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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Speak up, students!

Are Baltimore schools starting to pay attention to student
leadership and ideas?

Schools often talk about preparing students for citizenship, but rarely offer students a voice or a seat at the table on issues that affect them.

But if the student leadership conference at Johns Hopkins University is any indication, Dr. Santelises, the CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, is ready to for students to take a larger role in improving their schools. Urging students to speak up about problems in their schools and to be problem solvers, Santelises casts her vote for our students and our future.

And these students, who collaborated thoughtfully and compassionately throughout the day, are ready to step up, speak up, and help solve problems at their schools.

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Speak up, students!

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