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Breathe easier with an air quality action plan

Schools are facing more days with unhealthy air quality than ever before, negatively impacting academic performance and increasing absences. Students and parents breathe easier knowing that your school has a plan for protecting student health.

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Ken Burkhart

Superintendent/Principal, Pope Valley USD

“We chose Clarity because they provided up-to-date, local, scientifically-backed, and relevant data to make decisions about whether to keep students inside. Because of the geography and demographics in our county, the official air monitoring stations are about an hour away with hills in between, providing irrelevant data. We would have poor air quality and the official stations would be cleared; or the official stations would show heavy particulate levels and we would have clean air."

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Recommended activities on days with unhealthy air quality

Activity

0 to 50
GOOD

51 to 100
MODERATE

101 to 150
UNHEALTHY
FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS

151 to 200
UNHEALTHY

201 to 300  VERY UNHEALTHY

Recess
(15 min)

No Restrictions

Make indoor space available for children with asthma or other respiratory problems

Any child who complains of difficulty breathing, or who has asthma or other respiratory problems, should be allowed to play indoors.

Restrict outdoor activities to light to moderate exercise.

P.E.
(1 hr)

No Restrictions

Make indoor space available for children with asthma or other respiratory problems

Any child who complains of difficulty breathing, or who has asthma or other respiratory problems, should be allowed to play indoors.

Restrict outdoor activities to light to moderate exercise not to exceed one hour.

Scheduled Sporting Events

No Restrictions

Exceptionally sensitive individuals should limit intense activities

Individuals with asthma or other respiratory / cardiovascular illness should be medically managing their condition. Increase rest periods and substitutions to lower breathing rates.

Consideration should be given to rescheduling or relocating event.

Event should be rescheduled or relocated.

Athletic Practice and Training
(2 - 4 hrs)

No Restrictions

Exceptionally sensitive individuals should limit intense activities

Individuals with asthma or other respiratory / cardiovascular illness should be medically managing their condition. Increase rest periods and substitutions to lower breathing rates.

Activities over 2 hours should decrease intensity and duration. And rest breaks or substitutions to lower breathing rates.

Sustained rigorous exercise for more than one hour must be rescheduled, moved indoors or discontinued.

1. Recommendations provided by CAPCOA's Air Quality Guidance Template for Schools and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and Centers for Disease Control’s Air Quality and Outdoor Activity Guidance for Schools and Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials.

Know when to switch to indoor activities

On days when air quality is very poor, schools are recommended to enforce indoor activity schedules. Monitoring AQI levels at your school and following outdoor physical activity guidelines is one of the most effective ways to protect students from exposure to unhealthy levels of air pollution.

Julie Orth

Class Teacher, Sierra Waldorf Elementary School

"Having the sensor on site is great for our school and a nice service to offer our surrounding community. Our device went in about 3 years ago and is working great! It is so important for us to know our air quality. Whenever it hits unhealthy levels, we keep our students inside. The data is available right on my phone, so I can check it ahead of recess and make a real-time decision on whether to send students outside or keep them on an indoor activity schedule when air quality is over the threshold. "

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