AASA Indoor Air Quality Programs and Resources
AASA is committed to being a resource to all schools in this country on indoor air quality. The Association disseminates information to increase the number of school leaders conversant about indoor air quality and its effects on children. Below are several indoor air quality resource options available to school leaders through AASA and the EPA, as well as other organizations. For more information about AASA’s healthy school environments visit our website at http://www.aasa.org/ChildrensPrograms.aspx.
Essential Resources for Schools
American Association of School Administrators:
· School House in the Red: An Administrator's Guide to Improving America's School Facilities and Environment – This resource includes information on the state of school facilities, indoor air quality, financing improvements, asthma, energy efficiency and liability.
· Putting the Pieces Together: An Urban School Leader's Guide to Healthy Indoor Environments – This guide offers practical action steps for every school leadership role to ensure that the school indoor air environment is comfortable, adequate and healthy.
· Building Success, Leading Change: Stories of Healthy School Environments – This publication highlights the IAQ accomplishments of school districts and shares their successes of using superintendent leadership and collaboration to create environments conducive to learning.
· Ask the Experts – This tool allows school system leaders and their staff to receive answers to their questions about indoor air quality from experts in the field. The topics focus on the six technical solutions of the EPA's Effective School IAQ Management. Environmental asthma triggers are also covered.
· Asthma Communications Toolkit – This comprehensive communications resource from AASA was developed in conjunction with the National School Boards Association and made possible with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It contains information, forms, and templates to communicate about asthma management in schools with staff, parents, the community, and the media.
· School Governance & Leadership,Spring 2003 – This issue of School Governance & Leadership covers asthma, indoor air quality, asthma management, policies and procedures in schools, and liability and litigation issues.
· Powerful Practices: A Checklist for School Districts Addressing the Needs of Students with Asthma – This checklist is intended for school administrators to use to help identify areas of asthma management your district is already doing well, as well as areas on which to focus attention.