Joan Kelley is a former teacher and mother of three adult children and is on a mission to help parents make sure their children become strong readers.
Because she was a stay-at-home mom for about 10 years, she spent a lot of time volunteering in schools and taking part in school committees related to educational issues.
When her youngest in 2nd grade, she went back to school to get her masters in Education in Language and Literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
After graduation, she taught reading for a few years then spent over a decade at Harvard Graduate School of Education doing research and working with school districts across the country on how to create classroom settings that are rigorous enough to grow and develop strong readers.
In 2018, she started a company to help parents understand what it takes to read well, know how to support at home, and advocate for good instruction at school.
The Abound Parenting app launched in 2019. It’s the first reading app that is designed for parents to use easily and is focused on talk at home. Most importantly, it doesn’t put kids in front of yet, another screen.