ABSTRACT
Living systems-minded leaders, together with their facilities colleagues, manage healthy, safe, and sustainable learning environments in ways that reduce energy, conserve natural resources, and minimize waste. To the greatest degree possible, they implement green operation and maintenance routines. Living systems-minded school leaders build bridges between the historically divided curriculum and facilities sides of the academic house, never underestimating the capacity, or the desire, of maintenance and operations colleagues to lend their expertise. Curriculum and facilities professionals employ their collective imagination, transforming a laundry list of mundane maintenance and operations tasks into an integrated plan for utilizing the school building as a three-dimensional textbook.
