Welcome to MTEA's new website!

Launched in January 2013, we are pleased to have a bright, new website at http://www.MTEAOnline.org to better serve the needs of our members, associates, aspiring traffic education educators and future members. If you have suggestions for information or services you'd like to see here, send us a note. Also, we would love to post your photos -- Montana Windshield Scenes -- like the one above taken by Fran Penner-Ray. You can upload your photo on our contact page. Please only send us photos you own and for which we can credit you as the photographer. 

REGISTER TO ATTEND
MTEA’S ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Moving Traffic Education Ahead
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA - April 28-30, 2013

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REGISTER BY APRIL 18!
Visit the MTEA Conference page to view the conference agenda, speaker bios, and to download a registration form.

Pre-conference workshop: Journeys from Home Montana is again offering a pre-conference workshop April 27-28 at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls: Middle School: Road Ready, Better Health through Walking and Bicycling. College credit and financial assistance is available.  Visit Journeys from Home Montana for details and to register.

Buckle Up Signs for Montana Schools

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Update 4/3/2013: Buckle Up signs are now in production and are being distributed to more than 110 high schools throughout Montana. The brainchild of Great Falls traffic education teacher, Jerry Olson, the signs are customized for each school and carry a positive message: "We appreciate our students. Please buckle up so we can see you again." 

For more information visit the Traffic Education web page at OPI's web site.

2013 Montana State Legislature:
HB 178 -- Increase funding for Traffic Ed

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Learn more about MTEA's legislative efforts and get involved here! 

Students, parents, teachers and interested citizens are encouraged to show support for HB 178, now being considered by the Senate Highways and Transportation Committee.  Send an email message to the committee.

Track the progress of this bill and read the full text.
APRIL IS NATIONAL DISTRACTED DRIVING 
AWARENESS MONTH
PROJECT YELLOW LIGHT - 2012 WINNING VIDEO

MTEA News

Starting with our Winter 2012 issue, we are posting the membership newsletter on our website. If you are not yet a member, please read about our activities and ways that MTEA can enhance your professional life as a teacher of traffic education. Then, visit our Membership page to join!

MTEA News - Spring 2013 NEW!
MTEA News - Winter 2012
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MTEA is an affiliate of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association

WHAT'S NEW AT OPI?

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Montana Teen Driver Curriculum 2.0.  Have you visited OPI's Traffic Education page lately? New resources for traffic educators are always being added and the Teen Driver Curriculum has a new look and easier navigation to help introduce the ongoing revision of modules through 2012 and into 2013.

While there, you can read and download the updated Traffic Education Standards/Requirements/Procedures for High School Driver Education Programs: an essential guide for every school operating a driver's education program. Visit YOUR Traffic Education page at http://www.opi.mt.gov/Programs/Drivered.
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MONTANA CITIES AND COUNTIES WITH BANS ON THE USE OF HANDHELD CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING.