Kathleen McClaskey

Kathleen McClaskey (@khmmc) is CEO and Chief Learning Office of Empower the Learner, LLC, Founder of Make Learning Personal and co-author of bestsellers Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper. She has been a teacher, administrator, professional developer, innovative leader, visionary, and futurist who believes that everyone on the planet is a learner. As an educational technologist for over 30 years, graduate instructor and an Universal Design for Learning consultant, she has worked worldwide in training thousands of teachers in using tools to instruct all learners in the classroom. In the last decade, Kathleen directed and designed the professional development in multiple technology-based projects in math, science, literacy and autism to build 21st Century classrooms and sustainable learner-centered environments.

She is passionate in empowering learners with tools, skills and learning strategies so they become independent self-directed learners, learners with agency, who are future ready for college, career and life. Kathleen coined the phrase: “Every child on the planet is a learner”. With that understanding, she continues on her mission for educators to “Discover the Learner in Every Child” and to level the playing field for all learners. Follow Kathleen and her blogs at kathleenmcclaskey.com and learn how UDL can be used to achieve educational equity, learner agency and self-advocacy for all learners.