The Green School - Foundation of Education 2 - A green school is a school that creates a healthy environment conducive to learning, while saving energy, environmental resources, and money.

1. THE GREEN SCHOOL

2. What is Green School?
A green school is a school that creates a healthy environment
conducive to learning, while saving energy, environmental
resources, and money.
A green school
1. reduces environmental impacts and costs,
2. improves occupants’ health and performance, and
3. increases environmental and sustainability literacy
to be green schools.

3. The terms Green School and Green Education are often used
interchangeably. Scholars and laymen alike continuously adopt
Green Education and similar terms to describe both formal and
informal environmental studies. A simple activity such as
introducing children to recycling can also be perceived as Green
Education, since it instills awareness in people about the effects
of their actions on the Earth and on other people.

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GREEN SCHOOL
Green, healthy, and high-performance schools provide many
benefits for students, teachers, parents and the community,
including:
Protect Health
Asthma is the primary cause of poor school attendance, and
schools with poor indoor air quality usually have numerous
asthma precursors. Schools built with more daylighting, better
ventilation, and healthy green building materials, like non-VOC
carpets and paints, are healthier for students and staff, and result
in fewer sick days.
Increase Student Performance
A lack of fresh air can reduce student attentiveness. Studies
have shown that student test scores can improve up to 20%
when kids learn in green classrooms that have more daylighting,
improved classroom acoustics, and healthier paints and carpets
that don’t release toxic chemicals into the air.

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GREEN SCHOOL
Save Energy, Save Money
Operating costs for energy and water in a green school can be
reduced by 20% to 40%, directing more funding towards teacher
salaries, textbooks, and computers.
Reduce Carbon Emissions
Green schools significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Building 34 new green schools in Los Angeles alone would
reduce 94,000 tons of CO2 — the equivalent of eliminating more
than 15,000 cars from the road every year, or planting more than
280,000 trees.

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GREEN SCHOOL
Reduce Water Usage
On average, a green school reduces water usage by 32%. This
reduction has direct savings for the building, as well as
substantial societal benefits, such as reducing stormwater runoff,
and transporting and treating wastewater.
Improve Teacher Retention
A green school can reduce teacher turnover by as much as 5%,
which improves student learning and school community, and can
result in financial savings for the school.

7. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GREEN SCHOOL
Improve Daily Attendance
Students in green schools are absent less frequently. By
reducing absenteeism just 15%, a typical elementary school
would save $40,000 to $60,000.
Provide A Unique Educational Opportunity
Buildings can become teaching tools and important features of
science, math, and environmental curriculum when green
features and advanced technology and design in schools are
used to excite kids about learning real world applications of
green technologies. BPS is committed to using schools and
schoolyards as living laboratories

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GREEN SCHOOL
Create Green Jobs
Investing in building green schools is an investment in green
jobs, including green construction, building product
manufacturing, and green architecture.
Improve Equity
Greening public schools creates an opportunity to improve the
health and educational settings for all students, while taking into
account students’ diverse identities and needs.

9. A green school is about more than curriculum, more than
programming and more than bricks and mortar. It’s a school that
supports global sustainability in every way. A green school
begins with the future in mind, designing a learning experience
for students that will prepare them to lead the world toward a
healthier, cleaner, more sustainable future. It’s three pillars are:
(1) reduced environmental impact, (2) increased health and well-
being, (3) increased environmental and sustainability literacy for
all graduates

10. Environmental impact
Reducing environmental impact includes reducing energy and
water use, cutting back on fossil fuel used in transportation,
reducing waste headed to landfill and protecting natural habitats.

11. Health and well-being
Protecting student and teacher health includes ensuring a clean
and healthy indoor environment in the school, as well as
providing programs and services for good nutrition and physical
activity. Paying attention to health in schools has an impact on
well-being and learning.

12. Environmental and sustainability literacy
Teaching students about sustainability and the environment gives
them the tools they need to solve the global challenges we face
now and in the future. Education that supports this type of
literacy includes both curriculum and instructional practices that
are interdisciplinary, place-based and rooted in the context that
uniquely surrounds each student. This education impacts student
understanding and action.

13. REFERENCE:
https://bostongreenschools.org/what-is-a-green-school/
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