ProSolve's Chief Academic Officer Joins the National AI Literacy Day 2027 Advisory Board
Understanding AI is where literacy starts. Dr. Michelle Ament joins the National AI Literacy Day 2027 Advisory Board to carry that conversation through to human skills.
Something shifted in the AI conversation in schools this year. The question being asked more and more is: What human skills are essential for an AI world?
Curiosity that produces a better question. Judgment to know which of four directions is worth taking. Creativity to imagine what the work could become, and the ability to explain that thinking to someone else.
Districts are moving from naming those skills to building them. Employers have asked for judgment, creativity, and communication for a decade, and AI has shortened the window schools have to develop them.
Dr. Michelle Ament, Chief Academic Officer at ProSolve, has joined the National AI Literacy Day 2027 Advisory Board to help carry that conversation nationally. The initiative supports a nationwide day of action on Friday, March 5, 2027, along with a year-round curriculum library and professional learning for educators.
Now in its fourth year, National AI Literacy Day organizes around two questions. What is AI? And how do we prepare learners for an AI-enabled world?
“Understanding how AI works is real and necessary, and it's the beginning of something much bigger,” Ament said. “The most exciting question in front of us is what becomes possible for a young person when this technology is in their hands. What can they create now that they couldn't create before? What can they take on that used to be out of reach?”
A student who uses AI well brings something to the exchange. AI can accelerate almost every part of the process, and the part that stays hers is deciding what the work becomes. That is where her advantage lives, and it grows the same way it always has, in work where the answer is genuinely uncertain, and someone has to decide.
Most districts have already identified these skills in a Portrait of a Learner. Naming them was the first move, and it was the right one. Growing them is next, and it happens in conditions built on purpose.
“AI is a thinking partner and a creating partner, and that means our human advantage matters more, not less,” Ament said. “This is the moment to be ambitious about human potential. I'm joining this board because I want the national conversation about AI literacy to carry all the way through, from understanding the technology to elevating what makes us uniquely human.”
That work belongs to no single organization. Bringing educators, researchers, nonprofits, families, and students into the same conversation is how a day becomes a practice.
Get Involved
National AI Literacy Day 2027 is open to schools, districts, and organizations. Sign on as a supporting organization or explore the curriculum resource library at ailiteracyday.org.
We would like to hear how your district is thinking about human skills.
The future is human.
Dr. Michelle Ament
Dr. Michelle Ament is a national voice for reimagining learning and leadership in the Intelligence Age. She spent 30 years inside K-12 as a classroom teacher and district administrator. As ProSolve's Chief Academic Officer, she helps districts measure, report on, and improve the human skills the workforce is asking for. Michelle is Co-President of the Human Intelligence Movement and host of Unscripted Intelligence.
