Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner visits the original Franklin D. [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Trying to promote more productive and engaging discussions?
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Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »