Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »