Best Practices, Tools, and Technology to Manage Transportation

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Best Practices, Tools, and Technology to Manage Transportation 

Presented by Tatia Prieto, Ed.D., MBA, PMP, Prismatic Services 

Running buses shouldn't take a district-sized department, and it doesn't have to. Only about half of North Carolina's charter schools offer transportation, which means the ones that do are figuring it out largely on their own. This session hands you the shortcuts. In one sitting you'll get the three standards that actually define a good operation: 

• Safe 
• On-time 
• As cheap as possible

You'll also get a clear-eyed look at how routes quietly go sideways. Schedules drift. Stops get combined or dropped. Approved changes never happen. We'll cover the questions you should be asking your bus contractor before small problems turn into board-meeting problems. If you've ever wondered whether your buses are really as full as they look, or whether morning drop-offs are truly on time, you'll walk out knowing how to find out. 

Better yet, you'll leave with tools you can put to work the very next morning, most of them free or nearly so: 

• JotForm 
• Google Forms and Sheets 
• QR codes 
• SurveyMonkey 
• Parent apps

We'll show live examples of how to set permissions so dispatchers can edit, transportation staff can comment, and school offices can view. You'll see how to turn your parent community into extra eyes on late buses, how a single survey link in your email signature can surface problems early, and how to publish your performance numbers in a way that makes your program look as good as it is. Come for one focused hour, leave with a metric to track, a toolkit to track it with, and a resource list complete with pricing. Bring your toughest transportation headache, and we'll talk through it.