Her interests are vocabulary learning and teacher professional development in culturally diverse settings. Recent projects include work with fifth- through eighth-grade teachers and their students in a small urban school and work with teen youth and volunteers in an after school program at WordPlay Cincy, a non-profit creative writing and learning center. Her recent publications include Literacy Teacher Education Online: Tools, Techniques, and Transformations (with L. Clarke; Teachers College Press) and Teaching Academic Vocabulary K-8: Effective Practices Across the Curriculum (with C. Blachowicz, P. Fisher, & D. Ogle; Guilford).