🎙️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 job in the first place.

The teacher who imparts knowledge was already replaced. The internet did it a decade ago. We just kept building systems to pretend otherwise. Meanwhile, the work that actually matters — seeing a kid, building the relationship, catching the signs no algorithm can read — has been sitting there the whole time, undervalued and unprotected.

Christopher Stephens has spent two decades in expanded learning, from preschool teacher to middle school administrator to coordinator for over 100 districts in San Diego County. He's not afraid of AI replacing educators. He's afraid we still don't know what an educator is actually for.

Live from the BOOST Conference, Christopher joins Arvin for a conversation about quality, connection, and the kids who turn their lives around not because someone delivered content, but because someone saw them.

This conversation is about what the job actually is. And whether we're brave enough to do 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 ProSolve, educator, speaker, and adaptability enthusiast.

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

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