Joanne Picone-Zocchia is Vice President of Learner-Centered Initiatives. She facilitates work for schools, districts, regions, and states, focusing on teacher induction, portfolio assessment, and standards-based curriculum and assessment design. In addition, Joanne is actively engaged in exploring connections between systems thinking skills and processes and issues of systemic education reform. She assists schools and school leaders in strategic planning, visioning, restructuring, and organizational development. A teacher for twenty-two years, her background includes elementary, secondary, and special education.

Joanne is also the Vice President of Communities for Learning: Leading lasting change®, where her work includes facilitating a framework designed to support schoolorganizations as they explore, develop, and deepen their capacity to engage in sustainable improvement initiatives. She has also developed a curriculum for training and certifying others as facilitators of this framework.

A published curriculum designer and author, Joanne has coauthored the article "Using Curriculum and Gap Analysis Maps to Assess What Teachers Do" and is the primary author of the book Supporting Mathematical Learning: Effective Instruction, Assessment and Student Activities, K–5, published by Jossey-Bass. Her most recent book, Changing the Way You Teach, Improving the Way Students Learn, coauthored with Giselle Martin-Kniep, was published by ASCD in 2009.