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 Documentation is essential.
Entries may include energy audits Shoutouts
with recommended conservation
practices (task lamps for staff,
At this point, schools should have
computer shutdowns, contests,
submitted SERT Shutdown Checklist
plans to increase recycling
weights, video and social media forms five times — once each for
awareness strategies, etc.). Labor Day, Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, the Martin Luther King, Jr.
holiday, and most recently, Inauguration Day.
 The LEAD BY EXAMPLE matrix
provides assistance in structuring CONGRATULATIONS to the following nine schools for having a perfect
the entries and should be submission record for the first semester of the 2016–2017 school year!
included in contest submissions.
 Cloverly Elementary School
 Supporting documentation that  Jones Lane Elementary School
demonstrates actions may include  Stephen Knolls School
working papers, flyers, video clips,  Matsunaga Elementary School
artwork, calculations, etc.  Northwest High School
 Helpful resources are linked at the  William Tyler Page Elementary School
 Stone Mill Elementary School
bottom of the matrix.
 Wheaton Woods Elementary School
 Parental signatures are required.  Woodfield Elementary School

 Final entries must be submitted Thank you for remembering to submit your SERT Shutdown Checklist four
by March 20, 2017 to SERT, 45 W. times during the second semester: Presidents’ Day, Spring Break, Memorial
Gude Drive, Suite 4000, Rockville, Day and Summer Break. We will continue to send you email reminders before
MD 20850. each events.

This newsletter is produced by the School Energy and Recycling Team (SERT)
program and distributed to SERT leaders, Green Teams, building service personnel, THE SERT TEAM:
and others who are interested in conservation and sustainability. As part of the Richard Benjamin, program manager
Montgomery County Public School Department of Facilities Management, the SERT Helen Blankfeld, information specialist
program provides opportunities for all schools to participate and receive incentives DJ Connelly, facilitator
and recognition for their energy conservation and recycling efforts. We support a Terina Garcia, facilitator
balanced environment for the integration of all students to work together in a Linda McLaughlin, program technician
culturally diverse environment, and strive to provide the resources, support, and John Meyer, recycling manager
vision of the future for a successful conservation program at each school. Jim Stufft, facilitator
Promoting the connections between human behavior and its impact on the
environment reinforces our culture of conservation and increases participation in
our mission to conserve resources and recycle actively.

Department of Facilities Management | SERT PROGRAM | 45 W. Gude Drive, Suite 4000 | Rockville, MD 20850
www.GreenSchoolsFocus.org | Direct: 240.314.4709 | Main: 240.314.1090 | Fax: 301.279.3005 | @MCPSsert
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