Professional development
Evidence-based PD for educators and leaders, designed and delivered by someone who teaches teachers for a living: workshops, PLC series, and coaching that actually changes practice.
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Your project is the main quest. I'm your party member.
Side Quest Learning is the consulting practice of Matt Love, faculty member in special education. Research-grade expertise for schools, grant seekers, nonprofits, and campaigns. No final-boss bureaucracy.
QUEST LOG · SERVICES
Seven ways we can work together
Every engagement is scoped to your goals, timeline, and budget: flat-fee or milestone-based, always in writing. Pick a quest below, or bring me a custom one. Those drop the rarest loot.
Grant writing
Competitive proposals for federal, state, and foundation funding: needs statements, logic models, evaluation plans, and budgets built to survive review panels.
Start this quest: grant writingProject evaluation
External evaluation for federal, state, and foundation grants: rigorous designs, clean data collection, and annual reports your program officer will actually read.
Start this quest: project evaluationInstructional design
Courses and curricula for online platforms, grounded in learning science and built accessible from the first wireframe, because access is the whole point.
Start this quest: instructional designServices & organization consulting
Practical guidance on structuring school services, special education programming, and the organizational decisions that shape student outcomes.
Start this quest: services and organization consultingData analysis
From messy spreadsheets to defensible findings: quantitative and qualitative analysis that turns your data into decisions, reports, and presentations.
Start this quest: data analysisCampaign support
Strategy and education-policy expertise for candidates running for county and district elected positions, especially school board and education-adjacent races.
Start this quest: campaign supportCHARACTER SHEET
Meet Matt Love
Matt Love
FACULTY MEMBER · SPECIAL EDUCATION
By day, I'm a faculty member in special education: research, teaching, and service to the field. Side Quest Learning is where that expertise goes adventuring: districts that need PD worth the sub coverage, projects that need a sharp external evaluator, proposals that need to win funding, and campaigns that need an education brain in the room. You get university-grade rigor without university-grade bureaucracy.
CLASS: PROFESSOR
SPEC: SPECIAL EDUCATION
ALIGNMENT: LAWFUL GOOD
IRB APPROVED
PARTY PERKS
Why bring me into your party
Practitioner + researcher
I live in the research and work with the people who use it. You get recommendations that are both defensible and doable.
One accountable expert
No account managers, no hand-offs, no junior staff learning on your dime. The person you hire is the person doing the work.
Clear scopes, clear fees
Flat-fee or milestone-based pricing agreed up front and in writing. You'll always know what you're getting and when.
Accessibility by default
From course design to data reports, everything I build is designed to be usable by the widest possible audience. It's kind of my whole field.
WALKTHROUGH
Four levels. No grinding.
Accept the quest
A free 30-minute conversation about your goals, constraints, and timeline. No commitment, no jargon.
Map the route
You get a written scope of work: deliverables, milestones, and a flat or milestone-based fee. No surprise invoices.
Do the work
Regular check-ins, drafts you can react to, and a collaborator who actually answers email.
Claim the reward
Polished deliverables you can submit, present, or implement, plus a party member for the next quest when it spawns.
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Tell me about your project
A grant due in six weeks. A PD day on the calendar. A dataset that's seen things. A campaign that needs an education voice. Whatever the quest, the first conversation is free.