Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
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 [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
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Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
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 [...] »