Game Changers: Start Building Conditions

🎙 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