🎙️ 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 Arvin Ross are joined by three people who've each lived this tension differently. 

Margot Toppen has spent her career sensing what's unsaid and helping people claim what they already know. 

Nneka McGee researched AI implementation in K-12 classrooms and keeps asking what we're actually preparing students for. 

Sam Densley coaches teachers, teaches simply, and has discovered that excelling at being bored might be the most countercultural skill left.

Together, they ask what wisdom actually needs to grow. And whether we're creating any of those conditions.

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

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🎙️ 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 us actually sat with something hard long enough to think it through? Not Google it. Not prompt it. Really think about it.

That slow, uncomfortable, messy work of making meaning for yourself? 

It’s metacognition, and it might be the most uniquely human thing we have left.

This week, hosts Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross are going there with Kevin Dougherty, Anna Shildrick, and Bryan Zevotek to discuss how humans actually learn, think, and grow.

This is a live community conversation, and we need your voice in the room. 

Bring your questions. 

Bring your pushback. 

Bring the story of the last time you caught yourself outsourcing your own mind. 

Because the best part of this conversation hasn't been uncovered yet.

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates 

🎙 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 visited. 1,750 surveys completed. One question driving all of it: what actually makes a teacher feel successful?

Not perform successfully. Feel it.

Because when teachers feel successful, something shifts. They take risks. They try things that might not work. They stop surviving the school day and start leading it.

Most PD skips that layer entirely. We hand educators a tool, run them through a training, and wonder why nothing changes Monday morning. Juliana's research says the problem isn't the training. It's everything we built the training on top of.

This conversation gets into what it actually takes to build teacher confidence at scale, why the best PD looks exactly like the classroom experience we want students to have, and what happened when one district ditched the front-of-room desk entirely because the technology finally made something better possible.

The tool didn't change the classroom. The belief did.

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates

🎙 Live from FETC | Unscripted Intelligence:

Game Changers Series Proudly partnering with VEX Robotics

Guest: Tina + Dr. Jimmy

Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

Game Changers at FETC | VEX Robotics Is Building Human Intelligence

🔍Episode Summary:

Nobody expected a robot to teach kids how to talk to each other.

In this episode of Game Changers at FETC, we sit down with Tina and Jimmy to explore what VEX Robotics is unlocking in classrooms that no curriculum ever could.

When students gather around a VEX robot, something shifts. "I" becomes "we."

Competition becomes collaboration.

Students who struggled to connect suddenly have something worth connecting over.

Tina watched VEX transform engagement for students with special needs in ways traditional instruction never reached, because with VEX, there is no wrong answer. Only the next attempt.

The hardest thing she's asked teachers to do has nothing to do with robotics. It's giving up the belief that they have to be the smartest person in the room.

VEX Robotics is building communicators, collaborators, critical thinkers and creative problem solvers.

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates 

🔗Learn more about VEX Robotics: vexrobotics.com

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 2

Guest: Chris Allen

Host: Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

🔍Episode Summary:

A few voices can start a conversation. Only a community can build a movement.

So we're asking: What does human intelligence actually mean?

Tonight we're tracing the evolution of intelligence from campfire to code. And we're inviting you to help define what comes next.

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross sit down with Chris Allen, AI Evangelist and founder of CareerHacks.AI, to explore:

What human capabilities must we protect? 

What must we develop? 

What's the rally cry that moves us forward?

Your definition belongs in this conversation.

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates 

🎙️ Uniquely Human - Episode 1

Guest: Tina Austin

Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

🔍Episode Summary:

We know artificial intelligence is advancing at an unprecedented pace. The harder question is whether human intelligence is keeping up.

In the first episode of the Uniquely Human series, Michelle Ament & Arvin Ross sit down with Tina Austin, CEO and founder of Gainable AI, to explore the human skills that ultimately determine how AI shapes our world.

Long before institutions were ready, Tina brought generative AI into classrooms and professional learning spaces. What followed was resistance, uncertainty, and deep ethical tension. Instead of retreating or rushing forward, she stayed at work. Her leadership helped influence faculty-led AI policy, literacy, and ethics initiatives across higher education, grounded not in hype but in human judgment and responsibility.

This is a conversation about reclaiming what makes us human in a world that desperately needs it.

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates 

🎙️ Game Changers - Episode 7

Guest: Jennifer Eakin Womble, Amy Dujon, Alana Winnick

Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

🔍Episode Summary:After weeks of bold, unscripted conversations with leaders redefining learning, leadership, and human intelligence, this episode marks a turning point ⚡️

What ideas kept surfacing across the Game Changers series?

What happens when those ideas stop living in isolation and start colliding in real time? 💥

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross are joined by three leaders shaping the FETC conference experience:

🎤 Alana Winnick: Keynote speaker bringing creativity, identity, and student-led AI to the center of learning

🔥 Jennifer Eakin Womble: Architect of the conference experience and its human-centered design

🚀 Amy Dujon: Turning bold ideas into professional learning that actually sticks

Together, they connect the dots between the most game-changing ideas from the series and what attendees will experience at the conference ✨

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates 

🎙️ Game Changers - Episode 6

Guest: Dr. Jorge Valenzuela, Dr. Kim Abel, + Tim Needles

Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

🔍Episode Summary:

Let’s stop pretending student disengagement is a mystery.

We keep asking young people to sit quietly, follow directions, and consume information. Then we act surprised when they disconnect. 

In this Game Changers episode of Unscripted Intelligence, Dr. Jorge Valenzuela, Tim Needles, and Dr. Kim Abel surface the unavoidable truth behind engagement in schools today. Learning breaks down when students are treated as consumers, when creativity is optional, and when relevance is negotiable.

From project-based learning and student entrepreneurship to creative advocacy and immersive virtual reality classrooms, this conversation exposes what happens when we stop designing learning for compliance and start designing it for humans.

This is not about better tools.

It is about the courage to admit what is not working.

Made possible by our media partnership with FETC and CommunityEDU!

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates 

🎙️ Game Changers - Episode 5

Guest: Dr. Rachel Edoho-Eket + Dr. Amy Jackson

Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

🔍Episode Summary:

In this special Game Changers episode, Michelle and Arvin sit down with two leaders redefining what leadership must become in the Intelligence Age.

Dr. Rachel Edoho-Eket brings decades of experience as a principal, mentor, author, and statewide leader. Her work proves that joy, relational intelligence, and mentorship are not “nice-to-haves” but the foundation of effective school leadership.

Dr. Amy Jackson operates at the intersection of instruction, technology, and equity. She shows how instructional leaders can step confidently into tech roles, how change management succeeds only when people feel seen, and how leaders from the margins rewrite culture.

Together, they challenge everything about the old leadership rulebook.

In partnership with Community EDU and FETC 2026!

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates 

🎙️ Game Changers - Episode 4

Guest: Greg Bagby + Merrisa Sadler Holder

Host: Arvin Ross + Dr. Michelle Ament

Presented by: The Human Intelligence Movement

🔍Episode Summary:

This episode of Unscripted Intelligence brings together a true trifecta of innovation. We gathered three leaders who are shaking up education in innovative, creative, and practical ways. Greg Bagby and Merissa Sadler Holder each bring a different angle on what it means to redesign learning for the Intelligence Age.

This episode spotlights the work these leaders are doing right now to change the game for schools. They share fresh strategies, unexpected insights, and real moves that districts can make to create better learning experiences today. It is a lively mix of tech, leadership, creativity, and human-centered design.

If you want a front row seat to the future of learning and leadership, this is the episode. It is smart. It is energizing. It is filled with bold ideas built for the world students live in now.

In partnership with Community EDU and FETC 2026!

🎙️About the Hosts:

Michelle Ament and Arvin Ross come from different generations, experiences, and disciplines—but their unlikely partnership is built on mutual curiosity, deep listening, and a shared belief in the power of human connection. Their conversations are real, unscripted, and often challenging—in all the right ways.

Dr. Michelle Ament Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement & Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve.

Arvin Ross Co-Founder of  ProSovle, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

Jena Crossland ⁠ Production Manager for Unscripted Intelligence and Director of Operations + Marketing for the Human Intelligence Movement.

🔗Join the Movement:

Website: ⁠Humanintelligencemovement.org

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Follow ⁠@HumanIntelligenceMovement⁠ on LinkedIn for live shows and episode updates