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Values Auction
Spend a limited budget on the values your team will actually protect when everything cannot be first.
40–55 min6–40 peopleTable groups
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Facilitator prep · Do not project yet
Set the room up for success.
Materials
- Value cards
- Team budget sheets
- Visible bid tracker
Before you begin
- Choose ten to fifteen school-relevant values
- Set a budget that allows each team to secure only three or four
- Decide how the results will inform a real decision
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What to say
“This is not a test of the team’s goodness. Every value matters; the useful question is what we protect when time, money, and attention are limited.”
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Facilitator notes · Do not project yet
Keep it comfortable and useful.
Make room for everyone
- Provide all values, definitions, and rules in advance.
- Offer written bidding roles that do not require fast speech.
- Avoid real-money language if it distracts the group; use points instead.
Watch out for
- Do not treat the winning values as permanent consensus.
- The room’s composition affects the result; seek student, family, and staff perspectives beyond the activity.
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For the group
Here’s what to do.
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Give teams equal budgets and five minutes to plan.
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Auction values one at a time with clear increments.
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Allow a brief team huddle before final bids.
- 4
After the auction, teams explain one purchase and one difficult value they released.
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For the group
Keep going.
- 5
Compare stated priorities with recent decisions.
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Identify one value that should become a concrete decision criterion.
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Prompt 01
Autonomy
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 02
Belonging
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 03
Consistency
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 04
Joy
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 05
Rigor
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 06
Safety
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 07
Innovation
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 08
Relationships
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 09
Access
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 10
Sustainability
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 11
Results
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 12
Transparency
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Wrap it up
One last thought.
- What did our spending reveal?
- Whose priorities may be missing from this room?
- How will a chosen value change an actual decision?