Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
High school teacher Joe Jelen combines roleplaying and critical analysis—by [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »