Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »