Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »