The Air Isn’t Fair

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org
Celebrating Earth Day Gifts

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org
Community Research: A Catalyst for Social Impact?

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org

The Air Isn’t Fair

After protest chants of “I can’t breath!,” have faded from our streets, we can look at another important social and equity issue: Poor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) affecting millions of students in our schools. For decades, schools–especially schools in low income districts–have been failing to provide students with the level of air quality which we…
Celebrating Earth Day Gifts

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Community Research: A Catalyst for Social Impact?

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Creating Healthy, Smart Schools

If we wish to create schools that promote the health, learning and lives of our students, we must involve students as full partners in this adventure.

When students help design and maintain their school environment, they gain knowledge, voice and responsibility.

In turn, the school gets expert advice on what works for kids, innovative ideas and children who feel ownership for their school.

Creating healthier, smarter schools starts and ends with creating healthier, smarter students, empowered by their learning, actions and decisions.

The following posts include :

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise, a learning project that involves students in understanding and improving their school environment,

A report on a Sustainability Study of Southwest Baltimore Charter School,

Videos of students and teachers describing how their energy study led to the installation of solar tubes to help light their school

School energy experts describing potential savings and successful energy challenges.

and an outline of Innovate your School, an upcoming innovation challenge at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

I look forward to adding more projects to this list soon. Do you have some that we should post here?

Let’s share this new way of empowering our children and improving our schools.

-shan

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Creating Healthy, Smart Schools

If we wish to create schools that promote the health, learning and lives of our students, we must involve students as full partners in this adventure.

When students help design and maintain their school environment, they gain knowledge, voice and responsibility.

In turn, the school gets expert advice on what works for kids, innovative ideas and children who feel ownership for their school.

Creating healthier, smarter schools starts and ends with creating healthier, smarter students, empowered by their learning, actions and decisions.

The following posts include :

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise, a learning project that involves students in understanding and improving their school environment,

A report on a Sustainability Study of Southwest Baltimore Charter School,

Videos of students and teachers describing how their energy study led to the installation of solar tubes to help light their school

School energy experts describing potential savings and successful energy challenges.

and an outline of Innovate your School, an upcoming innovation challenge at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

I look forward to adding more projects to this list soon. Do you have some that we should post here?

Let’s share this new way of empowering our children and improving our schools.

-shan

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