Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
[...] »Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »