STS Highlights: May 2022

May is both Mental Health Awareness Month and National Bike Month!

After the last two years, many people are realizing that stress, isolation, and uncertainty have taken a toll on their mental health. Maintaining good mental health plays a big role in your overall well-being. When you’re mentally healthy, you are able to enjoy your life and the people in it, feel good about yourself, keep up good relationships, and deal with stress.

National Bike Month is a chance to showcase the many benefits of bicycling and encourage more people to give it a try. Cycling is a low impact activity that is great for physical and mental health. It is a good muscle workout and increases cardiovascular fitness, builds muscle strength and flexibility, improves joint mobility, decreases stress levels, and reduces anxiety and depression.

More about National Bike Month

I’ve selected resources below that align with these themes. The goal with these monthly resources is always to help elevate your career, department, or organization. Please FORWARD this email to anyone who could benefit from the content. As always, we take pride in helping you meet your training requirements and goals.

Be healthy,
Patrick

STS Highlights: April 2022

This time of year inevitably brings nicer weather and vacationers. Traffic gets heavier. Crowds get bigger. Also with spring comes allergies. Pull yourself from your histamine fog and take advantage of this month’s curated resources!

The goal with these monthly resources is always to help elevate your career, department, or organization. Please FORWARD this email to anyone who could benefit from the content. As always, we take pride in helping you meet your training requirements and goals.

All the best,
Patrick

National Child Abuse Prevention Month

The campaign recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Autism and the School Bus

Familiarize yourself with behavior management techniques for students with Autism riding the school bus.

Techniques

Driving Pet Peeves

From texting while driving to tailgating, we’ve listed the top 10 gripes among American drivers. Their nuisance level is on a scale of 1-10.

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STS Course Catalog

STS provides a comprehensive offering of online training organized to meet training needs for transportation professionals and other school personnel.

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In-Service

School Bus Drivers often complete some form of annual in-service training to stay familiar with laws, regulations, and driving techniques.

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Observing Child Abuse Prevention & Autism Acceptance in April

April is a very important month for child safety. This month it is common see blue ribbons to signify Child Abuse Prevention and multi-colored ribbons (or puzzle pieces) to acknowledge Autism Awareness.

We have applicable online courses in our catalog. Look for:
Child Abuse: Identification and Reporting (.1 CEU/1 Hour)
Child Abuse: Physical Abuse Awareness (.2 CEUs/2 Hours)
Child Abuse: Sexual Abuse Awareness (.1 CEU/1 Hour)

STS Highlights: March 2022

Spring is in the air, literally. Plants are blooming and pollen is dropping which is why I keep a BIG bottle of antihistamine at the ready. This month we’ve pulled together a selection of resources that seem to be the most popular during spring.

View, use, and share these resources. The goal is to elevate you and your organization. Please FORWARD this email to anyone who could benefit from the content. As always, we take pride in helping you meet your training requirements and goals.

Take care,
Patrick

Cultivating a Stronger Remote Workforce

One of the most visible changes in the workforce since the pandemic began is the prominence of work-from-home employees. If your organization utilizes a WFH team, we can offer an expansive catalog of online training options.

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Employee Readiness

Employee readiness skills like the ability to communicate, cooperate, or compromise enable employee growth and contribute to a pleasant work environment. Our employee readiness training includes a broad selection of courses that assist employees in gaining and maintaining general skills, knowledge, and attributes that enhance their value to the company.

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Emergency Procedures

Sometimes it’s necessary to reevaluate emergency procedures. To assist, we’ve created a best practices flyer in multiple sizes, appropriate for printing and posting.

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STS Course Catalog

STS provides a comprehensive offering of online training organized to meet training needs for transportation professionals and other school personnel.

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In-Service

School Bus Drivers often complete some form of annual in-service training to stay familiar with laws, regulations, and driving techniques.

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5 Questions Answered by New Technology

Technology is constantly transforming the way we live our lives. New technology is also changing the way children are transported to and from school.

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STS Highlights: February 2022

February is our shortest month of the year and thematically, the busiest with Black History Month, Valentine’s Day, Random Acts of Kindness Month, and Canned Food Month. As we navigate through the year, I am choosing a positive outlook and hope you do too. In line with February themes, I plan to focus on:

• Promoting inclusion and diversity
• Practicing sexual harassment awareness
• Engaging in random acts of kindness
• Providing a local food pantry with donated canned goods

In keeping with monthly themes, I’ve curated the resources below.

Appreciatively,
Patrick

Find Your Local Food Pantry

FoodPantries.org is not associated with any government agency or nonprofit organization. Use this website to find and connect with a local food pantry to learn about upcoming food distributions, apply for food programs, or make donations.

Find a Local Food Pantry

Random Acts of Kindness

The work to create a kinder world never ends. You are invited to join the annual Random Acts of Kindness Day (RAK DAY) celebration on February 17, 2022. Spread kindness all month!

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FREE Valentine’s Day Cards

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by printing out these free Valentine’s Day cards. They’ll “drive you wild!”

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Download & Print Set Two

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

This infographic explains the 5 different types of sexual harassment found in the workplace.

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Diversity Training

February is the perfect time to discuss diversity, communication, tolerance, and respect. Consider this online diversity training combo of courses.

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Sexual Harassment Awareness Training Courses

Includes 4 independent lessons:

• Introduction to Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Harassment Awareness Overview
• Sexual Harassment in the Office
• Sexual Harassment: Prevention and Response

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It’s Flu Season!

The CDC’s recommendation for getting a flu vaccine for the 2021-22 flu season is: GET THE SHOT! Flu viruses are constantly changing so it’s not unusual for new ones to appear. A lot of research goes into each year’s vaccine. You should not wait for activity to be rising or high in your community to get a flu shot. The best way to reduce the risk of flu and its potentially serious complications is by getting vaccinated each year.

CDC Influenza Resources

Covid-19 & Variants

Prevention Measures to protect against respiratory illness like Covid-19 and Variants remain largely the same.

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