Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »