How to Become a Certified Oregon Green School
Step 1: Sign Up!
Send an email to mail@oregongreenschools.org to:
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Step 2: Choose a Certification Track
Gardens & Grounds
Green Lunchrooms
Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle
Walk & Roll to School
Energy Conservation
Environmental Justice
Water Conservation & �Pollution Prevention
https://www.oregongreenschools.org/certification
https://www.oregongreenschools.org/walk-and-roll
Walk and Roll To School�Resource Guide
Each certification track has a resource guide that includes:
Step 3: Take Action
Plan your project.
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Certification Form Part 1
1. What is a sustainability problem at your school and why is it important? �Guiding considerations: What track are you working on and what led you to choose that track? What topic or problem are you trying to solve? Why is this topic or problem important to you? How can you frame your question in language that suggests a possible solution or change you want to see?
2. What will you do to investigate and understand the problem? �What baseline measurement will you start with to measure your impact? Guiding considerations: Will you undergo an audit? What kind of audit? An interview? How else might you collect data? You will need to set a baseline of measurement to be able to evaluate your impact. Your evaluation can be qualitative or quantitative.
Certification Form Part 1 (cont.)
3. What action item(s) will you take to solve �the problem?
Guiding considerations:
4. How will you measure your impact? �Guiding considerations: Your impact data should be measured against the baseline you set in question #2. Your data can be qualitative or quantitative.
6. How will you reflect and plan to build on your work?
Guiding considerations: What will you have learned through this process? What do you plan to do next? Do you plan to do more work in this certification track or move on to another track?
5. How will you share your action with the school community?
Guiding considerations: Tell us how you could shout your success!
Implement your project.
Mill Park Elementary School - Portland, OR
Summarize and evaluate your results.
Certification Form Part 2
1. What was a sustainability problem at your school and why is it important? �Guiding considerations: What track did you work on and what led you to choose that track? What topic or problem were you trying to solve? Why was this topic or problem important to you? How did you frame your question in language that suggests a possible solution or change you want to see?
2. What did you do to investigate and understand the problem? �What baseline measurement did you start with to measure your impact? Guiding considerations: Did you undergo an audit? What kind of audit? An interview? How else did you collect data? What was the baseline of measurement you used to evaluate your impact? Your evaluation can be qualitative or quantitative.
Please upload all relevant evaluation documents to your OGS Google folder.
Certification Form Part 2 (cont.)
3. What action item(s) did you take to solve �the problem?
Guiding considerations:
4. How did you measure your impact? What was your impact? �Guiding considerations: Your impact data should be measured against the baseline you set in question #2. Your data can be qualitative or quantitative. ��Did anything get in the way of accomplishing your actions? How did you solve it?
6. How did you reflect and plan to build on your work?
Guiding considerations: What did you learn through this process? What do you plan to do next? Do you plan to do more work in this certification track or move on to another track?
5. How did you share your action with the school community?
If you have a product please hyperlink it here or add it to your OGS folder (i.e., slideshow presentation, video, document).
Receive recognition and promote your success.
Dorena School - Dorena, OR
Step 4: Keep Up the Good Work!
Thank You!