Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Explore the SOCC analysis technique with this great website.
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Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »