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Nominations Open for Gilder Lehrman Teacher of the Year Award!
Know a K-6 educator who goes above and beyond in teaching U.S. history? [...] »
Anthony Pellegrino: Let the Music Play!...in Our Classrooms
Teach with punk, hip hop, and classic rock with these suggestions from [...] »
Joe Jelen on Document Cameras
You don't have a smartboard, but overheard projectors aren't quite flexible [...] »
Jennifer Orr on Teaching Thanksgiving
How do you broach the complicated issues surrounding Thanksgiving with early [...] »
Finding Professional Development
It's never too early to start considering professional development. What [...] »
Elizabeth Schaefer on the Interactive Declaration of Independence
Eighth-grade U.S. history teacher Elizabeth Schaefer "warps" the Declaration [...] »
Memorializing Veterans: Teaching with Place
What do memorials say about history and how it's remembered? On Veterans Day [...] »
National Archives Launches DocsTeach
Choose from more than 3,000 primary sources and seven activity modules to [...] »
Amy Trenkle's Columbus in the Capital
Come Columbus Day, DC 8th-grade teacher Amy Trenkle introduces her class to [...] »
Jennifer Orr on Questioning Columbus
First-grade teacher Jennifer Orr answers the question, how do you teach when [...] »