EcoSchools Certification Checklist
This checklist supports your school’s application to become a Certified Ontario EcoSchool. It is a quick summary of documentation you may need to submit depending on the points you have achieved according to the Certification guide. Keep this checklist at the front of your Certification portfolio and use it to organize your submission.
The checklist below summarizes all of the documentation listed in the Certification guide. Depending on your school’s activities, all of the document listed below might not be relevant. For example, if your school did not have an environmental festival in the current year (Part VI. Question 2) you would not submit a copy of the festival agenda.
| Parts I, II and III: EcoTeam, Energy Conservation and Waste Minimization | Date |
| Copy of meeting minutes | |
| Initial Energy Conservation EcoReview | |
| Initial Waste Minimization EcoReview | |
| Follow Up Energy Conservation EcoReview | |
| Follow Up Waste Minimization EcoReview | |
| Copy of the Waste Monitoring Documents and/or announcements | |
| Copy of your board’s Energy Conservation Guidelines or Standards | |
| Copy of your board’s Waste Minimization Guidelines or Standards | |
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| Part IV: Curriculum | |
| Description of each teacher’s environmental education curriculum. Attach samples of student work if possible. A maximum of 7 submissions are possible in this category | |
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| Part V: Staff Development | |
| List of workshops that were attended, topic of workshop and who attended them. A maximum of 4 PD sessions are eligible in this category | |
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| Part VI: Enriching your Program | |
| Copy of Site Plan for school ground shade and energy conservation project | |
| Copy of an agenda, notice or planning notes pertaining to the environmental festival | |
| Copy of the letter from Clean Air Partnership confirming participation in the 20/20: Way to Clean Air program | |
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| Part VII: Innovative Projects | |
| Brief description of each innovative project. A maximum of 2 submissions are possible for this category | |
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| Certification guide (checklists and Verification Statement must be completed) | |
