Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Diaries give a personal view of historical events. Historian Peter Hahn [...] »
What is the key line in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address? [...] »
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
Teaching in Action
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »