Colleen Kessler

Colleen Kessler is an educational consultant, gifted specialist, author, and international speaker who focuses on supporting gifted and neurodivergent children and their families. She holds a B.S. in elementary education and an M.Ed. in gifted studies and spent more than a decade as a gifted intervention specialist teaching and advocating for gifted and twice-exceptional students before transitioning to full-time writing and consulting. Kessler is the founder of the Raising Lifelong Learners website and podcast and of The Learner’s Lab, an online community for homeschooling families with differently wired kids.

Kessler is the author of more than a dozen books for parents, teachers, and children, often emphasizing hands-on learning, creativity, science, nature, and homeschooling differently wired kids. Her works include The Homeschool Advantage: A Child-Focused Approach to Raising Lifelong Learners, as well as titles such as Hands-On Ecology, 100 Backyard Activities That Are the Dirtiest, Coolest, Creepy-Crawliest Ever!, Raising Creative Kids, and Raising Resilient Sons. She also homeschools her own gifted