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

Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »

Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »

One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »

Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »

Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Teaching in Action

Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »

Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources

So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »

Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks

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

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

Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »

Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »

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