Let's Go Walk and Bike Education Program
What is Let's Go?
Since 2015, we have funded the Let's Go Walk and Bike Education program at Seattle Public Schools. The program gets students in 3rd-8th grades on bikes each year to practice their biking and walking safety skills.
Who makes Let's Go happen?
SDOT funds the program and Seattle Public Schools partners with Cascade Bicycle Club and Outdoors for All to operate it. Including Outdoors for All opens the program to students with disabilities by offering a wide array of adaptive bikes as well as an adapted curriculum.
How is it going?
Each year Let’s Go (the elementary program) and Let’s Go Further (the middle school program) reaches thousands of students totaling almost 18,000 students during the 2024-25 school year. Also during the 2024-25 school year, Physical Education teachers reported 740 students learning to ride a bike.
How can I support Let's Go?
Volunteer in the classroom! Learn how you can help fit helmets, unload equipment, and/or support new riders.
When asked in math class to “write about some things you’re proud of,” one student responded: "One thing I am proud of is when I learned how to ride a bike because when I was 5-8 years old I never got the knowledge I needed from my parents, since they don’t know English. So I was desperate to learn how to bike, and at school I got my chance. At PE we started to use bikes for 2 weeks, and my PE teacher noticed that there are people who don’t know how to ride a bike, so she split the gym in half, one side for practice biking, the other side for learn how to bike. She also said we can come in the gym to learn at recess, so I did exactly that for a week straight, no recess at all! But it was worth it. On Mondays most of the time me and my parents go to Jefferson Park and bike there."
— J.M, 8th grader at Mercer Middle School
"[Your son] will have lots of bike riding stories tonight. He did amazing on his bike in PE and is SOOO proud of himself. He told himself to believe in himself and off he went. It was the highlight of my day!"
— 3rd Grade Physical Education Teacher, Email to Parent
Keep learning at home with the Cascade Bicycle Club Video Series:
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