Same, Different, Connect, Engage
A routine to nurture empathetic perspective taking and bridge building.
Same In what ways might this person and you be similar?
Different In what ways might the person and you be different?
Connect In what ways might the person and you be connected as human beings?
Engage What would you like to ask, say, or do with the person if you had the chance?
Origins
This thinking routine emerged from the Interdisciplinary & Global Studies project. Take a look!
Copyright
© 2022 President and Fellows of Harvard College and Project Zero. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allows users to share this work with others, but it cannot be used commercially. To reference this work, please use the following: The “Same, Different, Connect, Engage “ thinking routine was developed by Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education