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Why HSD? Our School as a Living System

How do we use our strengths to build more resilient teaching and learning systems?

Human Systems Dynamics for the Whole School · © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org
Sessão 1

Today's Flow

10′
Welcome & framing
20′
What is a Complex Adaptive System?
15′
The Learning Triangle
30′
Break-out: strengths mapping
20′
Harvest
20′
Co-create our Simple Rules
5′
Close & homework brief
Our Guiding Question

How do we use our strengths to build more resilient teaching and learning systems?

Check-in

One word: how does our school feel to you right now?

Around the room — one word or one sentence each.

Teach · 20 min

Our School as a Living System

A Complex Adaptive System: interdependent agents

Interactions generate patterns no one controls

We set conditions, not commands

system-wide patterns emerge
agents interact
emergence ⤴
⤵ patterns shape future interactions
Teach · 15 min

Resilience & the Learning Triangle

Theory
models
Practice
methods
Praxis
we learn HSD
by using it

Resilience: the ability to adapt to change — and thrive.

Break-out · 30 min · groups of 4–5

In Your Groups

Strengths mapping — our first shared patterns.

1

Each person names one strength they bring — and one they see in the school.

2

Write each strength on its own sticky note.

3

Cluster the notes and name each cluster.

4

These clusters are our first shared patterns.

listening
trust between teams
curiosity
care for students
sticky notes → clusters → patterns
Harvest · 20 min

Each group shares its clusters — what themes link our strengths to resilience?

Antes da Sessão 2

Next Wise Action & Homework

Reading

Toolkit Introduction and Chapter 1 (overview). Skim the Simple Rules section.

Reflection

Post a short introduction to the shared space and name one sticky issue you might work on this term.

Adaptive Action

Choose the sticky issue for Experiment #1 — many parts, keeps coming back unsolved, evolves, feels new.

Before leaving: each person names one next wise action.

Close · Celebrate One Thing From Today

Our Simple Rules

1Stand in inquiry
2Leverage the energy of difference
3Search for what is true and useful
4Zoom in and zoom out
5Connect through stories and impacts
6Celebrate life

Adapted from the HSD-Camino Toolkit (Patterson & Holladay) and HSD Institute learning materials. © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org
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