Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »