Oregon Safe Routes to School News
Bicycle Safety Education at McGovern Elementary
Learning how to properly ride a bicycle is an important skill, and one that can enrich a young person's life by giving them a new outlet for exercise, freedom to take trips easily, and experience commuting via different modes. At McGovern Elementary School, in...
Oregon celebrates Winter Walk+Roll to School Day
Students around Oregon celebrated Winter Walk+Roll to School Day on February 23rd, 2022, showing that walking and rolling to school is fun to do all year long. A Commute Options volunteer walks with Bear Creek Elementary Walking School Bus students on Winter Walk+Roll...
Resources for Indigenous Land Acknowledgements
Our March statewide webinar (3/15 from 11am-12pm) invites Safe Routes to School advocates throughout Oregon to consider not only the opportunities and challenges of SRTS programming on Tribal lands, but to recognize and honor the ancestral Indigenous land in Oregon...
2021 Walk+Roll Spring Challenge Art Contest Winners
Thank you so much to the dozens of students across Oregon who submitted entries into our Walk+Roll Spring Challenge 2021 art contest. Students were asked to walk or roll and draw what they saw (or wished they saw) while on their trip. Below are the pieces from our...
The Oregon Transportation Commission approves 43 projects for Safe Routes to School funding
Great news! Oregon students are getting more street crossing improvements, sidewalks, and bikeways near schools! The Oregon Department of Transportation Safe Routes to School Program awarded 43 new grants to communities to build street safety projects that address...
Neighborhood Navigators 2.0
The new Oregon Safe Routes to School Neighborhood Navigators 2.0 curriculum is out and ready for you to use! The series of lessons are grouped for grade levels: Early Elementary (K- Grade 3), Elementary (Grades 3-5) and Middle (Grades 6-8). Each section has some...