Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »