Unscripted Intelligence

🎙️ Uniquely Human | Episode 31 Guest: Brian Arnold + Meghan Freeman Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍 Episode Summary: We design learning to feel hard. We build in the friction, set how long it lasts, and map the way out before the learner ever starts. Then they push through the thing we engineered, and we call it growth. But we built the path....

🎙️ Uniquely Human | Episode 30 Guest: Laurie Guyon + Dan Thomas Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍 Episode Summary: New York adopted a Portrait of a Graduate built on creativity, critical thinking, communication, and reflection. Educators have been insisting these were the skills that mattered most; now, New York State has named what a diploma sh...

🎤 Live from FETC | There's No Such Thing as Digital Citizenship. Just Citizenship. Guest: Lindy Hockenberry Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍 Episode Summary: Lindy Hockenberry is a K-12 ed tech advisor and strategist based in Montana. At FETC 2026, she sat down to challenge the instinct that keeps creeping back into education: ban the tech...

🎤 Live from FETC | The Failure Space is Golden  Guest: Austin Levinson Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament  Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍 Episode Summary: What happens when a student earns the certification but freezes the moment the script gets thrown out? Austin Levinson is the Director of Learning at Mega Minds, an immersive learning platform. At FETC 2026, he sat down wit...

🎤 Live from FETC | Plant the Seeds. Then Trust What Grows. Guest: Kelly Vaughn Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍 Episode Summary: How many teacher preparation programs in California actually center social, emotional, and cultural competency as their foundation?  Kelly Vaughn is the Dean for the School of Education at Notre Dame de Namur Univers...

🎙️LIVE at BOOST - Episode 2 Guest : Elena Arias Host: Arvin Ross  Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Everyone is using AI to move faster. To knock out the emails, the lesson plans, the observations. To do more. But Elena Arias has been in expanded learning for 18 years, and she's watching the wrong things get faster. The operational stuff. The transactional stuff. The...

🎙️LIVE at BOOST - Episode 1 Guest : Christopher Stephens Host: Arvin Ross  Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Every school in the country is asking what AI will replace. Every administrator is writing policies to manage the chaos. Every teacher is wondering if their job is next. But the real question isn't what AI will take. It's whether we ever understood the...

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 8 Guest : Dr. Beverly Pell & Vera Cubero Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Every district in the country is writing AI policies for students. Every family is setting screen time rules for kids. And the adults writing those policies and setting those rules? They’re outsourcing their own thinking, av...

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 7 Guest : Dr. Mark Zeiler, Casey Watts, and Dr. De'Shawn Washington Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: "Human-centered" is everywhere right now. We're in the Intelligence Age, and the language of leadership is inflating faster than the practice is catching up. A chatbot can say "I...

🎤 Live from FETC | The Fear Isn't AI. It's the Change AI Demands. Guest: Jeff McCoy & Jennifer Ferrari Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍 Episode Summary: Everybody's talking about AI in education. Almost nobody's talking about why the people inside the system are afraid to move. Jeff McCoy and Jennifer Ferrari from ERDI join...

🎙 Live from FETC | Create More Than You Consume. Guest : Kristen Brooks Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: She had a poster on her wall that said four words: Create More Than You Consume. For 30 years, she meant it. Kristen Brooks just retired from teaching, and on the day she left, she loved it just as much as the day she started...

🎙 Live from FETC | The Barrier Is Never the Learner. It's the Design. Guest : CAST Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: What if every system we've built in education was designed for a brain that doesn't exist? A standardized brain. A one-size-fits-all brain. A brain that, if we're being honest, describes exactly no...

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 6 Guest : Matthew Winters Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: The Portrait of an AI-Infused Learner isn't a tech document. It's a human one. Matt Winters is the AI Education Specialist for the Utah State Board of Education, the first full-time hire of its kind at a state level in the country. He...

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 5 Guest : Nick Yoder, Michael Crawford, Larissa Black Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: We have the research. We have the frameworks. We have the data. And kids are still leaving school without the skills that matter most. Something isn't adding up. In this episode of Uniquely Human, Michelle and A...

🎙 Live from FETC | Kids Have the Skills. We're Just Not Looking. Guest : Hanna Mick Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Hanna Mick asked her students to write down their goals because research says you're 42% more likely to achieve them. They fired back: prove it. And she thought, yes. That's exactly the skill we say th...

🎙 PORTRAIT OF A LEARNER | Stop Winning the Wrong Game Guest: Rody Boonchouy + Travis Allen Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: The educators who designed our schools were the best students. That might be the exact problem. Rody Boonchouy, Superintendent of Winters Joint Unified School District, raised a question at his board retrea...

🎙 PORTRAIT OF A LEARNER | When the Portrait Becomes the Culture Guest: Dr. Jaron Fried Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: There's a difference between getting people to buy into your vision and getting them to own it. Dr. Jaron Fried has been leading the Anaheim Union High School District for over a decade — a 25,000-student s...

🎙 PORTRAIT OF A LEARNER | The Learner Came First Guest: Dr. Matt Doyle + Dr. Gary Storts Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Two districts, two completely different contexts, one shared belief: the knowledge age is over, and the intelligence age demands more from everyone. Dr. Matt Doyle, Superintendent of Vista Unified School Dist...

🎙 PORTRAIT OF A LEARNER | The Portrait Is the Promise Guest: Dr. Michelle Savko + Dr. April MooreHost: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle AmentPresented by: The Human Intelligence Movement🔍Episode Summary:Most districts have a portrait of a graduate on the wall. Sierra Sands Unified is building one that lives in every classroom, every board meeting, and every grade level from TK to 12th. Dr. April Moore,...

🎙 Live from FETC | Your Why Is the First Fight Guest: Barbara Bray Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Barbara Bray has been in education long enough to watch the system lock down creativity, open it back up, and lock it down again. Her word for this year is advocate. She means it personally. At FETC 2026, Barbara did what she does...

🎙️Unscripted Intelligence | Proudly partnering with HeyBodhi Guest: Dr. Jim Masters, Neesha Nanda + Samantha Gleason Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement The Root Cause | Culture, Burnout, and What Actually Fixes Education Nobody fixed a broken culture with a new program. In this episode of Unscripted Intelligence, we sit down with Dr. Jim Masters, Ne...

🎙 Live from FETC | Unscripted Intelligence: Game Changers Series  Guest : Jerri Kemble + Jamie Saponaro Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: You might be thriving in your silo. You probably think you're doing fine. Jerri Kemble would look you in the eye and say: imagine what you could do if you weren't alone in it. Jerri Kem...

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 4 Guest : Dr. Nneka McGee, Sam Densley, and Margot Toppen Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: You can learn everything and still know nothing. That's the gap between knowledge and wisdom. We've been building the wrong thing for decades. This week on Unscripted Intelligence, Michelle Ament and Arv...

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 3 Guest : Kevin Dougherty, Anna Shildrick, and Bryan Zevotek Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Right answers. Fast output. Clean conclusions. We called that thinking. Then a machine started doing it faster, and suddenly everyone's worried about critical thinking.  But when was the last time any of...

🎙 Live from FETC | Unscripted Intelligence: Game Changers Series  Guest : Juliana Finegan Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement 🔍Episode Summary: Nobody expected a classroom technology platform to change how teachers feel about themselves. But that's what Juliana Finegan keeps finding. A former chemistry teacher. Teach for America. 70 schools visi...