Educational System Renewal

Your community's sustainable revitalization program won't be complete--and might not be possible--without addressing the renewal of your educational assets.

This includes both public and private schools: elementary, secondary, 2/4-year colleges, research universities, skills/crafts/technical training facilities, etc.  Your educational enhancement efforts will often be significantly more effective and efficient if integrated with the renewal of all 12 sectors of restorable assets in the natural, built, and socioeconomic environments.

In fact, educational institutions and workforce development agencies can often play a major role in the overall renewal of your community or region.  For instance, you can use the renewal of your community as a living laboratory for students and the underemployed in all of the component disciplines.  That way, you end up not only with restored assets, with with a leading-edge, restoration economy workforce.  We refer to this as the "Warsaw Effect."

If a local college or university is already contributing significantly to your area's renewal, it could be an ideal sponsor for your community's Real Revitalization Program.  If it wishes to take an even larger, longer-term role in the community's future, sponsoring the Real Revitalization Program is also the best way to help it create a revitalization forum, possibly as an entity within the school.  [Becoming a member of Revitalization Institute's worldwide network of higher education institutions would be an excellent first step, and it costs nothing to join.]  

A revitalization forum is a permanent public-private organization that supports an ongoing revitalization program.  [Note: Readers of reWealth (McGraw-Hill, 2008) will recognize this type of organization as what that book technically referred to as a "renewal engine". It was revealed as the key factor behind the most dramatic urban regeneration success stories documented in reWealth.]