Most of my work focuses on teacher professional development and school reform. I am particularly interested in how student and teacher learning can be enhanced through the professionalization of the teaching profession. My work focuses on how technology can be used as a change agent - both in the classroom and in professional development activities. My research has ranged from developing a framework for professional development for teachers who use problem-based simulations in their classrooms to the design of tools to support teacher learning in online problem-based learning environments.

My current research is tightly linked to Design Experiments. I am working to build a model of rural school reform through a series of in-classroom, extended research opportunities. The schools I work with allow me to come into the classrooms, work with the students and teachers and learn about school reform from the inside out and from the outside in. The work evolves with every classroom visit - but remains tied to the initial theoretically-based plan. Through these ongoing naturalistic 'experiments,' I hope to find some common threads that will help develop understanding of how to "do" school reform. At the same time, I am also involved in the development of tools and frameworks to support adults engaged in online learning. Here, too, the design experiment framework is critical as there is no way to understand the systems without putting real learners in them and examine what happens.