Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »