Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
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Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
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 [...] »
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 [...] »