Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
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Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »