Call to Action: Participants can choose to get directly involved with CAUSE, including:

1. nominating themselves or their colleagues to become members of 1 of 3 advisory committees,
2. nominating a K-12 project for cohort 2 or cohort 3 participation as a data collection site, and
3. applying to sponsor CAUSE as a research partner or supporter.

Abstract: We need standardized, open source post-occupancy evaluation (POE) tools tailored to K-12 facilities that capture both educational outcomes and environmental exposures. Despite POEs gaining attention in architecture and design fields, no shared framework has successfully united industry-based researchers in our shared goal to understand the impact of design. Our session will share how our coalition based within architecture firms themselves seeks to provide a standardized method by emphasizing advances in open science and communal benefit. Participants will learn what barriers have hampered past efforts to standardize POEs, and what opportunities exist in the field if we successfully adopt a common standard for this increasingly common research. See some examples of how founding firms in the Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments have approached POEs that will seed our templates for shared measures. Participants will also have an opportunity to ask questions and give input on the development of the CAUSE framework, including learning about opportunities to get their people and projects involved.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain contemporary challenges facing K-12 teachers and students with regard to health (ex: worsening air quality driven by climate change) and wellness (ex: increasing incidence of anxiety among school-age youth).
2. Describe contemporary examples from POEs that implement current standards of research practice taken from relevant domains like human health and psychology.
3. Identify key indicators of human health and student wellness that are relevant to public and client audiences, and how their POE measures can connect to those indicators.
4. Justify the strength of an open-science model for industry POE standards, and identify the best ways for participating in the creation of a larger industry coalition around the CAUSE framework.