Sustainable School Districts
START provides a central place for school district leaders, Green Teams and facilities managers to easily track, plan, analyze and organize their schools' sustainability journeys.
Provide your schools with structure and a clear direction for holistic sustainability, with actionable steps, resources and a network of peers to support their progress. START provides a step-by-step blueprint for sustainability (rooted in academic research and developed in collaboration with schools), to methodically integrate sustainability across their Educational Programs, Organizational Culture, and Physical Place.
A Roadmap for Your Schools
Benchmarking & Building Analytics
Schools benchmark their sustainability levels and track their progress across 53 standardized metrics and 3 levels of achievement (Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced). You’ll also be able to quantify and visualize energy, emissions, water and waste across your district, and for individual schools.
Streamline management for sustainable & efficient buildings
START provides a central, structured database for schools to store data, files and bills related to energy, waste and water so you can can track costs and building performance over time.
Transparency and Informed Decision-Making
Get a birds-eye view of your district’s overall performance, and zoom into the sustainability levels and activities of specific schools, for effective strategic planning, resource-allocation and accountability.
“We’ve been using START to bring together teachers in our school and across our district to identify where we are doing well and where we have gaps in our sustainability goals. With START, we have now included sustainability in our new strategic plan and this will be the perfect tool to help us measure our growth and progress.”
Fivetown’s Community School District, Maine USA
Your Central Sustainability Hub
A central sustainability hub for schools to plan, organize & collaborate, and for district administrators to analyze progress. Schools and Districts can add as many collaborators to a school’s dashboard as they like (even students!); upload files; create nested communications, and collaborate across departments.
START helps school members to collaboratively create a Sustainability Baseline/ Annual Report, supporting strategic planning.
Document and Report
Within a private collaboration space for your district/ group in the GSA Community, your school members can connect with each other to communicate, collaborate and share their questions, resources and progress.
Collaboration Spaces
Schools and districts can access a growing library of action-focused resources - ‘How To’ Guides, Toolkits, Case Studies, templates, and more - as well as student-activation resources. START also provides a Cost, Difficulty, and Impact Rating for each sustainability action, supporting planning and prioritization.
Resources
“START brings people, planning, and tracking of sustainability initiatives across a school system together in one place.”
Missouri Green Schools
Support short- & long-term planning
Analyze the sustainability performance of your schools to support strategic planning and effective resource allocation, while promoting transparency, accountability and efficiency.
Analyze and track your district’s aggregated reductions
Quantify and visualize energy, emissions, water and waste across your district or individual schools so you can set goals and track improvements over time.
Get a birds-eye view of sustainability performance across all schools in your district and zoom into data for specific schools.
Macro- & micro-analytics
