Areas of Interest

• Promoting language and literacy development in early childhood settings.
• Teacher training in early childhood settings.
• Continuing professional development models.
• Coaching and feedback models to support teacher skill development.
• Video modeling as support for teacher skill development.
• Early intervention with children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Keyword Interest

• Language and Literacy Development
• Professional Development
• Coaching and Feedback Models
• Inclusive Environments
• Diverse Cultural/ Linguistic Backgrounds

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Exploring the effects of three approaches to teaching language and literacy skills to very high risk students attending Head Start.

Project:
Effects of coaching and data based feedback on teacher use of target skills.

Former Experience

• Teacher of special education and general education in preshool, and grades three through five.

Education

• M.A. (2005): Reading Education, University of Virginia
• B.A. (2000): Elementary Education, Comprehensive Special Education, Vanderbilt University