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ATS-15 Breaking New Ground: Making Active Transportation Viable to Middle and High-School Students, Kelly Hansen
- 1. Middle School Bike Club Bikes: toys for kids and tools for adults. What about teens? Hear how the Community Cycling Center (CCC) is making bikes relevant to middle schoolers. (Hint: it's not about the bike.) CCC Program Manager Kelly Hansen will present on how a Bike Club at Cesar Chavez School got kids riding to school and beyond.
- 2. Creating Healthy, Vibrant Communities
- 3. Community Cycling Center’s Vision
- 5. The Window Principle: Bike Edition
- 6. Problem Solving vs. Bright Spots
- 8. Review 1. It’s not about the bike. 2. Use bright spots to address the real needs of teens.
- 25. “The first [activity] was designing the road. That was interesting because I didn’t know that people actually did that so it was great doing that. The people that were at my table we were all contributing when we set goals and values. That class was mostly about how to make the road better for bikers. That was very great. I did not know they designed roads for bikes and stuff, that was cool. I liked how I learned ways to prevent accidents. We designed bike ways to be safer for people to bike.” - Rosa S
- 27. Review 1. It’s not about the bike. 2. Use bright spots to address the real needs of teens.
- 28. Creating Healthy, Vibrant Communities
Notes de l'éditeur
- Hello and Welcome! Thank you for taking interest in Teen Biking. Let me tell you about myself… youth background, wrote the program for Camp Fire HS Program, New Avenues, Bike Camp, Adventure (kayak, Northwest Youth Corps). Passions: structures and people.
- So, that’s why I am here, personally, Kelly Hansen. But why are you here? I’m guessing it’s because of this. I assume you’re here to create healthy, vibrant communities. This is conveniently aligned with my professional reason for being here… see if you can see the Community Cycling Center’s vision in the next slide.
- 2 reasons to show you this: We have vision alignment! Yay let’s talk! Our vision is not about bikes, trains, or sidewalks – we all know that these things help get us to where we want to go, they are, as we say at the community cycling center, bicycles are tools for empowerment and vehicles for change. I’m going to tell you about our middle school bike club, how it contributes to a healthy, vibrant community. Because we always have this vision in mind, I want to define what that looks like a little more in depth, and I want to do it by telling you about the window principle. When we think of a healthy, vibrant community, we know bikes, sidewalks, public transit are part of it. That’s why we’re here. . . But that isn’t our focus. . .
- The window principle is the idea that a windows purpose is to let us see through it. But when designing windows, it’s easy to get so focused on the window itself, that we end up with something that obscures its initial purpose.
- If we apply this to active transportation, we see how it’s easy to focus on the bike, which is suppose to be the tool to our vision, but really, in designing programming we should be focusing on where we want to go, not the tool to get there. So, what does the window principle have to do with Middle School Biking? We worked hard to design this program with the approach of putting that focuses on viewing what is outside the window, with the belief that it would, in the end, be the best window. . . Or bike program.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbLNOS7MxFc The next thing I’m going to talk about it also incredibly important to understanding our program. Which is, we already knew our program would emphasize the future vision, but how we got there was important. People had been talking to us about designing a Middle School Program. We are experts on organizing people – (slides of all the people we engage?). Folks had said, hey, you’re good at getting people who don’t represent the dominate bike group to bike when it comes to economic status, race, gender, ethnicity – would you take a crack at this other group that doesn’t bike much: middle schoolers. Because here’s the thing, little kids, they love to bike, right? (photo of HBD?), bikes are under the tree with a bow along with a barbie doll or a furby (age!). For people in my age bracket, bikes are transportation, recreation, a way to get out. For teens, bikes don’t fit in any of those catagories. They no longer use them as toys as their priorities and obligations change, and they don’t yet have the tools adults have to navigate their world with weekend rides or commuting prowess. IT’s really easy to ask, what’s wrong? Why aren’t we able to engage with teens and bikes? How do we solve this problem? I want to present a different approach: Bright Spots.
- Our bright spot for engagement with Middle Schoolers was Camp Fire Columbia. Camp Fire is a Youth Development non profit who works in high needs schools across portland to engage with youth. They bring a holistic youth development approach, meaning Holistic Youth Development is a way to think about the ways children and youth grow, learn, and evolve while they are young. Holistic Youth Development includes activities that strengthen the whole young person. More people today understand that child development and youth development does not happen in a straight line. Instead, it is all over for different young people, and is driven by the ecology surrounding children and youth. That ecology includes the adults, other young people, the environment, social and economic realities, culture, and many more parts. Youth who participate in the Camp Fire After School program report high levels of engagement with the program, high levels of connection and satisfaction with program staff, increased positive future orientation, and improved goal management skills. We decided that instead of looking at why middle schoolers aren’t engaging with bikes, we’d look at this bright spot: an organization that targets youth who are at risk of not graduating, and creates a program with positive results for the whole youth (remember, we’re looking to a vision of a healthy vibrant, community). Their practices are in response to the developmental needs to young adolescents, which center on a need for more independence from their families, and acceptance from their social groups. Camp Fire’s program addresses these needs and takes advantage of them by designing programming that meets those needs, including injecting service learning into the program. For those of you who don’t know, serive learning is a teaching and learing stragegy that integrates relevant, meaningful community service with instrution and teamwork. We worked with Camp Fire to weave in bikes to their existing programming at one of their schools: Cesar Chavez in North Portland. We crossed trained each others staff – the camp fire site staff learned about bike safety and protocol, our staff learned about their service learning unit, and we got to work.
- I’m going to go through the actual program now. Two things to keep in mind: 1) notice how it’s not about the bike, 2) notice how we are approaching the development needs of middle schoolers, not imposing on them what to care about.
- Starts out with a typical field trip: Camp Fire has their students plan future-oriented or community-oriented field trips. For example, they might visit a community library, or the Moda Center, or do a tour of Portland State University – they kids decide, so it’s a real mix. One of the students was into BMXing, and the Camp Fire Instructor told him about the Community Cycling Center, where bikes are combined with community action. All the youth got into checking out the price tags on the bikes, and after they found out how expenses bikes were, they were pretty invested in the activity for the field trip, helping clean bikes that would be donated to littler kids at the holiday bike drive.
- Familiarized ourselves with shop
- Ashlely applying grease to the handle bar stem
- The students were working on a needs assessment of their community when we joined up with them. We spend a few days on bike basics, like helmets, rules of the road, and then we did a needs assessment by bike. We traveled to different parks and talked about the community. The youth identified several different issues they were interested in exploring: smoking, violence, and trash.
- Along the way, we had learning moments about bike mechanics. Everyone learned how to remove their wheels and fix flats, as well as route plan using bike maps!
- The youth wanted to go outside of their neighborhood and check out downtown. We took an all day field trip downtown, we all brought our bikes on the MAX!
- Downtown, the youth were taken by the garbage they saw in the willamette river. They decided to have the focus of their service learning project be picking up garbage they observed in the parks they went to, as well as creating easier ways for other kids to clean up the school yard by decorating garbage cans and placing them in parts of the school yard where they found the most trash.
- And we just had fun.
- And got t-shirts.
- And were goofy.
- Our final project day consisted of traveling back the Penensular trail we had used many days as a bike thoroughfare. The youth had noticed garbage collecting along the path.
- We brought a bike trailer, gloves, and trash bags. We picked up garbage along the trail.
- We also took a break and played soccer (the girls won).
- Camp Fire prioritizes building strong relationships with families. Will, our camp fire staff, coordinated dropoffs with families. We did a graduation ride, dropping off each participant off to their families.
- Two weeks after our graduation ride, I came back to pick up supplies. This is the bike rack in front of the school. Five of the bikes here are Community Cycling Center Bike Club bikes. Though commuting had never been our goal, it was a by product. That wrapped up the package of Middle School Bike Club, but it was part of something even bigger toward building healthy, vibrant communities.
- Bike Camp was a next step if the kids were psyched on bikes, or just psyched on hanging out with each other with each other more (remember: developmental needs). Camp gave the opportunity for longer, more in depth rides, and tons of fun.
- Five of the bike club graduates traveled with us to the Youth Bike Summit in Seattle, WA this February.
- So, so wrap up, out approach is key (it’s not about the bike, and use bright spots to address the real needs of youth) We are continuing this program and partnership at George Middle School, also in North Portland.
- Heatlhy, Vibrant Communities