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

If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »

Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »

This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »

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

Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »

An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources

Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.
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Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks

Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »

Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »

Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »

Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »

Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »