🎙️ 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 should stand for.

But naming human skills is not the same as building the skills in a student.

That gap is the whole conversation. We know how to teach a fact and test for it. Do we know how to teach a kid to think critically, or to know it when we see it? How do you assess reflection? What does communication look like on a rubric?

This is where it gets real. The decisions districts make over the next two years will determine whether this becomes lived practice or another beautiful framework that quietly collects dust. Closing that gap is a daily practice problem, and it lands on the educators standing in front of students right now.

Michelle and Arvin sit down with Dan Thomas and Laurie Guyon to ask the question the policy can't answer on its own. What actually moves a human skill from a document into lived experiences?

🎤️ 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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