She is a former member of several educator professional learning communities focusing on student improvement in areas of reading, writing, and presentation. Her interest is in developing the concept of professional learning communities within the secondary classroom with focus given to relationship development and increasing student desire to become lifelong learners. She is an educator interested in secondary teacher preparation and examines the effectiveness of developing secondary student professional learning communities within the high school classroom scenario. She focuses on expanding the project-based learning collaboration structure into developed relationships that exceed the classroom boundaries.