Kathryn Laster

@kklaster.bsky.social

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📍 Learner and educator 🎯 My goal is to transform the way we design #ProfessionalLearning 🫶 Love connecting to people, ideas, and communities ❤️ #CoffeeEDU, books, podcasts #GEGNORTX, #ISTECert, #LFAcademy25, ISTE+ASCD Community Leader she/her/hers

Two women standing and the slide showing do more, do less, do better, do different
“A POP is ‘a persistent, contextualized, and specific issue embedded in the work of a professional practitioner, the addressing of which has the potential to result in improved understanding, experience, and outcomes,’” Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), 2016.
Glowing signs for Welcome to LFNTX! Let's Glow
IRL DFW #CoffeeEDU, all educators welcome! September 20, 11:15 - 12:15, Milk N' Tea (The Shops at Willow Bend)
Zoom squares with Lydia, Kathryn, Kerry, Erika, Jen, Amy, Mantha, Marvia, Norma
Jamie, Andrea, Kim, Kathryn at #ISTELive + #ASCDAnnual Central
"By practicing inward curiosity, we become more conscious about important aspects of our life, such as how we want to spend our time, what we value, or how to care for ourselves." (Scott Shigeoka, Seek)
10 friends at CoffeeEDU seated around a table at a restaurant
I'm presenting Tuesday, June 17th 10:30 AM Reimagining PL with a Gathering Approach; 2:45 PM Expanding Professional Learning: Fresh Ideas Beyond Traditional PL #LFTX25
Zoom screen with Erika, Kathryn, Lydia, Meredith, Sylvia, Amy L, Roxanne, Marvia, Amy F.
large group of educators collaborating around tables - working on applying work from today's PL session
Zoom window showing multiple people holding up coffee mugs and pets! Roxanne, Kathryn, Lydia, Melanie, Amy, Kerry, Marilyn, Erika, Mason, Marvia, Jen, Danielle
Virtual #CoffeeEDU, all educators welcome, Saturday, Feb. 15, 11am-12pm CST, bit.ly/DFWCoffeeEDUSite, illustration with zoom screen, books, and latte nearby
Curiosity Collective - I'm in! Along with a book cover of "Tiny Experiments" - Ephemeral Coaching Cohort
GEG-NORTX TCEA Meetu Up Monday, Feb. 3, Solar Atrium 9:30 AM CT
Screenshot with example of Canva AI sort - white board with sticky notes and grouped categories.
Zoom screen showing Lydia, Kathryn, Roxanne, Erika, Amy, Marvia, Kerry, Danielle, Janalle, Mason, Jen, Knikole
Designing with Learner Personas in Mind, #LFTXLearns, LFTX logo
Virtual #CoffeeEDU, Saturday, Jan. 18, 11-12 CST, EDUFriends, illustration of laptop, coffee, book, looking out on a snowy scene
Festive photo of Kathryn, Lydia, Roxanne, Erika, Marvia, Mantha, Mama Marvia, Kerry
conference ballroom showing educators working at their round tables.
Teacher Happier quotes and numbers 37% more productive 23% more energetic 3x more creative
Lego block with 4 levels of engagement C-P-M-E and Power of Moments written on it
Box with our session WHYs written on it
Name tags for Kathryn at Learning Forward Academy
Elevating Learning Through the Power of Words, book and lightbulb icon
How does our goals, outcomes, theory of change, logic model, evaluation plan all fit together? Based on Joellen Killion’s work in evaluating impact of professional learning
Idea Exchange: AI-Enhanced PL Design, Tuesday, December 10th, 9:30 - 10th. Listen to an audio overview by Google NotebookLM, Kathryn Laster, she/her/hers, Refined Learning Designs
Book THE Al ASSIST Strategies for Integrating Al into the Very Human Act of Teaching by NATHAN LANG-RAAD
GEG-NORTX Welcome screen. We are GRATEFUL for you, and we are GRATEFUL for Google Goodies. Zoom squares showing Roxanne, Kathryn, Lydia, Monica, and Knikole
Photo of group of educators around a large table