Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
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Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »