Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What was it like being a small farmer in the 1700s? Follow a tour group [...] »
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.
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Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past.
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Quantitative data, although seemingly daunting and impersonal, can help you [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »