Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking

What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »

Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »

How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »

Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »

Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action

Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
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Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources

Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »

National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks

Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »

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 [...] »

The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »