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Quality Teaching and Learning Environments

Ameresco has evolved from an Energy Renewal Company to a company whose new mission is “working together with you to enrich educational experiences by enhancing Quality Teaching and Learning Environments” (QTLE). Within the Canadian K-12 educational landscape, parents, administrators and politicians continue to demand better results. Educators have been working systematically to refine their collective efforts and enhance their results. Within this context we have asked the following questions:

• "What about school facility conditions?"
• "Are facility conditions connected to learning?"

The primary mandate of K-12 educational institutions is to optimize student outcomes. Learning outcomes are influenced by many different factors. We contend that facility conditions have contributions that are both consequential and manageable. In other words, enhanced facility conditions contribute to the quality of teaching and learning environments. Metrics like the Facility Condition Index (FCI) gives us a ‘property management’ perspective. When we consider this together with an educator’s perspective together, it enables us to collaboratively develop a plan that, when implemented, will contribute to an enhanced teaching and learning environment.

Our evolution and discovery that facility conditions contribute to the quality of teaching and learning environments has only been made possible by working collaboratively with school boards across the country for over 37 years.

Sod Turning Marks Start of Construction of New Green School in Sudbury

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Rainbow District School Board Partners With Ameresco to Build First Green School in Northern Ontario.

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