Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
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 [...] »
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 [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »