The Paperless School

THE "PAPERLESS SCHOOL ARE YOU STILL SENDING PAPER PERMISSION FORMS HOME FOR PARENTS TO SIGN? ARE TEACHERS & STAFF STILL FILLING OUT PAPERWORK BY HAND? ARE YOU STORING MOUNTAINS OF PAPER IN FILING CABINETS? 47% of waste in schools is Paper -California Waste Management Board PAPER COSTS REAL MONEY CASE ANALYSIS NYC School 28lbs of paper is consumed by 1 individual each year, approx. 2800 sheets/yr.- At Staples, a pallet (200,000 sheets) costs $1400. 2800 sheets 10,000 (average midsize school district) 28,000,000 sheets (140 pallets) = x S1400 approx. $200,000 per year E-STORAGE SAVES MONEY 1 sheet of paper is about 2KB of Information 2800 sheets = 5.5 MB 5.5MB 10,000 (average midsize school district) 55GB per year- This can fit on a $25 64GB flash drive $0 Now imagine if everything was stored in a FREE cloud storage platform like Google Drive: the sheer efficiency and economy is staggering! AND HELPS THE ENVIRONMENT Eliminating a single paper permission form could save.. 25000 GALLONS OF WATER 150 LBS OF GREENHOUSE GASES 1 FULLY GROWN TREE PAPEALESS SCHOOLS Use Google Apps for Education. Stop printing assignments on paper. GOOGLE Use an electronic document management system. Stop storing paper in filing cabinets. freWo Use frevwo • Use E-Consent forms and Approval workflows. • Stop using paper for signatures. • Let parents and teachers sign electronically on any device. frewo Sources: http://blog.frevvo.com/2014/10/23/green-schools-what-you-can-do-today/ http://blog.frevvo.com/2014/10/27/how-much-paper-do-schools-use/ NationalPositions Profitable lnternet Marketing