Dr. Jennifer Meller, a Senior Consultant with PCG Education, leads PCG’s efforts in providing districts with comprehensive special education program evaluations and technical assistance in the areas of staffing, stakeholder engagement, compliance, finance, data use, and best instructional practices. Currently, Dr. Meller focuses on supporting districts with state and federal special education compliance as well as data reporting and analysis. She also assists districts in several states to implement procedurally-compliant based special education technology systems. For more than 15 years, she has worked extensively with states, districts, schools and teachers on projects related to special education and education policy. A special education subject matter expert (SME) at PCG, Dr. Meller’s experience is built upon more than 15 years of special education and education policy work in Arizona, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington.
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In the landscape of the 21st Century, education is global in its reach and personal in its impact. In order to meet the needs of students, teachers and the lifelong learners of our current generation, educational systems will need to effectively use technology to allow the learners to access content that is relevant and useful for the questions they are trying to investigate. However, the use of technology is also going to have to provide for structured opportunities for individuals to create and grow communities of learning to add depth and texture to the application of what they learn to impact the world in which they learn, live, and work.
The Pepper Online Professional Learning Network was developed as a system to provide high-quality, personalized, professional learning opportunities to a growing community of learners. An important and critical component of Pepper and its ability to support personalized learning is the capacity in the system for the creation of professional learning communities.
Educators in Pepper have the opportunity to create a personal network of instructional coaches and peers from their school, District, or across the country. Educators use these community networks to share progress as they interact with content collections, discuss course work in portfolios and discussion boards, and share chunks of content from a particular course in small groups.
It is within these communities that the individual participants have the chance to engage in a structured discussion around the challenges and successes in their education programs. The communities can be virtual or face-to-face, but in all cases, the ability to make the learning visible and communicate their results to others who are engaged in the same program, strengthens the collective learning for all.
PCG Education White Paper - Next Generation Science in Support of Language Ac...Public Consulting Group
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Based on the National Research Council’s Framework for K-12 Science Education (2011), 26 states worked collaboratively to develop the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), published in 2013.
The Next Generation Science standards present a new, balanced, vision for K-12 science education where the practices of science and engineering are used to help students investigate and learn new content across a wide-range of disciplines.
The NGSS require that students use and understand the elements of language as they make observations, define questions, develop rules for data collection and describe and defend their results. At the same time as states are working to improve science education in part to develop an informed citizenry and also to better prepare students to be ready for the workforce of the future, more and more students are coming to school needing to learn English as well as the required content for their grade. Because school and teacher accountability models continue to emphasize student performance in ELA and mathematics as two heavily weighted measures in rating school success, ELL students are often placed in extra instruction for English language acquisition instead of science (student performance in science is rarely included in school performance evaluations).
Binghamton University's Virtual AP Conference 2014 - Online and blended educa...Michael Barbour
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The End of “Sit & Git” PD: Powerful, Professional Learning Communities Fueled...Public Consulting Group
In the landscape of the 21st Century, education is global in its reach and personal in its impact. In order to meet the needs of students, teachers and the lifelong learners of our current generation, educational systems will need to effectively use technology to allow the learners to access content that is relevant and useful for the questions they are trying to investigate. However, the use of technology is also going to have to provide for structured opportunities for individuals to create and grow communities of learning to add depth and texture to the application of what they learn to impact the world in which they learn, live, and work.
The Pepper Online Professional Learning Network was developed as a system to provide high-quality, personalized, professional learning opportunities to a growing community of learners. An important and critical component of Pepper and its ability to support personalized learning is the capacity in the system for the creation of professional learning communities.
Educators in Pepper have the opportunity to create a personal network of instructional coaches and peers from their school, District, or across the country. Educators use these community networks to share progress as they interact with content collections, discuss course work in portfolios and discussion boards, and share chunks of content from a particular course in small groups.
It is within these communities that the individual participants have the chance to engage in a structured discussion around the challenges and successes in their education programs. The communities can be virtual or face-to-face, but in all cases, the ability to make the learning visible and communicate their results to others who are engaged in the same program, strengthens the collective learning for all.
PCG Education White Paper - Next Generation Science in Support of Language Ac...Public Consulting Group
SUMMARY
Based on the National Research Council’s Framework for K-12 Science Education (2011), 26 states worked collaboratively to develop the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), published in 2013.
The Next Generation Science standards present a new, balanced, vision for K-12 science education where the practices of science and engineering are used to help students investigate and learn new content across a wide-range of disciplines.
The NGSS require that students use and understand the elements of language as they make observations, define questions, develop rules for data collection and describe and defend their results. At the same time as states are working to improve science education in part to develop an informed citizenry and also to better prepare students to be ready for the workforce of the future, more and more students are coming to school needing to learn English as well as the required content for their grade. Because school and teacher accountability models continue to emphasize student performance in ELA and mathematics as two heavily weighted measures in rating school success, ELL students are often placed in extra instruction for English language acquisition instead of science (student performance in science is rarely included in school performance evaluations).
Binghamton University's Virtual AP Conference 2014 - Online and blended educa...Michael Barbour
Barbour, M. K. (2014, June). Online and blended education: What does it look like? An invited keynote presentation to the Binghamton University's Virtual Advanced Placement Conference, Binghamton, NY.
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SITE 2018 - Preparing Social Studies Teachers and Librarians for Blended Teac...Michael Barbour
Stevens, M., Borup, J., & Barbour, M. K. (2018, March). Preparing social studies teachers and librarians for blended teaching. A full paper presentation to the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Washington, DC.
Dwyer, J., Gaither, M., Kunzman, R., & Barbour, M. K. (2021, June). Educational, social, and civic issues [Panel]. Homeschooling Summit: Problems, Politics, and Prospects for Reform
DLAC 2020 - How Many Is Too Many: What Do We Know About Class Size and Onlin...Michael Barbour
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League of Women Voters Lansing Area (2021) - What Does the Research Tell Us? ...Michael Barbour
Barbour, M. K. (2021, February). What does the research tell us? How should research shape policy? [Online Presentation]. League of Women Voters Lansing Area.
OIE Project Director's Meeting 2021 - Remote Teaching and Online Learning in ...Michael Barbour
Barbour, M. K. (2021, April). Remote teaching and online learning in an emergency: Understanding pandemic pedagogy [Keynote]. Our History. Our Story. Our Way: Office of Indian Education Project Director’s Meeting.
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Education System in Pakistan, Developing Quality Assurance Model in Govt. Schools, Govt Schools in Pakistan, Quality of education comparability and assessment choice in developing countries
Development of Teacher Educators for a Global Societycrealcsuf
Dr. Melinda Pierson, Department of Special Education, Department Chair & Professor
Dr. Janice Myck-Wayne, Department of Special Education, Associate Professor
CARN paper on action research as professional developmentDoctoralNet Limited
This presentation was made to CARN and contains information on the use of action research for professional development for teachers and principals in schools. For more information see: http://www.ar4everything.com
SITE 2018 - Preparing Social Studies Teachers and Librarians for Blended Teac...Michael Barbour
Stevens, M., Borup, J., & Barbour, M. K. (2018, March). Preparing social studies teachers and librarians for blended teaching. A full paper presentation to the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Washington, DC.
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LaBonte, R., & Barbour, M. K. (2020, February). How many is too many: What do we know about class size and online learning? A pecha kucha presentation at the Digital Learning Annual Conference, Austin, TX.
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Launched in 2005, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) is a national initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first-century liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.
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Jennifer Meller , Ed.D., PCG Education Subject Matter Expert
1. • Special Education Program Evaluation
• K-12 Education Policy
• Special Education Compliance, Technology Implementation, Finance and Operations
• Change Management and Strategic Planning
Currently, Dr. Meller focuses on supporting districts with state and federal special education compliance
as well as data reporting and analysis. She also assists districts in several states to implement
procedurally-compliant based special education technology systems. For more than 15 years, she has
worked extensively with states, districts, schools and teachers on projects related to special education
and education policy. A special education subject matter expert (SME) at PCG, Dr. Meller’s experience is
built upon more than 15 years of special education and education policy work in Arizona, Colorado, the
District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington.
Dr. Meller also served as the project manager for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on a research
engagement while at PCG. This research was designed to inform the Foundation’s Data Team about
current PK-12 educational trends and develop a strategy for future grant portfolio investments.
Prior to joining PCG, Dr. Meller worked in the School District of Philadelphia as a Special Projects
Manager in the Office of Management and Budget, and Director of Operations in the Office of
Specialized Instructional Services. In these roles, she focused on building programs that supported
student’s social and emotional growth, implemented student-focused data management systems,
supervised federal and state reporting, and oversaw several multi-million dollar federal grants. As part
of this work, Dr. Meller led a team that provided technical assistance to more than 250 district and
70 charter schools in the Philadelphia area. The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Bureau of
Special Education recognized her team’s efforts with a written commendation; the team also received
recognition from other urban school districts. Dr. Meller also served as a business development manager
for Dale Carnegie Training, where she was responsible for creating a product line for children and
teenagers. As part of this work, she taught public speaking and self-improvement courses for all ages.
Meller., J., d’Entremont, A., and Geier, R. PCG White Paper (2012): Using Data from Special
Education Management Systems to Make Districtwide Instructional Improvements
(http://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/education2/library/index.html)
Dr. Meller earned an Ed.D. in Educational and Organizational Leadership and an MS.Ed. in Higher
Education Management, both from the University of Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. in English from
Dickinson College.
To learn more about Jennifer Meller or other PCG Education Subject Matter Experts, contact
us at info@publicconsultinggroup.com or 1-800-210-6113.
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Jennifer Meller, Ed.D.
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Dr. Jennifer Meller, a Senior Consultant with PCG Education, leads PCG’s efforts in
providing districts with comprehensive special education program evaluations and
technical assistance in the areas of staffing, stakeholder engagement, compliance,
finance, data use, and best instructional practices.