I pull from a variety of resources, programs, authors, and publishers, including Lucy Calkins (and the Teachers College), Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, Lucy Calkins, Jennifer Serravallo, Jan Richardson, Illustrative Math, and Responsive Classroom. I use resources published from Heinemann, Scholastic, National Geographic, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill.

I practice a balanced workshop approach to instruction with small groups, simply meaning that students learn the subjects in various ways. Whole-group, small-group, pairs, and individual learning with multiple instructional strategies give students a variety of ways to explore concepts.