Pillar
Two: Positive Impact on Student and
Staff Health
Pillar Two
focuses on high standards of coordinated school health, which includes:
- Integrated school/district environmental health program
- High standards of nutrition, fitness and outdoor time
Environmental Health Program
Classroom Acoustics Coalition - Provides important background on the
nature and scope of the problems caused by bad acoustics in classrooms, and
offers practical planning strategies and methods to avoid or correct bad
acoustics in existing or planned educational facilities.
EPA Website
for Healthy Schools - EPA's comprehensive schools website offers all
the resources you need to establish, maintain or enhance a school environmental
health program.
EPA website for Indoor Air Quality - Air quality and indoor environmental quality
are critical to providing a healthy and productive learning environment. This includes IAQ Tools for
Schools as well as managing asthma. Multiple resources are available including
information on air quality and student performance.
GREENGUARD Certification for air quality.
Mom's
Clean Air Force - Moms Clean Air Force is a
community of moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent
crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children's health.
Nutrition, Fitness and Outdoor Time
Inside Urban Green - Modern methods of
growing food, foliage or flowers for the millions of us who are not green thumbs.
Local
Harvest - For
over 25 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way
for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer.
National
Organic Program - Ensuring the
integrity of USDA organic products in the U.S. and throughout the world.