She provides teacher training courses and specializes in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy as well as ESOL and Bilingual Education. Her work in U.S. schools as a supervisor, consultant, and researcher have all been guided by her own experiences as an immigrant student and as a bilingual elementary teacher in both urban and rural settings. Her teaching and research focuses on immigration issues, transnational education, critical pedagogy, sociolinguistics, and applying communities’ funds of knowledge in schools.