She teaches courses in language assessment, second language reading/writing, and second language learning. She coordinates the K-12 ESL Endorsement program in teacher education and is co-director of EL Bridge, a program to support mathematics, science and special education teachers in working with English Learners. She has been an English language educator in a variety of programs from community literacy, pre-K, to university ESL in Texas, Ohio, Iowa, and Latvia. Her research has been published in such journals as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Testing, and Language Assessment Quarterly. Her second book with University of Michigan Press, Assessment Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching, was released in 2015.