Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »