Differences: What Matters Most?
What matters most, and how do we build coherence across the school?
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Today's Flow
What matters most, and how do we build coherence across the school?
One difference that energizes your work; one that drains it.
Around the room — one word or one sentence each.
Differences That Make a Difference
Not every difference matters
Engage the ones that shape the pattern
Energy on the wrong one is wasted
Kind vs. Degree
Kind: categories (role, subject, language)
Degree: more or less of the same
Which one moves the pattern?
In Your Groups
List the differences present in a shared pattern.
Sort them: kind vs. degree.
Agree on the one that, if engaged, would most move the pattern toward coherence.
Compare choices — notice how naming the key difference clarifies action.
Next Wise Action & Homework
Toolkit Chapter 4: Differences.
Post the difference that most shapes your AAE #2 issue and why.
Advance AAE #2 into the So What? section, focused on the key difference.
Before leaving: each person names one next wise action.
Our Simple Rules
Adapted from the HSD-Camino Toolkit (Patterson & Holladay) and HSD Institute learning materials. © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org