Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Every town has a scattering of historical markers and statues. Discover what [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »