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Icebreakers

The Civic asset of inclusivity prioritizes helping all stakeholders find a place within a team or community. Use these simple icebreakers to build connections between people across differences in new and unexpected ways. Useful for team, classroom, and other group contexts.

Tool

   15 minutes

   By: University of Florida

   Educator-prep | Leader-prep


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

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