Educational System Renewal

Your revitalization won't be complete--and probably won't 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.  The renewal of educational services should be integrated with the renewal of other restorable assets.

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."

Thus, it's essential that all three renewal rules--rewealth, integration, & engagement--guide your commercial and economic decisions, so as to bring them into alignment with your overall goal of rapid, resilient renewal.  You should engage educational leaders in the renewal of all 12 sectors of restorable assets, and in all three solution-generating processes of your renewal engine: visioning, culturing, and partnering.