Professional Learning Network

The people behind the work.

MCC's Professional Learning Network is powered by Change Experts: a vetted network of consultants, implementation leaders, and partner organizations who facilitate learning alongside MCC and carry the work into schools, districts, and communities we could never reach alone.

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What the Network Does

What the Professional Learning Network does

Shared learning that turns into practical action.

Professional Learning Networks are small, facilitated cohorts built around real leadership and implementation challenges. Leaders come together to examine a shared theme, connect it to their own context, and apply MCC tools through guided conversation, reflection, and planning. Each session is grounded in the Adult Learning Framework: Reflect. Connect. Grow. and strengthen the Five Pillars of Lasting Change: conditions, relationships, practices, capacity, and sustainability.

Leaders leave with shared language, practical tools, and one concrete move they can bring back to their team.

What Change Experts Do

What Change Experts do

Practitioners first, in every room.

Every Change Expert comes out of real implementation work in schools, districts, or the organizations that serve them. Within the MCC ecosystem, Change Experts facilitate Professional Learning Network sessions, write in the Leadership Knowledge Commons, contribute to funded innovation projects, and bring specialized expertise into partnerships when a district's needs call for it.

Because they are practitioners first, the learning they lead stays grounded in what actually works in real systems. They help leaders move beyond ideas and into usable routines, stronger conversations, clearer implementation moves, and sustainable follow-through.

Meet the Change Experts

Field experience, facilitation skill, and systems knowledge.

Janine Gacke

Director of Implementation, MCC | Director of Special Education, Serving 5 Districts in NW Iowa

Janine helps schools and districts turn plans into practice that holds. She writes on implementation science in the Leadership Knowledge Commons, including The Science of Doing: Implementation to Excellence series, co-authored with Dr. Morgan Goering and the Connection First series.

Dr. Amy Pahl

Leadership Knowledge Commons Coordinator, MCC

Dr. Amy Pahl is an educational leader and facilitator with expertise in systems change, adult learning, and implementation science. She works alongside educators to build collaborative leadership practices that strengthen decision-making, foster meaningful partnerships, and improve outcomes for students.

Megan Garbe

Project Manager MCC | Elementary Tier 3 Behavior Coordinator, Sioux City Community School District

Megan supports twelve elementary schools in the Sioux City CSD, she provides direct professional learning, coaching, modeling, and feedback to educators serving the students with the highest behavioral needs. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the MCC ecosystem through her work in the development and implementation of MTSS for social, emotional, and behavioral health.

Partner Organizations

Our Partner Organizations

Specialized expertise connected through a shared approach.

Alongside individual Change Experts, MCC partners with organizations whose work strengthens the same systems. These partnerships allow MCC to bring deeper expertise into Professional Learning Networks, district partnerships, and funded innovation projects when a system's needs call for it.

MTSS Studio

A platform for MTSS implementation support, partnering with MCC to help teams move multi-tiered systems from planning into everyday practice.

Complex Ed

An education consulting practice partnering with MCC on implementation, leadership, and innovation work in schools and districts.

SEL Blueprint

A facilitated professional learning experience offered through the MCC partner network to help leaders strengthen social-emotional learning, adult practice, and conditions for student belonging.

Connection First

A leadership and implementation learning series focused on the human conditions that help meaningful change take root and last.

Learn With the Network

Learn with the network

Cohorts shaped around what leaders are carrying now.

Professional Learning Networks are organized around the real challenges leaders are navigating: implementation, data use, trust, facilitation, MTSS, restorative practices, leadership capacity, school climate, and sustainable change.

Each cohort is guided by MCC leaders and Change Experts and built around a practical learning arc. Leaders engage with shared tools, apply them to their own context, learn from peers, and leave each session with something they can use immediately.

Networks form around what leaders need. Tell us what your team is carrying, and we will let you know what is forming.

Ask About a Network

For Consultants and Organizations

Become a Change Experts

If your work strengthens leaders and systems in education, there is a path for you inside MCC's network.

Change Experts join a vetted community of practitioners, facilitators, consultants, researchers, evaluators, and partner organizations who help carry the work into more systems with integrity. They facilitate alongside MCC, contribute to the Leadership Knowledge Commons, and support funded projects in real districts and organizations.

Network relationships form around real needs, so the best first step is a conversation.

Become a Change Expert

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Bring this network into your work.

Whether your team wants to join a Professional Learning Network, bring a facilitated cohort into your system, or access specialized expertise through MCC's Change Expert network, the Partnership Discovery Call is where it starts.

Bring us the work your leaders are carrying. We will help you identify the right network, resource, or partnership path.