Her teaching and scholarship focus on pre-service science and mathematics teacher preparation, exemplary teachers, and learning by under-represented youth in science and math classrooms, including youth with exceptionalities and second language learners in regular education classrooms. She co-authored a paper with Jamie Mitchell ’10, “Descriptive Inquiry in the Throes of Learning to Teach: Can Prospective Teachers Learn to Teach and Study their Teaching Closely?” that won the Association of Science Teacher Education 2012: Award IV: Innovation in Teaching Science Teachers paper.