A leadership and implementation ecosystem for education
Helping education leaders make good work last.
Helping education leaders
make good work last.
We work with school and district leaders to turn strong ideas into change that holds across teams, roles, and the years it takes to see results.
The connective layer that turns knowing into doing.”
— Dr. Morgan Goering
Founder
Grounded in 20+ years across classroom, school, district, and state leadership
Backed by a network of veteran education consultants
Backed by a network of veteran education consultants
Partnerships that turn leader insight into state-funded innovation
Education isn't short on ideas.
Most schools and districts already have strong plans, capable people, and more frameworks than they can count.
What tends to go missing is coherence over time. Initiatives start with energy, then fade as priorities shift and teams change. Leaders revisit the same goals year after year, because the system never got the structure to carry the work between the people who care about it.
Making Champions of Change works in the space between what leaders learn and what actually holds in their systems.
We are the connective layer that turns knowing into doing, helping leaders reflect on what is really happening and build the routines, tools, and relationships that keep good work in place.
Your existing plans, people, and partners stay at the center. We add the structure that helps them work together and last.
The Ecosystem
One ecosystem, built around the Five Pillars of Lasting Change.
Lasting change rarely comes from one training or one committed leader. It comes from strengthening the whole system around the work.
Every MCC tool, learning space, and partnership is built to strengthen the Five Pillars of Lasting Change.
Relationships
Conditions
Practices
Capacity
Sustainability
Two ways to work with us.
Wherever you are with a change effort, there is an entry point.
Start on your own with our open resources, or bring us in to partner directly with your team.
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BUILD KNOWLEDGE. TAKE ACTION
Free and low-cost resources you can put to work right away.
Explore
Explore the Leadership Knowledge Commons for reflection, research, and leader voice.
Download
Download monthly playbooks and guides built from real implementation work.
Move Forward
Move at your own pace through courses on PBIS and restorative practices.
Partner With Us
DEEPER SUPPORT. REAL RESULTS.
Hands-on support when you are ready to move real work forward with your team.
Assess
Begin with a Comprehensive Needs Assessment to see clearly what your system needs.
Connect
Bring in a Professional Learning Network facilitated by our leaders and partners.
Accelerate
Or step into the Leadership Laboratory, our deepest partnership, where we surface what your leaders are seeing and turn it into fundable, grant-ready projects your team believes in.
The Adult Learning Framework
Reflect. Connect. Grow.
Reflect. Connect. Grow. is MCC's adult-learning framework for moving from insight to aligned action. Every engagement runs on this simple, repeatable framework for slowing down, making meaning, and choosing the next move with intention.
Reflect
Pause before reacting. Leaders notice the assumptions, emotions, and lived experience shaping how they see the work, creating space for honesty before action.
Connect
Look beyond the moment. Teams find the patterns across relationships, roles, routines, and data, turning isolated experiences into shared understanding.
Grow
Choose the next right move. Leaders pick a clear, manageable shift that fits their values, capacity, and context, so learning stays practical and accountable.
Together, the framework holds adult learners with both dignity and accountability, honoring who educators are while keeping them responsible to what their students, teams, and communities need next.
Real districts. Funded, lasting work.
MCC's approach helps districts see their systems clearly, design change work their teams believe in, and secure the funding to carry it out. One recent partnership helped a Minnesota district land a state innovation grant to fund the work its leaders shaped together.
★★★★★ 5.0
“Connecting with Morgan and Making Champions of Change has been a wonderful opportunity. MCC is helping us bridge the gaps between our ideas, university coursework, research, and district implementation.”
Alesha Bates
SEL Blueprint (Champions Expert)
★★★★★ 5.0
[“Reflect. Connect. Grow. has real potential to bridge the persistent gap between professional learning and implementation.”
Brad Witzel
Ph.D., Researcher
★★★★★ 5.0
"Thanks again for the advocacy on our behalf"
Jim Wartman
Advisor and Lead Teacher Minnesota New Country School (Supported District Leader)
Free Resource
Start with one small, practical step.
Trust between students and adults sits underneath the Conditions every school depends on. Our free guide, Unlock Student Trust: Proven Strategies for Stronger Classroom Connections, gives you and your teachers a handful of practices to strengthen those relationships this week. It is the smallest first step into the MCC ecosystem, and a useful one to share with your staff.
Meet the Founder
Built from years inside the work.
Dr. Morgan Goering founded Making Champions of Change after years as a teacher, administrator, district leader, and consultant across PBIS, MTSS, school climate, and adult learning. The same pattern kept surfacing: capable leaders carrying too many disconnected priorities, with too little structure to help any of it hold. MCC is her response to that gap, now grown into a team, a consultant network, and a growing portfolio of funded innovation work.
Join the Conversation
This work grows in conversation.
MCC is a connected network of leaders doing good work across districts and communities. The Leadership Knowledge Commons keeps the learning happening in real systems from disappearing, turning it into resources, research, and leader voice you can use.
If you do not see exactly what you need here, there is a strong chance we can help you find it or build it. Follow along, learn with us, and join the leaders shaping what comes next.
Ready to make your next initiative the one that lasts?
Tell us where your team is headed and what feels stuck. We will help you find the right next step, whether that is a resource, a learning network, or a full partnership.
A leadership and implementation ecosystem helping education leaders turn good ideas into change that lasts.
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