Meet The O’Kelleys

This Wednesday, September 20, on Crucial Conversations about Cognitive Diversity, Maria Kennedy will host the O’Kelley family, known among advocates and members of the twice exceptional community as The O’Kelley Lab because of their innovative work in the field.

Full disclosure, I was lucky enough to have Jordan O’Kelley as a student in an seventh grade humanities class at Bridges Academy. At 13, he helped me redefine the teaching experience by reprioritizing the curriculum, and make our class more effective, by putting fun on top of the to-do list. I still watch a hilarious documentary he made for a lesson on the joys of failure where he tries to teach his mother, the fabulous Harri O’Kelley, how to use the Internet.