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In The Rearview · Live Panel Series

Lessons Learned from The Back to School Crunch

Six transportation leaders compare notes on the back-to-school crunch. Routing changes. Late enrollments. Driver shortages. New drivers. The lessons you normally only get by talking shop at a conference.

What we'll dig into

Three problems every operation hit this fall.

Late enrollment

A student moved in July and nobody told you until day 2. What happens in your office in the next hour?

Driver shortage

Everybody says driver shortage. What actually moved the needle for you this year?

New + substitute drivers

A driver runs a route for the very first time on day one. What do you give them so it's not a guess?

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Free · Live on Zoom · Replay included · No sales pitch
Who you'll hear from

Two panels. Two dates. Six transportation leaders.

Different directors. Different conversations. Attend either or join both.

Panel 1 · September 9
Sep 9
1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT · 60 min on Zoom
MM
Marc Medina
Supervisor of Transportation, Farmingdale SD, NY
NYAPT President
BT
Belinda Tallent
Supervisor of Transportation, Huron Valley Schools, MI
MS
Mike Satterfield
Chief of Transportation, Forsyth County Schools, GA
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Panel 2 · September 23
Sep 23
2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT · 60 min on Zoom
PO
Peggie L. Overton
Director of Transportation, Agua Fria Union HSD, AZ
DW
Dawnett Wright
Director of Transportation, Peninsula SD, WA
NAPT Region 5 Director
BB
Ben Bennett
Transportation Director, Emmett SD, ID
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Want both? Pick "Both sessions" in the form and we'll send you two calendar invites.
Registration

Pick your session

Takes 20 seconds. You'll get a calendar invite right away and the checklist after the session.

Sep 9 at 1:00 PM ET with Marc, Belinda and Mike
Sep 23 at 2:00 PM ET with Peggie, Dawnett and Ben
Replay and the Back-to-School Checklist, even if you can't attend live
Free to attend. We'll email your Zoom link and a calendar invite. No sales pitch during the session.
What we will be discussing

The hard part of back to school was never the first day. It was everything that had to be right before it.

Every district hits the same wall in late summer. Very few people get to compare notes on how they got through it. These are the questions we are putting to the panel:

1
Walk me through what happens when a class of 5th graders becomes a class of 6th graders in your system. What breaks first?
2
A student moved in July and nobody told you until day 2. What happens in your office in the next hour?
3
Everybody says driver shortage. What actually moved the needle for you this year?
4
A driver runs a route for the very first time on day one. What do you give them so it is not a guess?
What you get

Register once. Walk away with three things.

The full replay
Everyone who registers gets the recording, including the open floor. Watch it with your dispatch team.
The Back-to-School Checklist
10 things to fix before next season, pulled straight from what the six directors tell us.
A raffle for your team
Drawn live at the halfway point of each session. Only attendees in the room are eligible to win.
Children with backpacks boarding a yellow school bus on a sunny day.
Let's go
Sixty minutes with the people who just lived it. Pick a date, bring a question, leave with the checklist.
In The Rearview
Sep 9 · Sep 23 · Free