Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
What questions should you ask when viewing maps as historical evidence?
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Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
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 [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »