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# Quiz, Quiz, Trade

Participants pair up, quiz each other with prompt cards, swap cards, and find new partners. This repeated interaction circulates questions and brings everyone into the room's conversation.

**Time:** 15 minutes. UWT suggested 15-minute schedule based on the CASEL playbook 5 to 15 minute guideline.
**People:** 4 to 24. Parallel pairs with continuous rotation

## Choose this exercise

**Purpose:** Enable every participant to speak one-on-one and hear peer perspectives using structured question cards.
**Use it when:** Use at the beginning of a workshop or training session to establish peer contact, warm up voices, or review key terminology.
**Skip it when:** Skip when the physical space cannot accommodate standing movement or when an agenda demands sustained focus on a single deep topic.

## Materials and tools

- One prompt card per participant (index card or printed slip)
- Timer or chime
- Digital document or breakout software for remote cohorts

## Before participants arrive

1. Print and cut prompt cards so each participant receives one distinct card.
2. Ensure pathways between tables and chairs are clear for standing movement.

## Say this to open

We are going to do a rapid exchange called Quiz, Quiz, Trade. Everyone will receive one prompt card. When we begin, find a partner. Person A asks their question, and Person B answers. Then Person B asks their question, and Person A answers. Thank each other, trade cards, and raise your hand so another partner can find you.

## How to run it

### 1. Distribute cards and demonstrate (3 minutes)

Hand one card to each person. Speak the opening script. Model one clean exchange with a volunteer: greet, ask, respond, switch, trade cards, and raise a hand. Remind participants they can pass on any personal question.

### 2. First mingling exchanges (4 minutes)

Signal participants to stand, find an initial partner, and complete their first exchange. Each partner asks their question, hears the reply, trades cards, and raises a hand to find someone new.

### 3. Continue trades and partner swaps (4 minutes)

Keep the rotation moving. Remind participants to raise hands high when searching for a partner. Check on any unpaired participant and connect them to another waiting person or join them briefly.

### 4. Return and debrief (4 minutes)

Ring the chime to conclude trading. Ask participants to return to their seats. Ask two debrief questions from the list and take three or four brief reflections from the room.


## Debrief questions

- Raise your hand if you spoke with at least one person you had not talked to this week.
- How did holding and trading a card change the pace of your conversations?
- What is one idea or insight from a partner that stayed with you?

**Finished output:** Every participant completes several quick peer exchanges and finishes holding a different question card.

## Remote

Display a shared document listing numbered prompt cards. Send participants into 2-minute randomized breakout pairs. Person A asks the question, Person B answers, then switch roles. Reassign new breakout pairs each round so each person interviews three different colleagues.

## Hybrid

Keep remote participants paired in breakout rooms using a shared digital slide deck of prompt cards. In-person participants mingle in the main space. Bring both cohorts together into the common room for debriefing via screen and speaker.

## Access and participation choices

- Participants with limited mobility can remain seated at designated stations while mobile partners rotate to them.
- Anyone may choose to pass on a specific question, share an alternate thought, or act as timekeeper and card distributor without explanation.

## If the session gets stuck

**Two participants finish early and stand waiting while others are talking.**

Remind everyone to raise a hand high the moment they finish a trade; two people with raised hands match immediately.

**An odd number of participants leaves one person standing alone.**

The person waiting keeps their hand up; the facilitator either joins as an active partner or directs the next finishing pair to form a brief triad.


## Terms used here

- Quiz, Quiz, Trade: A cooperative learning structure where partners quiz each other, trade cards, and find new partners.

## Participant material: Sample Getting-to-Know-You Prompt Cards

Card 1: What is one project or hobby outside of work that currently has your attention?
Card 2: What is a favorite working condition or habit that helps you concentrate?
Card 3: What is one practical skill you learned recently from a colleague or friend?
Card 4: When you need a break during a busy day, what do you usually do?
Card 5: What is one topic you could talk about for five minutes without any preparation?
Card 6: What is a piece of advice you received early in your career that proved useful?
Card 7: What is something you are looking forward to in the coming month?
Card 8: What is one simple tool or app that makes your daily routine easier?
Card 9: What is your favorite way to start your morning on a day off?
Card 10: What is a book, article, or podcast that gave you a new perspective recently?
Card 11: If you could shadow someone in any profession for one afternoon, whose job would you observe?
Card 12: What is one small celebration or win your team had recently?

## Sources and adaptation

Observed in the CASEL SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook; CASEL attributes the structure to Kagan cooperative learning practices.

Retained the core mechanic (ask, answer, swap cards, raise hand to signal for a partner) and debrief prompts from CASEL. UWT expanded the procedure into four discrete phases with exact time limits, added clear accommodations, supplied remote and hybrid workflows, and provided a complete 12-card prompt sheet.

[CASEL](https://signaturepractices.casel.org/quiz-quiz-trade/)

Current run sheet: https://unitedwetransform.com/exercises/quiz-quiz-trade-sel-3-signature-practices-playbook/