Jacob Bruno is executive vice president of Learning and Improvement Services at NWEA. Jacob has more than two decades of experience in teaching, professional learning, coaching, and addressing teaching, learning, and education policy issues across multiple areas of emphasis, including formative assessment, assessment literacy, mathematics, and English language learners. His foundational work has been with students coping with trauma, neglect, and severe abuse, and he has channeled his passion for serving those students, and the educators and families who support them, into all other aspects of his professional life.