Each spring, school transportation departments enter one of the most consequential planning periods of the year. Field trips fill the calendar. Athletic programs expand. Drivers are covering regular assignments, substitutes are filling the gaps, and dispatch is responding to morning challenges. Daily service continues without pause, while everyone in the organization has their eyes on the last day of school. At the same time, however, quieter shifts are already underway. Two veteran drivers have…

The highly anticipated school start is over and it’s time to think more strategically. All of that focus was placed on a short window of time and yet the entire school year still follows. Now, we must shift from microscopic focus to a telescopic focus, allowing us to look into the distance.

The myth of transportation is we think that most of the planning and change management we implement occurs during the summer.

The reality is that the most important and consequential change management practices occur in response to the realities of the successes and failures
that occur at school start.

Shift your focus to the negative. Tackle the stress of school start by addressing organizational negatives, rather than implementing more “positives”.