Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »