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The Sub Would Never
Name one piece of invisible knowledge your substitute or replacement would never discover on their own.
6–10 min4–100 peoplePartners
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Set the room up for success.
Materials
- Optional sticky notes or shared document
Before you begin
- Choose whether the best responses will become a team handoff list
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What to say
“If you disappeared tomorrow, what would your replacement never figure out from the official documents? Keep student and colleague details confidential.”
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Keep it comfortable and useful.
Make room for everyone
- Allow written sharing instead of partner talk.
- Never require naming a specific student or colleague.
- Offer a pass option for roles involving sensitive information.
Watch out for
- Do not turn the activity into martyrdom or a competition about who is most indispensable.
- Remove identifying student information from anything captured.
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For the group
Here’s what to do.
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Give participants one minute to think of an unwritten routine or piece of institutional knowledge.
- 2
Share with a partner for two minutes each.
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Partners identify whether each item is a relationship insight, routine, workaround, or resource.
- 4
Invite a few volunteers to share the knowledge—not confidential details.
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For the group
Keep going.
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Capture items the team should document or teach someone else.
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Prompt 01
What only works because you remember to do it?
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 02
What useful shortcut is nowhere in the handbook?
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 03
What should not depend on one person knowing it?
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Wrap it up
One last thought.
- What knowledge is too important to remain invisible?
- What could we document without creating more bureaucracy?