Dr. Joanne K. Monroe is a Director of Curriculum and Instruction for a  School District in New Jersey. She has previously served as a district language arts/social studies supervisor, and as an Instructional Specialist for the New Jersey State Department of Education. She taught high school English for twelve years. Joanne is a past president of the New Jersey Reading Association.  She has served as an adjunct instructor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers and at Rider University. She is a co-author of Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers 3-6, published in 2002 by Stenhouse Publishers. More recent publications include "What Expert Teachers in the Intermediate Grades Need to Know and Be Able to Do in the Teaching of Literacy" in the August 2003 issue of The LSS Review (a publication of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory) and "Questions Teachers Ask About Struggling Readers" in the October 2003 issue of The Reading Teacher.