His work seeks to improve learning opportunities for minoritized children, particularly those from Mexican and Central American immigrant families. His work addresses cultural dimensions of social and academic learning, home-school collaborations, teacher-child interactions, mixed methods, and design-based approaches. Bryant has worked as a school psychologist in urban schools in Arizona, and studied literacy learning in different communities and school types in Mexico. Previously he was a research associate for the National Task Force on Early Education for Hispanics, a Fulbright scholar in Mexico, and an Institute of Education Sciences postdoc fellow at the University of Oregon. His work appears in various research journals, and in 2013 he co-edited Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi-national Improvement (Teachers College Press, Columbia University).