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Kelly Edwards

About Kelly

Kelly Edwards is the founder of the 90-Minute School Day™ and Day In the Life Community. She helps parents, educators, and community leaders reimagine learning through the lens of nervous system safety, connection, and deschooling — particularly for families raising neurodivergent children navigating burnout, anxiety, and school refusal.

Kelly’s work draws on neuroscience, attachment theory, and her own experience homeschooling her neurodivergent children, including the years she spent finding her way out of the school-at-home model toward something that actually worked for her family. She brings both the research and the lived experience to every stage she stands on.

She has spoken at homeschool conferences across the country, presented on global virtual stages, contributed to signature courses in the PDA parent community, and appeared on more than fifteen podcasts in the homeschooling and neurodivergent parenting space.

What Sets Kelly Apart

Kelly brings something that most speaking rosters are missing: a speaker who has lived the experience of the families in your audience, studied the research that explains it, and built a practical framework out of both.

Her talks are story-rich and grounded, honest about the complexity of raising and educating neurodivergent children, and calibrated to leave audiences with something they can actually use, not just inspiration that evaporates on the drive home.

If your event serves home educating families, parents of neurodivergent children, or educators and community leaders working in that space, Kelly’s work belongs on your stage.

Audience Takeaway

Regardless of format or topic, audiences leave Kelly’s sessions with:

  • A clearer understanding of what neurodivergent children actually need from their learning environment and why conventional approaches so often backfire
  • Practical tools they can bring home and use in the week ahead, not abstract principles they have to translate themselves.
  • A shift in how they see themselves as parents: less like failing teachers and more like capable adults doing genuinely complex work.
  • Language for experiences they’ve been living without being able to name. For many parents of high-needs children, is itself a relief.

Topics

  • The 90-Minute School Day™
  • Homeschooling Neurodivergence: When Resistance and Burnout Are In the Room
  • Deschooling for Parents: Releasing What You Inherited About Education
  • Neurodiversity-Affirming Education: Seeing the Whole Child
  • You Are Enough: Trusting Yourself as a Homeschooling Parent

Testimonials

“Kelly really challenges parents to check our assumptions. This is important, because some kids cannot learn and grow in the confines of the traditional school system. Others actually experience additional problems and damage from being in these systems.”
Dr. Nicole Beurkens
“As a fellow homeschooling parent who’s underlying values match many of mine, I wanted to have Kelly on the show. And of course, Kelly brought a huge amount of value, tools and personal experience.”
Robyn Robertson
“Asking myself the four questions Kelly asked was helpful because it gave me the chance to slow down and think through why I’m saying ‘No.’”
Khadija Amjad, M. Ed, Ed.S

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