As a young, gifted student, Joyce attended New York City Public Schools. A student in a two-year Special Progress (SP) program, she skipped the eighth grade. Continually surrounded by exceptional students in high school and at a highly competitive college, she fully understands the many challenges experienced by talented and gifted children and adults.

In her career as an educator, Joyce taught classes in two and three-year SP programs and high school honors and Advanced Placement courses. In addition, she taught at the Beacon School—the first public school in NYC planned for gifted students—in its first year of operation. She designed the school's original nine-week interdisciplinary curriculum later presented before the New York Chapter of Brown University's Coalition for Essential Schools. At the Beacon School, she learned the value of providing opportunities for students to self-select their projects, conduct field research, and demonstrate their learning in one, or more, of the intelligences identified by Harvard professor, Howard Gardner.

During her years as a reading and language arts consultant and adjunct professor in Master of Arts programs for elementary and secondary teachers, Joyce focused her efforts on sharing effective teaching strategies with both beginning and veteran teachers. She researched and implemented a building-based peer tutoring program and designed a Civil War interdisciplinary unit presented before teachers at the Connecticut Reading Association's annual conference.

Most recently, as an affiliate faculty member teaching Freshman Composition I and II, she honed techniques for assessing and evaluating student performance and learned the importance of differentiating course content for students at all levels. In the summer of 2011, Joyce began teaching at the Summer Institute for the Gifted at Yale University. Now fully committed to her private consulting company, WriteRight!, she plans to continue writing for an audience of parents and teachers of talented and gifted children.