Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Teaching in Action
Teacher Bill Kendrat demonstrates the techniques he uses to draw students in [...] »
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Using Primary Sources
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »