Focus on Faculty: John Kelly
John Kelly is Chair of the Upper Division History Department.
View John Kelly in this week's Focus on Faculty video on the CasadySchoolLife YouTube Channel: Focus on Faculty - John Kelly.
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Casady students know Mr. Kelly as an easygoing, encouraging, and bow tie-wearing faculty member. Before embarking on his teaching career, Mr. Kelly had an impressive student career, earning his Bachelor's Degree in History from Cornell University, a Master's Degree in History from the University of Kentucky, and a Master's in Education from Harvard.
In his first years after college, Mr. Kelly spent six years in Bulgaria teaching at a highly competitive school. He then returned stateside to teach in a Boston public school, followed by a boarding school in Maine, and then an independent day school in New Orleans, which he fondly compares to Casady. He joined Casady's faculty in 2006 and has been teaching history classes to our ninth through 12th graders ever since.
Mr. Kelly loves the beginning of Casady's school year, and he says the first all-school pep rally always stands out to him from all other events so he likes to try to prepare his freshmen students for the excitement of the event.
"I teach a lot of freshmen," Mr. Kelly said, "So days before the rally I tell them 'to be ready.' But when the cheerleaders do the cheer that asks 'Freshmen, Freshmen, are you ready?' they never are."
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