Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
See this Flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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 [...] »