She is the recipient of a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, which helped support this research, and she also received the 2009 Albert J. Harris Award for her Research in the Teaching of English article “When Reading It Wrong Is Getting It Right: Shared Evaluation Pedagogy Among Struggling Fifth Grade Readers.” Her research focuses on how students make meaning from text in conversation with others and how teachers can better facilitate talk that makes authentic room for student voices.