|
 |
Designing Smarter Schools Video
Education is essential to the success of
our children. Well-constructed and properly maintained schools enhance
the educational process and lead to higher student performance and test
scores. Deteriorating buildings with leaky roofs, inadequate lighting,
and poorly functioning mechanical systems interfere with learning and
can create health problems.
As more and more school facility problems
become evident with aging, and poorly designed and inadequately maintained
schools, both educators and parents increasingly recognize that there
is a relationship between student health and academic performance and
the quality of their school building.
Over the next decade, thousands of schools
across America will be built and thousands more modernized. Parents,
community leaders, and educators must understand what it takes to build
and maintain good schools and still spend tax dollars wisely. A variety
of technologies and techniques are available to help create the best
possible learning environments for our children; they simply have to
be properly used.
See how school buildings can be improved
from heat reflective roofing to state-of-the-art lighting by viewing
a 30-minute award winning online video, Designing
Smarter Schools, that includes Larry Schoff of the U.S. Department
of Energy’s Rebuild America program and John B. Lyons of the U.S. Department
of Education. VHS copies are also available for $10.00 by calling 1-888-552-0624,
or by ordering online.
Designing Smarter Schools was produced
by the Information Television Network with support from the U.S. Department
of Education, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Sarnafil, Inc., and Osram Sylvania. To assist in designing smarter
schools, the U.S. Department of Energy has produced school energy efficiency
design guidelines through its Rebuild America program and Energy Smart
School Campaign. They are available online at:http://www.rebuild.org/sectors/SectorPages/ess_guidelines.asp
or by calling the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse:
1-800-363-3732.
Return to NCEF Publications
|
|
|
