Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
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 students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »