Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »