Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson's ' [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
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 [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »