Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »