for the Utah State Office of Education. Her current position includes responsibility for over 150 employees in a department where 79 of the 120 school buses transport approximately 13,500 students each day. She sits on the advisory board and is chair of the special needs section of Utah's state standards for the Office of Education. Launi is the National Association for Pupil Transportation director at large as well as treasurer. She is a co-chair of the Leading Every Day Initiative, chair of the Larson Award Committee and serves on the NAPT Special Needs Committee. She is active in the Utah Association for Pupil Transportation as the treasurer and is a past-president. |
 Sue Shutrump | Sue Shutrump is supervisor of OT and PT services for the Trumbull County Educational Service Center. She is the 2007 recipient of the NAPT Sure-Lok Safe and Secure Special Needs Transportation Award. She is a certified child passenger safety technician. She served on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s curriculum writing committee for Child Passenger Safety Restraint Systems on School Buses, as well as the recent revision committee. She was a member of the Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers Operations Writing Committee for the 13th through 15th National Conference on School Transportation and the Special Needs Operations Writing Committee for the 14th and vice-chair of this committee for the 15th National Conference. She has also served as an expert witness. |
 Karen Stephens | As the state coordinator for the Education of Homeless Children & Unaccompanied Youth, Karen provides training and technical assistance to local school district homeless children liaisons and homeless service providers in Nevada. She serves on the Nevada Early Intervention Agency Council and the Southwest Regional Homeless Children & Youth Committee and is an advocate for homeless and displaced persons statewide. She received her bachelor/s degree in business administration from Chapman University and her master/s degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix. |
 Dr. David Strayer | Dr. David Strayer is a professor of psychology at the University of Utah, director of the Applied Cognition Lab, and director of the Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1989. Dr. Strayer has been studying driver distraction caused by the use of wireless devices for the last decade. |
 Jeff Tsai | Jeff Tsai directs the Pupil Transportation Group and the Operation Research/Education Laboratory at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University where he conducts projects and applies technological and scientific principles to the operation and management of multimodal school transportation systems. Jeff is the former chair for the Transportation Research Board’s School Transportation Subcommittee and served on the study committee that authored the special report titled “The Relative Risks of School Travel.” He is also the contributing author for a book titled “Safe and Health School Environments.” Jeff is a certified instructor for North Carolina’s Safe Routes to School Program. His two children ride school buses daily and he is also the founding member of the Olive Chapel Elementary School’s Walking School Bus program. |
 John Walsh | John Walsh will present the keynote address on July 26. He will address attendees on the dangers to school buses presented by child sexual predators and how to keep children safe on their way to and from school each day. He and his family came to notoriety in the worst way imaginable when his son Adam was abducted in 1981 from a shopping mall in Florida and killed by a suspected child predator. The case was never fully solved, though the crime was considered to be committed by now-deceased serial killer Ottis Toole. In response to thier son's death, the Walshs have made crime solving their lifelong passions. John Walsh is best known as host of the FOX TV show "America's Most Wanted," now in its 21st year. He also helped to create the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, which later merged into the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, of which John serves on the board of directors. |
 Brian Weisinger | Brian Weisinger has been the director of transportation at Spring ISD in Spring, Texas, since 2002. He is the chair of the Texas Association of Pupil Transportation's school bus specifications committee and a member of the Greater Houston Hurricane Advisory Committee. The former TAPT Gulf Coast president got his start in the industry in 1978 as a mechanic for Clear Lake ISD. He was named the 2009 STN Leadership Award winner. |
Marisa Weisinger | Marisa has been in the Pupil Transportation Industry for over 23 years and is presently employed by the Region 4 ESC Innovative Transportation Solutions Department. Previously she served as director of transportation for Columbia-Brazoria ISD for eight years and for Huntsville ISD and Birdville ISD previous to that. Marisa is a transportation consultant, presents at conferences, school districts, and workshops both nationally and locally, and has been the event coordinator for two conferences since 2005. She has served on the Board of the Texas Association for Pupil Transportation (TAPT) and is a past President for the Gulf Coast Chapter of the TAPT (GCAPT) serving Regions 4 and 6, representing 110 school districts. She has served as a state delegate for the National Congress for School Transportation Specifications and Guidelines Congress since 2004 and was the Principal Coordinator for the TEEX "Train the Trainer" school for eight years. She has completed her TAPT Professional Certification, is working on her NAPT Certification and Special Needs Endorsement; is an Instructor for the TAPT Certification Program; a member of the National Special Needs Committee; and an active member of TASBO, NAPT, TAPT and GCAPT. |
 Cheryl Wolf | Cheryl Wolf has been in pupil transportation for 27 years and currently serves as transportation supervisor for Lafayette School Corporation in Lafayette, Ind. She is on the board of advisors and the tenured faculty for the National Conference and Exhibition on Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers, chairman of the NAPT Special Needs Transportation Committee and chairman of the Writing Committee for “Transportation for Students with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs” for the 15th NCST. Cheryl was also on the writing committee for the NHTSA “Child Passenger Safety Training for School Buses” curriculum. |
 Jean Zimmerman | Jean M. Zimmerman is the supervisor of occupational and physical therapy with the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida. As a physical therapist, Jean has been involved in school bus transportation for the past 25 years. She has presented at numerous state, national and international conferences on transporting students with special needs. Her expertise includes medically complex students, wheelchairs, child passenger safety restraints and evacuation. Jean is on the tenured faculty for the Transporting Students with Special Needs Conference, a member of the NAPT Special Needs Committee and the Board of Directors for the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute. Jean has just published a manual, training curriculum with a PowerPoint presentation and a participant workbook on Evacuating Students with Special Needs. |
