Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
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 [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »