Her research interests include school-university research partnerships, equitable access to academic literacy, critical literacy, and the value of practitioner research in teachers’ professional development. Pat has also published several articles based on collaborative research projects with classroom teachers in urban public schools. Most recently, Patricia has coauthored with Curt Dudley-Marling A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Readers (2004) and A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Writers (2009).