Lead Consultant

Founder & Lead Consultant

Megan Karns Garvy brings 25 years of experience across K–12, community college, and university settings. She helps education teams build early college pathways, strengthen assessment and program review, and turn plans into practical processes and resources.

Through Level Up Education Pathways Consulting, Megan works collaboratively with faculty, staff, and leaders to understand their priorities, examine available evidence, and develop approaches that fit their students, programs, and organizations.

Early College & Credit Pathways

Megan’s experience includes dual enrollment supervision, school–college partnerships, and the development of early college planning resources. Her consulting work with the Center for the Future of Arizona includes open-source materials designed to support early college strategy. She has also facilitated focus groups for ElevateEdAZ to understand stakeholder experiences and inform pathway development.

Her current work includes leading Maricopa Community Colleges’ CTE Innovation Grant project, funded by the Arizona Department of Education, which connects industry credentials earned in high school to college credit. This work brings together local education agencies and community colleges to strengthen early college planning and expand student access through coordinated faculty review, credential equivalencies, student outreach, and clear processes for receiving approved Credit for Prior Learning.

Assessment & Program Improvement

Megan’s assessment experience includes student outcomes committee leadership, faculty professional learning, and collaborative program review. She has developed learning experiences that help educators create assessment plans, design rubrics, interpret findings, and identify improvements.

Her program review work includes examining enrollment, demographics, scheduling, course success, and student learning evidence, contributing review narratives, and helping teams establish improvement priorities. Her approach supports meaningful assessment across academic programs, student affairs, and co-curricular learning.

Professional Learning & Research

As Education Faculty in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Mesa Community College, Megan supports faculty development, course design, assessment planning, and effective teaching practices. Her experience also includes department leadership, instructional design, online learning, and federal grant development and administration.

Megan teaches in Arizona State University’s Leadership and Innovation doctoral program and Northern Arizona University’s Educational Leadership master’s program. She also mentors dissertation research. Her teaching and research experience informs her work with surveys, interviews, focus groups, and the interpretation of evidence for improvement.

Areas of Expertise

• Early college pathway planning and school–college partnerships

• Dual and concurrent enrollment

• Industry credential pathways and Credit for Prior Learning

• Student learning assessment and program review

• Faculty and staff professional learning

• Collaborative planning and facilitation

• Stakeholder research and program evaluation

• Curriculum and instructional design

• Grant development and administration