Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Teach students how to utilize primary sources with this game from [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
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 [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »