Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »