🎙️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 work that was never the work.

Meanwhile, the actual job — slowing down with a staff member, catching the energy when something's off, asking a kid why they think their teacher sucks instead of telling them not to say that — is getting starved. And so are the people doing it.

As Director of Programs for After-School All-Stars Los Angeles, Elena oversees 70+ sites and a team of 10. She's not afraid of AI replacing educators. She's afraid we're using AI to scale the parts of the job that don't matter, while abandoning the parts that do.

Live from the BOOST Conference, Elena joins Arvin for a conversation about classroom management that isn't management, leadership that can't be delegated, and why the most uniquely human move a leader can make is to slow down when they have every reason to push through.

This conversation is about what we're actually modeling. And whether we have the courage to be the example we keep asking other people to be.

🎙️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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