Kentucky Green and Healthy Schools Program

ongoing (no deadline)

The Kentucky Green and Healthy Schools (KGHS) Program is a new, voluntary effort to empower students and staff with the tools needed to take action and make their school operate at peak efficiency. Schools participate as student’s inventory current school operations and environments and implement action plans to improve school health and sustainability.

 

After enrolling in this program, schools have the option of participating in KGHS website training and orientation. There is no cost for this training. In addition to this training, the Teacher Reference for each inventory provides suggestions for improvement projects and links to additional resources. Each school is also assigned a business partner and a natural resource partner to assist with more technical aspects of the program. Lastly, the KGHS program coordinator can answer any questions you may have and provide support.

 

All inventories are aligned with the current Core Content for Assessment. These alignments are provided in the Teachers Reference version of each inventory. There are five levels of recognition, which is based on how many inventories and improvement projects a school completes. Inventories include: Energy, Green Spaces, Hazardous Chemicals, Health & Safety, Indoor Air Quality, Instructional Leadership, Solid Waste, Transportation, and Water. Technology integration is mentioned in many of the suggestions for improvement projects and may include: Internet research, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Publisher, digital imaging, and/or video production.

 

Please visit the web site for complete information:  http://www.greenschools.ky.gov/