Therefore, The Learning Exchange imagines, investigates, and creates learning experiences that are lasting legacies for youth, families, and communities. Learning experiences must tap into broad movements that influence public policy, governmental funding, and private resource allocation. Exemplary experiential learning builds upon the existing interest and commitment of community institutions and key stakeholders. Consequently, the exemplary learning experience translates broad movements into vision and action that resonate throughout the entire community. Leverage, redirect, and connect resources toward breakthrough solutions addressing the identified educational need, aim, and community priority.
Sufficient resources exist to provide exemplary learning experiences for all students.
However, these resources are fragmented and have been used inefficiently, based on the entrenched systems of the past. The learning experience serves as a catalyst that stimulates and merges resources in effective and exciting ways. The impact of the learning experience must be worth the effort to disband old, obsolete, disconnected systems of resource allocation and create new, interconnected processes. Transform the community's capacity and long-term investment in youth development. By directly benefiting a critical mass of youth and adults, the learning experience creates a ripple effect throughout the entire community.