Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »