Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Educators tour the NMAAHC exhibit "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Close observation and an inquisitive mind are all the tools you need to [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »