In addition, she is the coordinator of Cortland’s Urban Recruitment of Educators (C.U.R.E) program, a comprehensive program designed to prepare qualified teachers for work in high need urban schools. A former middle school teacher in Philadelphia, her research interests include the nature of support for new teachers in urban schools, urban teacher education, and teacher research. Recent publications include “Finding Freedom in Dialectic Inquiry: New Teachers’ Responses to Silencing,” Teachers College Record, April 2009.