Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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 [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »