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The Webinar explained how conducting school walkthroughs is a vital step in having a comprehensive IAQ management program that identifies and diagnoses IAQ issues. Featured speakers were David Blake, Northwest Clean Air Agency and Richard Prill, Washington State University.

• Questions and Answers from the Virtual School Walkthrough Webinar PDF (4 pp, 90 K, about PDF)

Resource:

Northwest Clean Air Agency online training Web site entitled “The Virtual School Walkthrough: Identifying and Solving Common Indoor Air Quality Problems". Visit www.nwcleanair.org/aqPrograms/indoorAir.htm  Watch the video chapter links located on the right hand side bar: Getting Started, Walk-through, Outside, Inside, Classrooms, Fixes, and Debrief.

This Webinar continues our series designed to highlight key aspects of The Framework for Effective School IAQ Management, focused on effectively managing chemical in schools. The Webinar featured chemical management speakers Kristina Meson (U.S. EPA's School Chemical Cleanout Campaign), Michelle Lusk (CKRC) and Francine Locke (The School District of Philadelphia, PA) who shared with technical expertise, best practices and resources schools can use to effectively management their school chemicals.

• Webinar Slides (PDF) (79 pp., 1.78 M)
• Webinar (Synced slides with audio) (WMV, 1:14:24, 47.8 M) | Transcript (TXT, 73 K)

Featured: Kenny Foscue from the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Dan Tranter from the Minnesota Department of Public Health and Tobie Bernstein from the Environmental Law Institute – all of whom have helped promote effective, collaborative models for advancing IAQ management programs in schools statewide. The speakers shared their experiences for integrating IAQ Tools for Schools guidance into state initiatives to improve school environments, obstacles facing state initiatives and resources to propel success and strategies to leverage the success of other state initiatives.
 

• Webinar Slides (PDF) (51 pp., 791 K)
• Webinar Transcript (PDF) (22 p., 242 K)
• Webinar Questions and Answers (PDF) (2 pp., 74 K)

The Webinar, the latest in a series designed to highlight key aspects of The Framework for Effective School IAQ Management, focused on the importance of addressing integrated pest management (IPM) in schools. The Webinar featured integrated pest management (IPM) speakers Sherry Glick (U.S. EPA), Dr. Thomas Green (The IPM Institute of North America, Inc.), Gregg Smith (Salt Lake City School District) and Bob Stoddard (EnviroSafe, Inc.) who shared their expertise, best practices and resources schools can use to develop an integrated pest management program.

• Launch the Webinar (WMV, 1:12:49, 49.4 M)
• Webinar Transcript (PDF) (17 pp., 224 K)
• Webinar Slides (PDF) (60 pp, 3.75 M)

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• Questions and Answers from Webinar (PDF) (8 pp., 103 K)

The Webinar, the latest in a series of technical web conference calls, provided expert advice, practical steps and new resources for reducing exposures to environmental asthma triggers in schools. The Webinar featured pediatric environmental health experts Drs. Robert Geller and Leslie Rubin, Director and Co-Director of the Emory Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit located in Atlanta, Georgia.

• Launch the Webinar (SWF, 1:22:31, 36.8 M) | (Transcript, 63 K)
• Listen to the Webinar (MP3, 1:22:31, 75.5 M)
• Slides and Polling Questions (PDF) (11 pp., 998 K)

Resources:

• Questions and Answers from Webinar (PDF) (12 pp., 120 K)
• Managing Asthma in the School Environment Resource Listing (PDF) (2 pp., 49 K)

The Webinar, first in a series of technical web conference calls, provided the fundamentals and best-practices for conducting a school facility walk-through. Attendees left empowered to perform a close evaluation of the state of their school district's facilities overall IAQ and learned strategies for identifying and addressing common IAQ issues.

• Presentation Slides (PDF) (16 pp., 571 K)
• Questions and Answers (PDF) (4 pp., 112 K)

Resource:

Northwest Clean Air Agency online training Web site entitled “The Virtual School Walkthrough: Identifying and Solving Common Indoor Air Quality Problems". Visit www.nwcleanair.org/aqPrograms/indoorAir.htm  Watch the video chapter links located on the right hand side bar: Getting Started, Walk-through, Outside, Inside, Classrooms, Fixes, and Debrief.

The Webinar built on the momentum from the recent 10th IAQ Tools for Schools Symposium, where national experts and school leaders discussed effective IAQ management strategies.  Participants learned how to apply the IAQ Tools for Schools Program Framework to real-world challenges in order to overcome obstacles so they don't become roadblocks to success.  They also heard about opportunities to access expertise and resources through the IAQ Tools for Schools Connector.

Slides

• The Framework for Effective School IAQ Management: Six Key Drivers (PDF) (1 page, 942 K)
• The Framework for Effective School IAQ Management: Six Technical Solutions (PDF) (1 page, 191 K)
• Slides from the Webinar (68 slides on 12 pages) (PDF) (12 pp., 761 K)

Resources

• Guiding Principals Worksheet (DOC, 1 page, 93 K)
• Key Driver SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) (DOC, 1 page, 34 K)
• Technical Solutions Plus-Delta Worksheet (DOC, 1 page, 93 K)

Building on the momentum from the recent IAQ Tools for Schools Symposium, this Webinar brought together national experts and school leaders to discuss effective IAQ management strategies. Participants learned how the IAQ Tools for Schools Framework can help develop, enhance, and sustain healthy learning environments in their school districts. In addition, participants learned about opportunities to interact with their IAQ management peers through the IAQ Tools for Schools Connector. Attendees heard from David Rowson (U.S. EPA), Brian Kasher (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, NC), and Dave Hill (with Blue Valley School District #229, KS.

• Presentation Slides (46 slides) (PDF) (8 pp., 188 K)

This is one in a series of technical web conference calls whose purpose is to assist schools with the most important part of their schools IAQ management plan -- the school walkthrough. Learn the secrets to performing easy school walkthroughs from national school assessment experts - and featured IAQ Tools for Schools Symposium speakers, Rich Prill (Washington State University) and Dave Blake (NW Clean Air Agency) and two recent award-winning school IAQ management programs, Blue Valley Schools (Overland Park, Kansas) and The School Board of Broward County (Broward, Florida).

• Presentation (PDF, 95 pp., 9.7 M)
• Summary (PDF, 8 pp., 445 K)

This is a follow-up with past IAQ Tools for Schools National Symposium attendees. The purpose of the call is to turn the energy and enthusiasm fostered at the Symposium into action back in the school districts of past attendees. Three recent award-winning school IAQ management programs, Amity Regional School District No. 5 (Woodbridge, Connecticut), Omaha Public Schools (Nebraska), and Visalia Unified School District (California) were featured on the call.
 

• Presentation (PDF, 17 pp., 2.6 M)
• Summary (PDF, 14 pp., 100 K)

• Presentation (PDF, 6 pp., 93 K)

• Presentation (PDF, 12 pp., 135 K)
• Summary (PDF, 8 pp., 47 K)
• Student IAQ Project (PDF, 9 pp., 95 K)

• Presentation (PDF, 8 pp., 320 K)
• Summary (PDF, 14 pp., 124 K)

• Presentation (PDF, 17 pp., 1 M)
• Summary (PDF, 6 pp., 73 K)

• Presentation (PDF, 17 pp., 359 K)
• Summary (PDF, 12 pp., 117 K)
• Summertime Maintenance Tips (PDF, 1 page, 1.2 M)

• Presentation (PDF, 20 pp., 893 K)
• Summary (PDF, 8 pp., 88 K)
• Sample Complaint/Request Form (PDF, 1 page, 372 K)

• Presentation (PDF, 10 pp., 117 K)
• Summary (PDF, 10 pp., 105 K)
• Sample Letter to Principal (DOC, 1 page, 25 K)
• Sample IAQ Update (DOC, 1 page, 54 K)