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Cool Green Schools

  • The Air Isn’t Fair

    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

Tag: Baltimore City Public Schools

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  • From Separate and Unequal: Finding a Path Forward for Baltimore.

    When we talk about transforming Baltimore City Public Schools, we are talking about creating a new path for our children and the future of Baltimore. We are talking about mending century long divides and segregation which still exist in our schools and our neighborhoods. We are talking about the white and middle class flight from…

  • If you want students to learn, let them test their schools.

    Every year our schools test students. And every year these tests show that students in Baltimore City Public Schools perform far below state averages on all subjects. If we want better results, we need to invert the equation. Students should test their schools. This changes everything. As students study their school, they become scientists, problem…

  • So.. Your Plan is to Move the School Closer to the Superfund Site?

    Ever discover something a little late into the process? “You aren’t eating those blackberries, are you?.. Didn’t you know this is a Superfund site?” The president of the neighborhood association was looking at me with concern as my blue stained fingers and lips were answering her questions all by themselves as I froze, wide-eyed in…

  • Learning By Design: How the 21st Century School Building project can create better learning, collaboration and schools.

    Building More Than Buildings: How the 21st Century Building Project can improve our learning, collaboration, and the schools we build.   When Andre Alonso announced the funding of the 21st Century School Building project in Baltimore City, he restated a quote from Winston Churchill: “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” It is a…

  • Experiment You

    How Students Can Improve Their Health And Learning.   Our schools constantly test our students to measure their achievement. But if we want to improve student achievement, it’s time for students to test their schools.   Are classrooms too hot or too cold? Are pest and mold problems causing asthma attacks and absences? Are students…

  • The Importance of Being Insistent

    Improving school environments requires insistence and verification that changes are implemented at schools. Students can provide this verification through STEM or science projects benchmarking the health and environmental conditions at their school.

  • Learning about the Real Stuff

    In a room filled with scientists, researchers and government officials, two seniors from City College High School, Nil Walker and Cameron Potts are answering questions about their summer research project. They explain how they collected and counted mosquito larvae, tested the water quality and velocity in local steams and counted pollinators. Potts tells how they…

  • Historic Energy and Water Data, Baltimore City Public Schools

    WATER-SEWER_Five_Year_Comparison-1-8-14 Historical Natural Gas Data-end year FY13 Historical Oil # 2 Data-end year FY13 Historical Electric Data-end year FY13 Historical Steam Data-end year FY13 BCPSS-FY 11 UTILITIES revised with jacobs sq ft. BCPS-FY-14 all facilities