Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
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 [...] »