Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Chandra Manning analyzes Civil War letters from black and white [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor [...] »
Daunted by teaching the Bill of Rights and its complex vocabulary to [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »