Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »