Jo is former principal and senior professional development associate who now delivers professional development services to schools and districts throughout the United States. She is a highly experienced leadership coach and has coached educational leaders at every level, from district administrators and principals to teacher leaders and instructional coaches. Jo also has experience supervising and mentoring elementary, middle, and high school principals. Her work with principals and instructional coaches has helped bring alignment of professional development and quality instruction to schools with a diverse student population. Her areas of expertise include standards, formative assessment, Performance Assessments, curriculum and assessment design.

Jo is a contributing author to REAL-TIME Decisions, Educators Using FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT to Change Lives NOW! She wrote the chapter on leadership coaching for the 90/90/90 School Improvement Notebook and co-authored The Blueprint for Educational Excellence, an objective assessment for school districts to clarify the gap between expectations and reality.