Ted Finlayson-Schueler

Safety Rules!

Mr. Ted Finlayson-Schueler
118 Shirley Road Syracuse, 13224

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Education, Certifications & Awards
M.S. In Adult Education from Syracuse University New York State Education Department Certified School Bus Driver Instructor and Master Instructor New York State Department of Motor Vehicles approved 19-A Certified Examiner State University of New York at Albany Graduate study in Pupil Transportation Adminsitration Long Island University Director of Pupil Trasportation Certificate Additional study at Penn State University (including bus accident investigation), ... Read More M.S. In Adult Education from Syracuse University New York State Education Department Certified School Bus Driver Instructor and Master Instructor New York State Department of Motor Vehicles approved 19-A Certified Examiner State University of New York at Albany Graduate study in Pupil Transportation Adminsitration Long Island University Director of Pupil Trasportation Certificate Additional study at Penn State University (including bus accident investigation), Tompkins-Cortland Community College, and the Federal Transit Administration Transportation Safety Institute (including Transit Bus Driver Instructor and Systems Safety) Close
Areas of Expertise
I have spent the past 25 years in school transportation, and the past twenty years in school transportation safety. I founded and ran for 15 years a nonprofit school bus safety organization that provides vital safety materials and information to the school transportation community. I have written operations and training manuals, I have done research and written depositions for legal cases, I have trained school bus driver instructors and trainers of instructors. Specific areas of expertise in ... Read More I have spent the past 25 years in school transportation, and the past twenty years in school transportation safety. I founded and ran for 15 years a nonprofit school bus safety organization that provides vital safety materials and information to the school transportation community. I have written operations and training manuals, I have done research and written depositions for legal cases, I have trained school bus driver instructors and trainers of instructors. Specific areas of expertise inclus school bus route and bus stop safety, school site pedestrian safetry, special education transportation, and school transportation policy and operations. Close

Keywords: school bus driver training, special needs transportation, school transportation, buses.

Categories: Buses & School Safety & Vehicular Accidents & Disabilities

Bio

President, Safety Rules! Safety Rules (www.safetyrules.net - as of 12/1/2004) is dedicated to being a powerful force for school travel safety through consultation with school districts, providing expert witness services, writing school transportation instructional and operational manuals and programs, speaking for state and national conferences and local stff inservices.

Executive Director, Pupil Transportation Safety Institute (www.ptsi.org) Founded and directed the development of the nonprofit school bus safety organization through its first 15 years of growth, growing both income and staff exponentially. 1990-2004

Graduate Assistant, Syracuse University Department of Adult Education, Syracuse, NY 1989-1990

Program Supervisor, New York State Education Department Regional School Transportation Safety Center at Cayuga Onondaga BOCES, Auburn, NY 1985-1989

Weekend Terminal Manager and School Bus Driver, Leon Franklin, Inc. Syracuse, NY 1979-1985

Author and Editor

School Site Safety: for vehicle and pedestrian traffic, 1990

New York State Education Department Safe Routes - Safe Stops, 1992

New York State Education Department Seat Belts and School Buses: the safety equation 1994

New York State Education Department Basic Course for School Bus Drivers, 1998

New York State Education department Profession Development Seminar Curriculum for School Bus Driver Instructors, 1999

Washngton State Department of Transportation Building a Community Bus 2003

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Exceptional Children Transportation Study, 2000

New York State Governor's Traffic Safety Committee, School Bus Crash Data Analysis, 2001

Washington, DC Public Schools, Ride Time study and School Site Planning Review (with Dunlop and Associates) 2003

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Ted Finlayson-Schueler

Safety Rules!

Education, Certifications & Awards

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