Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
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 [...] »
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »