Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Tour Monticello with TAH teachers and learn about the history behind Thomas [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
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 [...] »
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 [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »