Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Teaching in Action
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »