She began her career teaching elementary school students in multilingual urban and suburban settings. Currently, she equips elementary school teachers to teach children (K-8) how to communicate at high levels through reading and writing. Kim's research interests include the development of teacher knowledge, language and literacy. Her work has been published in professional journals including The Reading Teacher, Teacher Education Quarterly and Teachers College Record, and she has co-authored chapters in Learning to Teach Reading: Setting the Research Agenda and Translating Theory and Research into Educational Practice. Kim has also served on the Reading Panel for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing and as an advisor to Tenth Planet Explorations in the development of multimedia curricula.