Track 1 - Education Empowerment

 

Learn how to work with youth to build their voice, knowledge, and engagement to create Safe Routes to School.

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Breakout Session #1: Reading, Riding, 'Rithmetic (Presentation):

• Description: 

Wisconsin Bike Fed will share lessons, challenges, and models from our Safe Routes programs in Dane County and Milwaukee Public Schools. You will come away with strategies to center youth as leaders while adapting our lessons for your own community.  Learn about lessons for K-12 students, including Bicycle Driver’s Ed, Walking Wisdom, Child Friendly City infrastructure lessons, and new opportunities for teens.

• Speakers/Participants: 

Natalie Schad, Michael Anderson, Anthony Casagrande, Alora Correa

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Breakout Session #2: Wisconsin Safe Routes Salon (Group Roundtable):

• Description: 

The Safe Routes Salon provides an opportunity for participants to share their experiences and challenges related to child mobility and learn from each other in a collegiate setting. This salon style session will be facilitated by Bike Fed Safe Routes Instructors, with additional practitioners from around the State of Wisconsin engaged in leading topics including the Development of Safe Routes to School Action Plans, the Challenges of Equitable Active Transportation & The Walking School Bus Model, Tips & Tricks for Facilitating Youth Bike Rides, and adapting Milwaukee’s Youth-Centered Design Process to Your Town.

• Speakers/Participants: 

Facilitated by the Bike Fed’s own Safe Routes to School team and partners

 

Afternoon Active "Super Session": Rodeo Roundup - Teaching Safe Bicycling:

• Description: 

Come take your learning to the pavement with the Rodeo-Round up on State Street. This session will provide you with on-bike learning as we build and practice the skills needed to lead your own bike rodeo for kids. Based in the Bike Fed’s Teaching Safe Bicycling curriculum, this clinic is a powerful tool for better understanding the differences between children and adults as cyclists, especially around safety practices. With the goal of learning how to create  autonomy and safety for youth riders, this session  will go through an abridged version of a bike rodeo with stations like helmet fit and the ABC safety check, scanning and signaling, navigating on-road hazards, and riding around traffic/cars. Session capacity: 25. 

• Speakers/Participants: 

Jake Newborn, Gui Gregory ​

Track 2 - Changemaker Inspiration

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Draw inspiration and tools that will help you engage with local officials from your neighborhood to the Statehouse.

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Breakout Session #1: Advocacy from your Neighborhood to the Statehouse (Panel):

• Description: 

Come find out how you can grow your advocacy efforts from the local level to statewide! Join current and former elected officials from city councils, county governments, regional planning commissions, and the state legislature to learn how you can be an effective constituent and informed advocate. This panel will provide you with the insight you need to help you bring light to an issue in your community, get the support to move an initiative or project forward, and effectively organize your advocacy efforts.​

• Speakers/Participants: 

Moderated by Collin Mead; panel participants include: Jeremy Gragert, Marty Krueger, Chris Hiebert, Kim Biedermann, State Representative Lee Snodgrass, State Representative Deb Andraca, and State Senator Chris Larson. 
 

Breakout Session #2: A Simple Solution: Active Transportation at the Intersection of Health & Safety

• Description: 

           Join researchers and experts in the fields of health, active transportation and safety to explore ways that bicycle and                   pedestrian infrastructure can improve longevity for residents of communities of all sizes.

• Speakers/Participants: 

          Jessica Wineberg, Renee Callaway, Amanda Richman, Robert Walker, Lexi Davis

 

Afternoon Active "Super Session": Pedestrian Dignity Audit Training & Walkshop:

• Description: 

This will be a combined indoor training with an outdoor walking/rolling audit experience. The indoor training will include an overview on the why, what, and how related to hosting walking/rolling audits as a part of your education, advocacy, and infrastructure goals. The moving portion will involve topics of pedestrian behavior, benefits of walking, and time for participants to engage in an on-site location-based audit using AARP Walk Audit worksheets. Throughout the training and walkshop, we will center the lived experience of people who walk, use mobility devices, and take transit as their primary or preferred form. We will share numerous strategies for how to maximize your walking/rolling audits to impact local, regional and statewide change. Some of these strategies include building relationships with residents, co-creating audits with a variety of users/abilities, scouting routes, curating audits with elected leaders and agency staff, working with local press, engaging youth, media/storytelling, and more. We will ground our session in topics of class, race, accessibility, human dignity, environment, and public health. We will also share at length about the endless benefits of walking/rolling. Each participant will receive an AARP Walk Audit toolkit, AARP Walk Audit sample worksheets, and a copy of WALK book. Session capacity: 35. 

• Speakers/Participants: 

Jonathon Stalls, Marybeth McGinnis​

 

Track 3 - Trail Development Toolbox 

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From how to get started to how to get dirty, hear from the experts how to engage a new generation of trailbuilders to bring your trail idea to life.

 

Breakout Session #1: Building Coalitions to Build Trails (Panel):

• Description: 

Take a stop along the path to developing new trails from the WiBike Toolkit to dive into building coalitions. Hear from panelists about the importance of forming your team and how to get your trails coalition started so you can take your community project from idea to construction.

• Speakers/Participants: 

Missy VanLanduyt, Susan Stauber, Willie Kardis, Jeff Currie​, Luke Kloberdanz

 

Breakout Session #2: Skill Building for Trail Building (Panel):

• Description: 

Delve into different types of trail building schools and learn how to engage volunteers and build their trail construction skills for your projects. Panelists will discuss why sustainable trail building is critical and share new and existing resources for natural surface trail building.

• Speakers/Participants: 

Mike Passo, Lisa Szela, Miranda Murphy, Mike Repyak, Krickett Jewett, Mike Seiler, Renee Griswold​, Jed Olson

 

Afternoon Active "Super Session": WiBike Community Toolkit - Ask the Experts:

• Description: 

In this extra long session, visit with experts from all phases of the WiBike Community Toolkit for developing new trails. Speakers will be available for small group discussion covering forming a team, funding, trail planning and design, and trail maintenance. Participants will have time to move between each station. It’s like speed-dating, but for trailbuilders! Bring your burning trail development questions and get expert advice!

• Speakers/Participants: 

Mike Passo, Lisa Szela, Miranda Murphy, Mike Repyak, Kricket Jewett, Mike Seiler, Renee Griswold, Cheryl Housley, Rick Diermeier, Marty Krueger, Jeff Currie, Ann Currie, Jed Olson, Susan Stauber, Chris James, Willie Karidis, Sara Rigelman, Charlie Carlin, Chris Morgan, Missy VanLanduyt, David Spiegelberg

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Standalone Cycling Without Age "Super Session"

• Description: 

Cycling Without Age is an amazing, vast and, quickly growing community based movement centered around creating connections and recreation for other enabled individuals including the elderly and disabled in communities across the globe. Come learn from our tenured instructors Bill and Linda about the process of creating and implementing a Cycling Without Age program in your community. We will introduce you to the trishaws and the program and give rides to participants! Session capacity: 12.

• Speakers/Participants: 

Bill Fehrenbach, Linda Soltis-Schroeder