Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »