Her main research interests are technology integration in elementary classrooms and co-teaching with pre-service and in-service teachers. Before working at the university level, she taught elementary school for sixteen years. She completed her Ed. D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Wesleyan University in 2015. She received her M.A. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from California State University-Bakersfield in 2005, and her B.S. degree in Elementary Education in 1989 from Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota.