With fellow B.C. elementary and secondary school teachers Susan Close and Linda Wingren, Brownlie has collaborated on strategies to promote learning. They've written Reacher for Higher Thought and Tomorrow's Classroom Today, designed for teachers. With Catherine Feniak and Leyton Schnellert she has co-written Student Diversity, 2nd Edition (Pembroke, 2006). With Judith King, she has co-written Learning in Safe Schools: Creating Classrooms Where All Students Belong (Pembroke 2011, 2nd edition).

[BCBW 2011] "Education"