Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »