Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
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 [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »