Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »