Her teaching focuses on educational foundations as well as teaching and learning in inclusive, learner-centered environments. Her scholarship is centrally concerned with teacher quality in high-need urban schools. Her recent work includes a multiple case study of how contextual factors shape the classroom instruction of experienced teachers; an exploratory study looking at the influence of new teacher certification policies on pre-service teachers enrolled in urban teacher preparation programs; and a mixed-methods longitudinal study examining an urban teacher residency program and its influence on teaching and learning.