Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Virginia Tech’s short video shows how to analyze primary sources and put [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »