Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »