Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
What do slave receipts reveal? Ever considered using similar documents to [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
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Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »