America Walks is happy to announce that the appliance interval to affix this 12 months’s Strolling School fellowship class is open by February 16, 2026.
Now in its twelfth 12 months, the Strolling School is America Walks’ signature coaching program aimed toward strengthening our grassroots partnerships to attain safer, more healthy, extra walkable streets and communities.
This system will run on-line from mid-April by July. It’s open to these interested by honing their expertise and understanding round bettering group design to make streets safer for strolling, rolling, biking, and public transit. Paired with skilled leaders and mentors, fellows will study the fundamentals of people-first design and coverage, together with elementary management expertise. In addition they will determine a chance they hope to deal with of their communities and develop motion plans to attain this transformation.
We welcome all candidates demonstrating a normal understanding of and curiosity within the significance of walkability (and different types of energetic transportation) and a want to change into more practical in bettering group design for all folks. There are not any restrictions on age or skilled background, however we prioritize these making use of in groups of two–3 folks and, this 12 months, these representing rural communities.
This system is generally asynchronous (digital), with individuals being assigned a collection of studying and writing actions every week. They’re additionally anticipated to:
Attend a one-hour on-line dialogue with their assigned group as soon as each module
Take part in a digital teaching session with their mentor as soon as each module
Full an motion plan that outlines a group design resolution and collection of steps for bettering walkability/multi-modal transit of their group by the top of the time period
The Strolling School is funded by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s Division of Diet, Bodily Exercise and Weight problems in help of the Energetic Individuals, Wholesome Nation Initiative℠.
