Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
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 [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Teaching in Action
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »