She served as Director of the Strategic Learning Center for five years. She has directed or co-directed grants, including Tiered Approaches for Improving the Writing Proficiency of High School students and Kansas High-Incidence Preparation Project(KIP) Special Education Preservice Training Improvement. She is president-elect of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children, serves as book reviewer for Prentice Hall and Simon and Schuster, and is field reviewer for several publications.