School Toolkits, Guides, Resources
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The EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Action Kit shows schools how to carry out a practical plan to improve indoor air problems at little- or no-cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff. The Action Kit provides best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies, and a sample IAQ management plan.
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The Childsafe School
Provides a step-by-step framework to help parents, teachers and administrators make their schools as environmentally safe as they can be, by adopting policies that prohibit the idling of school buses and other vehicles, mandate the use of safe cleaning products, and eliminate the use of pesticides on school grounds and playing fields. What we love about this program is that it addresses wireless technology, advocates for organic pest management, and provides advocacy guides for families. |
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Center for Health, Environment and Justice: The Green Flag Program
A project of the national Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign. The program’s goal is to help communities make schools healthier while educating students about environmental issues. They offer a flexible three-step program with templates for environmental surveys, outreach letters to families, flyers and posters to help advance your school’s environmental behaviors. What we love about this program is the way it provides celebratory benchmarks along the way and recognition with the Green Flag of Environmental Leadership. |
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Children's Environmental Health Network's Eco-Healthy Child Care Program
A national program that partners with child care professionals to eliminate or reduce environmental health hazards found within or around child care facilities. They have a checklist that provides 30 easy-to-follow steps to reduce environmental health hazards in your child care facility. They address safe drinking water, waste reduction, and non-toxic playground equipment, classroom supplies, cleaning, pest and chemical management. They also offer STEM educational components. Child care providers who comply with 24 of these steps can become EHCC endorsed. |
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Green Schools Alliance
Whole-School Sustainability centers on the imperative that to be successful, schools need to incorporate sustainable solutions into their physical place, organizational culture, and educational programs. Green Schools Alliance develops innovative tools and programs, in collaboration with schools, to guide sustainability champions toward achieving this goal. Our Kids Deserve Healthy Schools | RealClearEducation |
