Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
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 [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »