Professional Learning Network

Bring the right expertise into the work you’re already carrying.

MCC connects schools, districts, and education leaders with vetted experts across leadership, implementation, special education, data, school climate, behavior, and systems change.

Meet the experts below, or bring us the challenge you’re working through and we’ll help identify the right people to bring around it.

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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

Experienced practitioners who understand what it takes to move change from idea to implementation.

MCC Change Experts bring experience from schools, districts, research, implementation work, and organizations serving K–12 systems.

They understand what happens when a good idea meets competing priorities, limited capacity, different school contexts, and the people responsible for making it work.

Explore the network below and see whose expertise connects with the work your team is carrying. If someone stands out, let us know when you book your Partnership Discovery Call. If you’re not sure who you need, bring us the challenge and we’ll help make the match.

Dr. Morgan Goering

Founder & Lead Architect, MCC

Janine Gacke

Implementation & Special Education

Dr. Amy Pahl

Teach Burn Out and R.E.E.L. Framework

Megan Garbe

Implementation & Behavior Supports

Joe Jezierski

Climate, Culture & Wellbeing

Cheryl Cook

Evidence-Based Behavior Supports & Data

Alesha Bates

Special Education & Social-Emotional Learning

Dennis Lamb

Adult Implementation & Learning

Jana Rieck

Specialist in Literacy Frameworks & Data-Driven Interventions

Tavarski Wallace

Trauma-Informed Student Support Systems

Dr. Joseph Lewis

Educational Administration and IT Services Designed to integrate systems

Dr. Chris Timmis

Executive Coach and Innovative Systems Leader

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How It Works

Start with the work.

We’ll help bring the right people around it.

Every partnership begins with what your school, district, or leadership team is trying to move forward.

01. Bring us the challenge.

Tell us what your team is working through, where progress is getting stuck, and what kind of change you’re trying to create.

02. Identify the right expertise.

Come with a specific Change Expert or partner in mind, or let MCC help identify the expertise that best fits the work.

03. Shape the engagement.

We’ll build the partnership around your goals, your people, your context, and the level of support needed to move the work forward.

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Partner Organizations

Specialized expertise, connected through a shared approach.

MCC also works alongside organizations whose expertise expands what we can bring into schools, districts, funded projects, and implementation work.

These relationships allow us to bring additional tools, research, technology, facilitation, and specialized support into an engagement when the work calls for it.

If there’s a partner below you’re specifically interested in working with, tell us when you book your Partnership Discovery Call. If you’re not sure what support you need, we’ll help determine the right combination of expertise.

Learning & Implementation Partners

MTSS Studio

Complex Ed

SEL Blueprint

Connection First

CLD Leadership

Upwords Unlimited

Unleash YES

Stride

Districts & Systems We’ve Worked With

BrightWorks

South Central Service Cooperative (SCSC)

Waterbury Public Schools

Minnesota PBIS

Minnesota New Country School (MNCS)

Fontana Unified School District

Research & Innovation Collaborators

Eureka Facts

Leave Normal Behind (LNB)

Sovereign SP

reDesignED

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For Consultants and Organizations

Bring your expertise into the network.

If your work strengthens leaders, schools, or systems in education, you can apply to become part of MCC’s Professional Learning Network.

Change Experts are vetted practitioners, facilitators, consultants, researchers, evaluators, and partner organizations whose expertise may contribute to district partnerships, Leadership Knowledge Commons content, funded projects, and other work across the MCC ecosystem.

We build network relationships around real needs and aligned expertise. The application is the first step in helping us understand your work, your experience, and where you may fit.

Apply to Become a Change Expert

Start the Conversation

Bring this network into your work.

Maybe you already know which Change Expert or partner you want to work with.

Or maybe you simply know your team needs a different kind of support.

Bring us the challenge your leaders are carrying. We’ll help identify the expertise, people, and partnership structure that make sense for your system.

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Interested in joining the network instead?

Apply to Become a Change Expert

Start the Conversation

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.