Jessica Hockett has been a full-time education consultant for 12 years, specializing in interactive and differentiated instruction, standards-aligned curriculum, performance task design, classroom grouping practices, and program evaluation. Her work with numerous schools, districts, departments, and organizations has supported a wide range of initiatives centered on improving teacher and student learning.

Hockett teaches graduate courses in the University of Virginia Curry School of Education Online Masters programs. She is the coauthor, with Kristina Doubet, of Differentiation in Middle and High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners and, with Chester E. Finn Jr., of Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools (Princeton University Press, 2012), a big-picture look at a high-performing but understudied niche of U.S. education.