Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
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 [...] »