IAQ Tools for Schools
School Health and Indoor Environments Leadership Development Summit (SHIELDS)
Advancing Your Goals with Pacing Events
Pacing events are used to converge various streams of work and interests around a common vision or goal. They are action learning events designed to generate commitments — if designed carefully, any event can be a pacing event.
At the Summit participants collaborated to design nine pacing events. The events will advance the SHIELDS vision and take place throughout the country — check out the list of events to see if one will be near you.
Healthy School Indoor Environments Session at 2013 WA Association of Maintenance & Operations Admin (WAMOA) Meeting
Location: Yakima, WA
Date: Spring 2013
Washington Association of Maintenance and Operations Administrators Spring 2013 conference will provide information for its membership about the roles they play in school facility management and how they can provide a healthy school indoor environment.
Healthy Air and Asthma Triggers
Flagstaff, AZ
Location: Northern Arizona University duBois Conference Center
Date: October 25, 2012
This event raised awareness of the connections between asthma and IAQ and encouraged community-wide collaboration. There were approximately 58 attendees. A superintendant and school nurse presented.
Learn more at: www4.nau.edu/itep/iaqtc/ [Exiting EPA]
Mid-Atlantic Healthy Schools Training Conference (MAHSTC)
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: 2013
This conference will improve IAQ in schools. Attendees will receive training to identify needs and receive resources about IPM, asthma, green cleaning, radon mitigation, mold/moisture control and more.
Unleash your Superpower: Asthma Management Call to Action at the NASN 2013 Conference
Location: Orlando, FL
Date: June 27-30, 2013
This event teaches stakeholders about managing asthma triggers in schools and inspires school nurses to create/join IEQ teams.
Registration Info/Website: www.nasn.org/continuing.. [Exiting EPA]
The Maine Event: Maine Environmental School Health Training Workshop (MESH)
Location: Augusta, ME
Date: March 2013
This workshop will educate schools about the IAQ Tools for Schools process; a state-based intro to comprehensive IAQ management.
Fall 2012 Events
USGBC's International Green Apple Day of Service - September 29, 2012
"Green Apple is a global movement to put all children in schools where they have clean and healthy air to breathe, where energy and resources are conserved, and where they can be inspired to dream of a brighter future."
On September 29, 2012, more than 1,200 communities around the world were involved; events and school improvement projects happened in all 50 states, on every continent, and in more than 50 countries. It is estimated that over 500 volunteers involved in these projects.
As a result of this day of service event, there were 34 million impressions in print, online, television and radio, and in over 1,000 social media posts about events. Out of the 1,256 events held for the Green Apple Day of Service, 52 events specifically committed to indoor environmental improvements and actions.
- Event Contact: Anisa Baldwin-Metzger
- For more information: http://www.mygreenapple.org
Healthy Air and Asthma Triggers - October 25, 2012
This event, held at the Northern Arizona University duBois Conference Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, helped to raise awareness of the connections between asthma and IAQ and encouraged community-wide collaboration. A school superintendant and a school nurse were part of the presenters. There were approximately 58 participants. The audience included tribal environmental, tribal housing, tribal health, tribal clinical and tribal school staff.
- Event Contact: Mansel Nelson at mansel.nelson@nau.edu
- For more information: www4.nau.edu/itep/iaqtc/
Roaches, Rodents and Bedbugs: IPM Schools Webinar - November 28, 2012
This Webinar provided information to educate and empower school district administrators, maintenance and custodial staff and teachers to improve IPM in schools
There were 172 participants from various sectors attending this Webinar. As a result of this
Webinar, 95% of the participants said that using the information shared in the
Webinar, the Webinar would help them more effectively manage their IPM system. Attendees reported that they found the webinar informative, helpful and well presented.
- Event Contacts: Francine Locke and Christina Schulingkamp (Region 3)
- For more information on this Webinar, see www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/webconferences.html
Spring/Summer 2013 Events
March-May
The Maine Event: Maine Environmental School Health Training Workshop (MESH)
- This workshop will educate schools about the IAQ Tools for Schools process; a state-based intro to comprehensive IAQ management.
- Location: Augusta, ME
- Date: March 2013
- Registration Info/Website: TBD
- Event Submitter: Steve Caulfield
Learn How to Integrate Assessing Indoor Environmental Quality into Energy Management and Building Retrofits
- This webinar will inform energy and facility managers and other school environmental health staff about how to integrate an IEQ assessment into their facility management plan.
- Date: Spring 2013
- Registration Info/Website: TBD
- Event Submitter: Katy Hatcher and Michele Curreri
Mid-Atlantic Healthy Schools Training Conference (MAHSTC)
- This conference will improve IAQ in schools. Attendees will receive training to identify needs and receive resources about IPM, asthma, green cleaning, radon mitigation, mold/moisture control and more.
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Date: Spring 2013
- Registration Info/Website: TBD
- Event Submitter: Kevin Stewart and Christina Schulingkamp
Healthy School Indoor Environments Session at 2013 WA Association of Maintenance & Operations Admin (WAMOA) Mtg.
- Washington Association of Maintenance and Operations Administrators Spring 2013 conference will provide information for its membership about the roles they play in school facility management and how they can provide a healthy school indoor environment.
- Location: WA
- Date: Spring 2013
- Registration Info/Website: TBD
- Event Submitter: Merle Kirkley
June-August
Unleash your Superpower: Asthma Management Call to Action at the NASN 2013 Conference
- This event teaches stakeholders about managing asthma triggers in schools and inspires school nurses to create/join IEQ teams.
- Location: Orlando, FL
- Date: June 27-30, 2013
- Registration Info/Website:
www.nasn.org/continuingeducation/annualconference
- Event Submitter: Sheila Brown, Shirley Schantz and Sally Schoessler